3.8-announcement.md

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Django REST framework 3.8

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The 3.8 release ...

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Funding

If you use REST framework commercially and would like to see this work continue, we strongly encourage you to invest in its continued development by signing up for a paid plan.

We'd like to say thanks in particular our premium backers, Rover, Sentry, Stream, Machinalis, and Rollbar.

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Breaking Changes

Altered behaviour of read_only plus default on Field.

#5886

read_only fields will now always be excluded from writable fields.

Previously read_only fields with a default value would use the default for create and update operations.

In order to maintain the old behaviour you may need to pass the value of read_only fields when calling save() in the view:

def perform_create(self, serializer):
    serializer.save(owner=self.request.user)

Alternatively you may override save() or create() or update() on the serialiser as appropriate.

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Boolean Composable Permissions

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Namespace Support

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Viewset actions

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Minor fixes and improvements

There are a large number of minor fixes and improvements in this release. See the release notes page for a complete listing.

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Deprecations

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What's next

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