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• Django 2.2 is no longer supported. #8662
• Django 4.1 compatibility. #8591
• Add --api-version CLI option to generateschema management command. #8663
• Enforce is_valid(raise_exception=False) as a keyword-only argument. #7952
• Stop calling set_context on Validators. #8589
• Return NotImplemented from ErrorDetails.__ne__. #8538
• Don't evaluate DateTimeField.default_timezone when a custom timezone is set. #8531
• Make relative URLs clickable in Browseable API. #8464
• Support ManyRelatedField falling back to the default value when the attribute specified by dot notation doesn't exist. Matches ManyRelatedField.get_attribute to Field.get_attribute. #7574
• Make schemas.openapi.get_reference public. #7515
• Make ReturnDict support dict union operators on Python 3.9 and later. #8302
• Update throttling to check if request.user is set before checking if the user is authenticated. #8370

• Revert schema naming changes with function based @api_view. #8297

• Django 4.0 compatability. #8178
• Add max_length and min_length options to ListSerializer. #8165
• Add get_request_serializer and get_response_serializer hooks to AutoSchema. #7424
• Fix OpenAPI representation of null-able read only fields. #8116
• Respect UNICODE_JSON setting in API schema outputs. #7991
• Fix for RemoteUserAuthentication. #7158
• Make Field constructors keyword-only. #7632

This is the last Django REST Framework release that will support Python 2. Be sure to upgrade to Python 3 before upgrading to Django REST Framework 3.10.

• Adjusted the compat check for django-guardian to allow the last guardian version (v1.4.9) compatible with Python 2. #6613

See Release Notes for details.

Change Notes: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/community/release-notes/#39x-series

Release announcement: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/community/3.9-announcement/

Change Notes: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/community/release-notes/#39x-series

Point release for 3.8.x series

• Fix read_only + default unique_together validation. #5922
• authtoken.views import coreapi from rest_framework.compat, not directly. #5921
• Docs: Add missing argument 'detail' to Route #5920

• Use old url_name behavior in route decorators #5915

  For list_route and detail_route maintain the old behavior of url_name, basing it on the url_path instead of the function name.