CHANGELOG.md

Changes

Next Release

Improvements

• feat: Added LogEntry.remote_port field. (#671)
• feat: Added truncate option to auditlogflush management command. (#681)
• feat: Added AUDITLOG_CHANGE_DISPLAY_TRUNCATE_LENGTH settings to keep or truncate strings of changes_display_dict property at variable length. (#684)
• Drop Python 3.8 support. (#678)
• Confirm Django 5.1 support and drop Django 3.2 support. (#677)

Fixes

• fix: Use sender instead of receiver for m2m_changed signal ID to prevent duplicate entries for models that share a related model. (#686)
• Fixed a problem when setting Value(None) in JSONField (#646)
• Fixed a problem when setting django.db.models.functions.Now() in DateTimeField (#635)

3.0.0 (2024-04-12)

Fixes

• Fixed logging problem related to django translation before logging (#624)
• Fixed manuall logging when model is not registered (#627)

Improvements

• feat: Excluding ip address when AUDITLOG_DISABLE_REMOTE_ADDR is set to True (#620)

3.0.0-beta.4 (2024-01-02)

Improvements

• feat: If any receiver returns False, no logging will be made. This can be useful if logging should be conditionally enabled / disabled (#590)
• Django: Confirm Django 5.0 support (#598)
• Django: Drop Django 4.1 support (#598)

3.0.0-beta.3 (2023-11-13)

Improvements

• Python: Confirm Python 3.12 support (#572)
• feat: thread.local replaced with ContextVar to improve context managers in Django 4.2+

Fixes

• fix: Handle ObjectDoesNotExist in evaluation of object_repr (#592)

3.0.0-beta.2 (2023-10-05)

Breaking Changes

• feat: stop deleting old log entries when a model with the same pk is created (i.e. the pk value is reused) (#559)

Fixes

• fix: only fire the post_log signal when the log is created or when there is an error in the process (#561)
• fix: don't set the correlation_id if the AUDITLOG_CID_GETTER is None (#565)

3.0.0-beta.1 (2023-08-29)

Breaking Changes

• feat: Change LogEntry.change field type to JSONField rather than TextField. This change include a migration that may take time to run depending on the number of records on your LogEntry table (#407)(#495)
• Python: Drop support for Python 3.7 (#546)
• feat: Set AuditlogHistoryField.delete_related to False by default. This is different from the default configuration of Django's GenericRelation, but we should not erase the audit log of objects on deletion by default. (#557)

Improvements

• Changes the view when it has changes in fields JSONField. The JSONField.encoder is assigned to json.dumps. (#489)
• feat: Added support for Correlation ID. (#481)
• feat: Added pre-log and post-log signals. (#483)
• feat: Make timestamp in LogEntry overwritable. (#476)
• feat: Support excluding field names globally when AUDITLOG_INCLUDE_ALL_MODELS is enabled. (#498)
• feat: Improved auto model registration to include auto-created models and exclude non-managed models, and automatically register m2m fields for models. (#550)

Fixes

• fix: Audit changes to FK fields when saved using *_id naming. (#525)
• fix: Fix a bug in audit log admin page when USE_TZ=False. (#511)
• fix: Make sure LogEntry.changes_dict() returns an empty dict instead of None when json.loads() returns None. (#472)
• fix: Always set remote_addr even if the request has no authenticated user. (#484)
• fix: Fix a bug in getting field's verbose_name when model is not accessible. (508)
• fix: Fix a bug in serialized_data with F expressions. (508)
• fix: Make log entries read-only in the admin. (#449, #556) (applied again after being reverted in 2.2.2)

2.2.2 (2023-01-16)

Fixes

• fix: revert #449 "Make log entries read-only in the admin" as it breaks deletion of any auditlogged model through the admin when AuditlogHistoryField is used. (#496)

2.2.1 (2022-11-28)

Fixes

• fix: Make log entries read-only in the admin. (#449)
• fix: Handle IPv6 addresses in X-Forwarded-For. (#457)

2.2.0 (2022-10-07)

Improvements

• feat: Add ACCESS action to LogEntry model and allow object access to be logged. (#436)
• feat: Add serialized_data field on LogEntry model. (#412)
• feat: Display the field name as it would be displayed in Django Admin or use mapping_field if available #428
• feat: New context manager disable_auditlog to turn off logging and a new setting AUDITLOG_DISABLE_ON_RAW_SAVE to disable it during raw-save operations like loaddata. #446
• Python: Confirm Python 3.11 support (#447)
• feat: Replace the django.utils.timezone.utc by datetime.timezone.utc. #448

Fixes

• fix: Foreign key values are used to check for changes in related fields instead of object representations. When changes are detected, the foreign key value is persisted in LogEntry.changes field instead of object representations. (#420)
• fix: Display created timestamp in server timezone (#404)
• fix: Handle port in remote_addr (#417)
• fix: Handle the error with AttributeError: 'OneToOneRel' error occur during a PolymorphicModel has relation with other models (#429)
• fix: Support search by custom USERNAME_FIELD (#432)

2.1.1 (2022-07-27)

Improvements

• feat: Display the diff for deleted objects in the admin (#396)
• Django: Confirm Django 4.1 support (#406)

Fixes

• fix: Pin python-dateutil to 2.7.0 or higher for compatibility with Python 3.10 (#401)

2.1.0 (2022-06-27)

Improvements

• feat: Add --before-date option to auditlogflush to support retention windows (#365)
• feat: Add db_index to the LogEntry.timestamp column (#364)
• feat: Add register model from settings (#368)
• Context manager set_actor() for use in Celery tasks (#262)
• Tracking of changes in many-to-many fields (#309)

Fixes

• Fix inconsistent changes with JSONField (#355)
• Disable add button in admin ui (#378)
• Fix n+1 query problem(#381)

2.0.0 (2022-05-09)

Improvements

• feat: enable use of replica database (delegating the choice to DATABASES_ROUTER) (#359)
• Add mask_fields argument in register to mask sensitive information when logging (#310)
• Django: Drop 2.2 support. django_jsonfield_backport is not required anymore (#370)
• Remove default_app_config configuration (#372)

Important notes

• LogEntry no longer save to same database instance is using

1.0.0 (2022-01-24)

Final

Improvements

• build: add classifiers for Python and Django
• build: replace django-jsonfield with django-jsonfield-backport (#339)
• ci: replace Travis with Github Actions
• docs: follow Jazzband guidelines (badge, how to contribute, code of conduct) (#269)
• docs: add a changelog
• docs: remove note about maintenance
• docs: update the release strategy
• docs: use the latest django LTS (3.2) to build docs
• feat: add a db index to LogEntry's action field (#236)
• feat: add the content type to resource field
• feat: add the actor username to search fields in admin
• refactor: lint the code with Black and isort
• tests: init pre-commit config
• Python: add 3.9 and 3.10 support, drop 3.5 and 3.6 support
• Django: add 3.2 (LTS) and 4.0 support, drop 3.0 and 3.1 support

Fixes

• docs: replace MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES with MIDDLEWARE
• Remove old django (< 1.9) related codes
• Replace deprecated smart_text() with smart_str()
• Replace ugettext with gettext for Django 4
• Support Django's save method update_fields kwarg (#336)
• Fix invalid escape sequence on Python 3.7

Alpha 1 (1.0a1, 2020-09-07)

Improvements

• Refactor the auditlogflush management command
• Clean up project structure
• Python: add 3.8 support, drop 2.7 and 3.4 support
• Django: add 3.0 and 3.1 support, drop 1.11, 2.0 and 2.1 support

Fixes

• Fix field choices diff
• Allow higher versions of python-dateutil than 2.6.0

0.4.8 (2019-11-12)

Improvements

• Add support for PostgreSQL 10

0.4.7 (2019-12-19)

Improvements

• Improve support multiple database (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Django: add 2.1 and 2.2 support, drop < 1.11 versions
• Python: add 3.7 support

0.4.6 (2018-09-18)

Features

• Allow AuditlogHistoryField to block cascading deletes (#172)

Improvements

• Add Python classifiers for supported Python versions (#176)
• Update README to include steps to release (#185)

Fixes

• Fix the rendering of the msg field with Django 2.0 (#166)
• Mark LogEntryAdminMixin methods output as safe where required (#167)

0.4.5 (2018-01-12)

Improvements

Added support for Django 2.0, along with a number of bug fixes.

0.4.4 (2017-11-17)

Improvements

• Use Tox to run tests
• Use Codecov to check to coverage before merging
• Django: drop 1.9 support, add 1.11 (LTS) support
• Python: tests against 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 versions
• Add python-dateutil to requirements

Fixes

• Support models with UUID primary keys (#111)
• Add management commands package to setup.py (#130)
• Add changes_display_dict property to LogEntry model to display diff in a more human readable format (#94)

0.4.3 (2017-02-16)

Fixes

• Fixes cricital bug in admin mixin making the library only usable on Django 1.11

0.4.2 (2017-02-16)

As it turns out, haste is never good. Due to the focus on quickly releasing this version a nasty bug was not spotted, which makes this version only usable with Django 1.11 and above. Upgrading to 0.4.3 is not only encouraged but most likely necessary. Apologies for the inconvenience and lacking quality control.

Improvements

• Models can be registered with decorators now

Fixes

• A lot, yes, really a lot, of fixes for the admin integration
• Flush command fixed for Django 1.10

0.4.1 (2016-12-27)

Improvements

• Improved Django Admin pages

Fixes

• Fixed multithreading issue where the wrong user was written to the log

0.4.0 (2016-08-17)

Breaking changes

• Dropped support for Django 1.7
• Updated dependencies - please check whether your project works with these higher versions

New features

• Management command for deleting all log entries
• Added admin interface (thanks, @crackjack)

Improvements

• Django: add 1.10 support

Fixes

• Solved migration error for MySQL users

0.3.3 (2016-01-23)

Fixes

• fix unregister method
• LogEntry.objects.get_for_objects works properly on PostgreSQL
• Added index in 0.3.2 no longer breaks for users with MySQL databases

Important notes

• The object_pk field is now limited to 255 chars

0.3.2 (2015-10-19)

New functionality

• Django: support 1.9

Improvements

• Enhanced performance for non-integer primary key lookups

0.3.1 (2015-07-29)

Fixes

• Auditlog data is now correctly stored in the thread.

0.3.0 (2015-07-22)

Breaking changes

• Django: drop out-of-date versions support, support 1.7+
• South is no longer supported

New functionality

• Workaround for many-to-many support
• Additional data
• Python: support 2.7 and 3.4

Improvements

• Better diffs
• Remote address is logged through middleware
• Better documentation
• Compatibility with django-polymorphic

0.2.1 (2014-07-08)

New functionality

• South compatibility for AuditlogHistoryField

0.2.0 (2014-03-08)

Although this release contains mostly bugfixes, the improvements were significant enough to justify a higher version number.

Improvements

• Signal disconnection fixed
• Model diffs use unicode strings instead of regular strings
• Tests on middleware

0.1.1 (2013-12-12)

New functionality

• Utility methods for using log entry data

Improvements

• Only save a new log entry if there are actual changes
• Better way of loading the user model in the middleware

0.1.0 (2013-10-21)

First beta release of Auditlog.