django-unicorn

• Fix: Some types of type annotations on a component method would cause an error when it was called #392 by nerdoc
• Add component_id, component_name, component_key to the unicorn dictionary in the template context #389 by nerdoc

• Add support for raising a ValidationError from component methods

• Fix bug where direct views were not caching the component correctly

• Defer displaying messages when an action method returns a redirect
• Prevent morphing or other changes when redirecting

• Fix bug where dictionaries in a component would generate incorrect checksums and trigger a Checksum does not match error
• Remove some serializations that was happening unnecessarily on every render
• Add Python 3.10 and Django 4.0 to test matrix

• Remove all blank spaces from JSON responses.
• Optional support for minifying response HTML with htmlmin.
• Log warning message if the component HTML doesn't appear to be well-formed (i.e. an element does not have an ending tag). #342 by liamlawless35

Breaking changes

• Bump supported Python to >=3.7.

• Fix: Handle excluding a field's attribute when the field is None.

• Fix: Handle component classes with a bool class attribute and a form_class with a BooleanField. Reported by zurtri

• Support using a context variable for a component name. #314 by robwa

• Add direct view so that components can be added directly to urls without being required to be included in a regular Django template.
• Add capability for startunicorn to created components in sub-folders (#299)[https://github.com/adamghill/django-unicorn/issues/299]

• Prefer prefetch_related to reduce database calls for many-to-many fields.

• Explicit error messages when an invalid component field is excluded
• Better support for serializing many-to-many fields which have been prefetched to reduce the number of database calls
• Support excluding many-to-many fields with javascript_exclude

• Fix: Allow components to be pickled so they can be cached.

• Include request context in component templates.

• Fix: nested field attributes for javascript_exclude.

• Support nested field attributes for javascript_exclude.

• Revert loading and dirty elements when the server returns a 304 (not modified) or a 500 error.

• More verbose error messages when components can't be loaded (#277 by nerdoc).
• More complete handling to prevent XSS attacks.

• Security fix: for CVE-2021-42053 to prevent XSS attacks (reported by Jeffallan).

Breaking changes

• responses will be HTML encoded going forward (to explicitly opt-in to previous behavior use safe)

• Fix: Handle when there are multiple apps sub-directories 273 by apoorvaeternity.