Changelog

0.7.2

release-date:

2025-04-06

  • Drop Python 3.8 support

  • Drop Django 5.0 support

  • Add Python 3.13 support

  • Add Django 5.1 and 5.2 support

  • Clean up tests

    • Use override_settings

    • Stop using assertTrue(response is not None)

    • Add missing tests

  • Rewrite simple backend

    • It now supports ETags as well as If-Modified-Since

    • Use Django’s own conditional request features rather than maintain our own

  • Fix coverage report

  • Move to Codeberg

  • Introduce SENDFILE_CHECK_FILE_EXISTS setting

    • This allows users to host files in places where the Django app cannot read them, if the backend supports it

    • Add content_length parameter to sendfile() to manually set Content-Length header

0.7.1

release-date:

2024-02-17

  • Drop Python 3.7 support

  • Drop Django 3.2 and 4.0 support

  • Add Python 3.11 and 3.12 support

  • Add Django 4.2 and 5.0 support

0.7.0

release-date:

2022-08-08

  • Fix reflected file download vulnerability

  • Add support for spaces in filenames

0.6.1

release-date:

2021-01-18

  • Fixed Django 4.0 compatibility

  • Add support for Python 3.10

  • Remove support for Python 3.5 and 3.6

  • Remove support for Django 3.1

0.6.0

release-date:

2020-06-17

  • Fixed issue where django-sendfile could serve any file, even if it was outside SENDFILE_ROOT. SENDFILE_ROOT is now required for all backends.

0.5.1

release-date:

2019-12-30

  • Fix issue with versioneer not being updated about the package name change

    • tox now does a proper sdist and install to avoid this in future

0.5.0

release-date:

2019-12-30

  • Rename Python package from sendfile to django_sendfile

    • This will require changing SENDFILE_BACKEND, INSTALLED_APPS, and any imports

  • Remove code used to support Python 2.7

  • Add support for the latest versions of Django and Python

Earlier Releases

Sorry, we didn’t keep a changelog prior to version 0.5.0!