django-simple-history

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django-simple-history stores Django model state on every create/update/delete.

This app supports the following combinations of Django and Python:

Django Python
1.11 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
2.0 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
2.1 3.5, 3.6, 3.7

Changes

2.7.0 (2019-01-16)

  • Add support for using chained manager method and save/delete keyword argument (gh-507)
  • Added management command clean_duplicate_history to remove duplicate history entries (gh-483)
  • Updated most_recent to work with excluded_fields (gh-477)
  • Fixed bug that prevented self-referential foreign key from using 'self' (gh-513)
  • Added ability to track custom user with explicit custom history_user_id_field (gh-511)
  • Don’t resolve relationships for history objects (gh-479)
  • Reorganization of docs (gh-510)

2.6.0 (2018-12-12)

  • Add app parameter to the constructor of HistoricalRecords (gh-486)
  • Add custom_model_name parameter to the constructor of HistoricalRecords (gh-451)
  • Fix header on history pages when custom site_header is used (gh-448)
  • Modify pre_create_historical_record to pass history_instance for ease of customization (gh-421)
  • Raise warning if HistoricalRecords(inherit=False) is in an abstract model (gh-341)
  • Ensure custom arguments for fields are included in historical models’ fields (gh-431)
  • Add german translations (gh-484)
  • Add extra_context parameter to history_form_view (gh-467)
  • Fixed bug that prevented next_record and prev_record to work with custom manager names (gh-501)

2.5.1 (2018-10-19)

  • Add '+' as the history_type for each instance in bulk_history_create (gh-449)
  • Add support for history_change_reason for each instance in bulk_history_create (gh-449)
  • Add history_change_reason in the history list view under the Change reason display name (gh-458)
  • Fix bug that caused failures when using a custom user model (gh-459)

2.5.0 (2018-10-18)

  • Add ability to cascade delete historical records when master record is deleted (gh-440)
  • Added Russian localization (gh-441)

2.4.0 (2018-09-20)

  • Add pre and post create_historical_record signals (gh-426)
  • Remove support for django_mongodb_engine when converting AutoFields (gh-432)
  • Add support for Django 2.1 (gh-418)

2.3.0 (2018-07-19)

  • Add ability to diff HistoricalRecords (gh-244)

2.2.0 (2018-07-02)

  • Add ability to specify alternative user_model for tracking (gh-371)
  • Add util function bulk_create_with_history to allow bulk_create with history saved (gh-412)

2.1.1 (2018-06-15)

  • Fixed out-of-memory exception when running populate_history management command (gh-408)
  • Fix TypeError on populate_history if excluded_fields are specified (gh-410)

2.1.0 (2018-06-04)

  • Add ability to specify custom history_reason field (gh-379)
  • Add ability to specify custom history_id field (gh-368)
  • Add HistoricalRecord instance properties prev_record and next_record (gh-365)
  • Can set admin methods as attributes on object history change list template (gh-390)
  • Fixed compatibility of >= 2.0 versions with old-style middleware (gh-369)

2.0 (2018-04-05)

  • Added Django 2.0 support (gh-330)
  • Dropped support for Django<=1.10 (gh-356)
  • Fix bug where history_view ignored user permissions (gh-361)
  • Fixed HistoryRequestMiddleware which hadn’t been working for Django>1.9 (gh-364)

1.9.1 (2018-03-30)

  • Use get_queryset rather than model.objects in history_view. (gh-303)
  • Change ugettext calls in models.py to ugettext_lazy
  • Resolve issue where model references itself (gh-278)
  • Fix issue with tracking an inherited model (abstract class) (gh-269)
  • Fix history detail view on django-admin for abstract models (gh-308)
  • Dropped support for Django<=1.6 and Python 3.3 (gh-292)

1.9.0 (2017-06-11)

  • Add --batchsize option to the populate_history management command. (gh-231)
  • Add ability to show specific attributes in admin history list view. (gh-256)
  • Add Brazilian Portuguese translation file. (gh-279)
  • Fix locale file packaging issue. (gh-280)
  • Add ability to specify reason for history change. (gh-275)
  • Test against Django 1.11 and Python 3.6. (gh-276)
  • Add excluded_fields option to exclude fields from history. (gh-274)

1.8.2 (2017-01-19)

  • Add Polish locale.
  • Add Django 1.10 support.

1.8.1 (2016-03-19)

  • Clear the threadlocal request object when processing the response to prevent test interactions. (gh-213)

1.8.0 (2016-02-02)

  • History tracking can be inherited by passing inherit=True. (gh-63)

1.7.0 (2015-12-02)

  • Add ability to list history in admin when the object instance is deleted. (gh-72)
  • Add ability to change history through the admin. (Enabled with the SIMPLE_HISTORY_EDIT setting.)
  • Add Django 1.9 support.
  • Support for custom tables names. (gh-196)

1.6.3 (2015-07-30)

  • Respect to_field and db_column parameters (gh-182)

1.6.2 (2015-07-04)

  • Use app loading system and fix deprecation warnings on Django 1.8 (gh-172)
  • Update Landscape configuration

1.6.1 (2015-04-21)

  • Fix OneToOneField transformation for historical models (gh-166)
  • Disable cascading deletes from related models to historical models
  • Fix restoring historical instances with missing one-to-one relations (gh-162)

1.6.0 (2015-04-16)

  • Add support for Django 1.8+
  • Deprecated use of CustomForeignKeyField (to be removed)
  • Remove default reverse accessor to auth.User for historical models (gh-121)

1.5.4 (2015-01-03)

  • Fix a bug when models have a ForeignKey with primary_key=True
  • Do NOT delete the history elements when a user is deleted.
  • Add support for latest
  • Allow setting a reason for change. [using option changeReason]

1.5.3 (2014-11-18)

  • Fix migrations while using order_with_respsect_to (gh-140)
  • Fix migrations using south
  • Allow history accessor class to be overridden in register()

1.5.2 (2014-10-15)

  • Additional fix for migrations (gh-128)

1.5.1 (2014-10-13)

  • Removed some incompatibilities with non-default admin sites (gh-92)
  • Fixed error caused by HistoryRequestMiddleware during anonymous requests (gh-115 fixes gh-114)
  • Added workaround for clashing related historical accessors on User (gh-121)
  • Added support for MongoDB AutoField (gh-125)
  • Fixed CustomForeignKeyField errors with 1.7 migrations (gh-126 fixes gh-124)

1.5.0 (2014-08-17)

  • Extended availability of the as_of method to models as well as instances.
  • Allow history_user on historical objects to be set by middleware.
  • Fixed error that occurs when a foreign key is designated using just the name of the model.
  • Drop Django 1.3 support

1.4.0 (2014-06-29)

  • Fixed error that occurs when models have a foreign key pointing to a one to one field.
  • Fix bug when model verbose_name uses unicode (gh-76)
  • Allow non-integer foreign keys
  • Allow foreign keys referencing the name of the model as a string
  • Added the ability to specify a custom history_date
  • Note that simple_history should be added to INSTALLED_APPS (gh-94 fixes gh-69)
  • Properly handle primary key escaping in admin URLs (gh-96 fixes gh-81)
  • Add support for new app loading (Django 1.7+)
  • Allow specifying custom base classes for historical models (gh-98)

1.3.0 (2013-05-17)

  • Fixed bug when using django-simple-history on nested models package
  • Allow history table to be formatted correctly with django-admin-bootstrap
  • Disallow calling simple_history.register twice on the same model
  • Added Python 3 support
  • Added support for custom user model (Django 1.5+)

1.2.3 (2013-04-22)

  • Fixed packaging bug: added admin template files to PyPI package

1.2.1 (2013-04-22)

  • Added tests
  • Added history view/revert feature in admin interface
  • Various fixes and improvements

Oct 22, 2010

  • Merged setup.py from Klaas van Schelven - Thanks!

Feb 21, 2010

  • Initial project creation, with changes to support ForeignKey relations.