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Store model history and view/revert changes from admin site.

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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

2.2

3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9

3.1

3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9

3.2

3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9

Getting Help

Documentation is available at https://django-simple-history.readthedocs.io/

Pull requests are welcome. Read the CONTRIBUTING file for tips on submitting a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause license.

Changes

Unreleased

3.0.0 (2021-04-16)

Breaking changes:

  • Removed support for Django 3.0

  • Removed changeReason in favor of _change_reason (see 2.10.0)

Full list of changes:

  • Removed support for Django versions prior to 2.2 (gh-652)

  • Migrate from TravisCI to Github Actions (gh-739)

  • Add Python 3.9 support (gh-745)

  • Support ignore_conflicts in bulk_create_with_history (gh-733)

  • Use asgiref when available instead of thread locals (gh-747)

  • Sort imports with isort (gh-751)

  • Queryset history.as_of speed improvements by calculating in the DB (gh-758)

  • Increase black and isort python version to 3.6 (gh-817)

  • Remove Django 3.0 support (gh-817)

  • Add Django 3.2 support (gh-817)

  • Improve French translations (gh-811)

  • Remove support for changeReason (gh-819)

2.12.0 (2020-10-14)

  • Add default date to bulk_create_with_history and bulk_update_with_history (gh-687)

  • Exclude ManyToManyFields when using bulk_create_with_history (gh-699)

  • Added --excluded_fields argument to clean_duplicate_history command (gh-674)

  • Exclude ManyToManyFields when fetching excluded fields (gh-707)

  • Use default model manager for bulk_create_with_history and bulk_update_with_history instead of objects (gh-703)

  • Add optional manager argument to bulk_update_with_history to use instead of the default manager (gh-703)

  • Add support for Django 3.1 (gh-713)

  • Fix a bug with clean_old_history command’s –days argument (gh-722)

* NOTE: This will be the last minor release before 3.0.0.

2.11.0 (2020-06-20)

  • Added clean_old_history management command (gh-675)

  • Added user_db_constraint param to history to avoid circular reference on delete (gh-676)

  • Leverages get_user from HistoricalRecords in order to set a fallback user on bulk update and bulk create (gh-677)

2.10.0 (2020-04-27)

  • Added bulk_update_with_history utility function (gh-650)

  • Add default user and default change reason to bulk_create_with_history and bulk_update_with_history (gh-653)

  • Add french translation (gh-654)

  • Start using _change_reason instead of changeReason to add change reasons to historical objects. changeReason is deprecated and will be removed in version 3.0.0 (gh-655)

2.9.0 (2020-04-23)

  • Add simple filtering if provided a minutes argument in clean_duplicate_history (gh-606)

  • Add setting to convert FileField to CharField instead of TextField (gh-625)

  • Added notes on BitBucket Pipelines (gh-627)

  • import model ContentType in SimpleHistoryAdmin using django_apps.get_model to avoid possible AppRegistryNotReady exception (gh-630)

  • Fix utils.update_change_reason when user specifies excluded_fields (gh-637)

  • Changed how now is imported from timezone (timezone module is imported now) (gh-643)

  • settings.SIMPLE_HISTORY_REVERT_DISABLED if True removes the Revert button from the history form for all historical models (gh-632))

2.8.0 (2019-12-02)

  • Fixed bulk_create_with_history support for HistoryRecords with relation_name attribute (gh-591)

  • Added support for bulk_create_with_history for databases different from PostgreSQL (gh-577)

  • Fixed DoesNotExist error when trying to get instance if object is deleted (gh-571)

  • Fix model_to_dict to detect changes in a parent model when using inherit=True (backwards-incompatible for users who were directly using previous version) (gh-576)

  • Use an iterator for clean_duplicate_history (gh-604)

  • Add support for Python 3.8 and Django 3.0 (gh-610)

2.7.3 (2019-07-15)

  • Fixed BigAutoField not mirrored as BigInt (gh-556)

  • Fixed most_recent() bug with excluded_fields (gh-561)

  • Added official Django 2.2 support (gh-555)

2.7.2 (2019-04-17)

  • Fixed ModuleNotFound issue for six (gh-553)

2.7.1 (2019-04-16)

  • Added the possibility to create a relation to the original model (gh-536)

  • Fix router backward-compatibility issue with 2.7.0 (gh-539, gh-547)

  • Fix hardcoded history manager (gh-542)

  • Replace deprecated django.utils.six with six (gh-526)

  • Allow custom_model_name parameter to be a callable (gh-489)

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)

* NOTE: This change was not backward compatible for users using routers to write history tables to a separate database from their base tables. This issue is fixed in 2.7.1.

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.

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