Changelog

v2.0.0

Full Changelog

We sincerely apologize for the long delay since our last release. This major version brings the package up to date with the latest Django and Python versions while removing support for end-of-life versions.

Breaking Changes

  • DROPPED support for Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9 - these versions have reached end-of-life

  • DROPPED support for Django 2.2, 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 - these versions are no longer supported by Django

  • Minimum Python version is now 3.10

  • Minimum Django version is now 4.2 (LTS)

Features

  • NEW support for Python 3.11, 3.12, and 3.13

  • NEW support for Django 4.2 (LTS), 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2

  • Removed deprecated Django features and compatibility code for better performance

Chores

  • Migrated from poetry to pyproject.toml.

  • Updated development tooling (switched from flake8/isort to ruff)

1.3.0

  • Confirm support for python 3.11-dev and django 4.0 (#26).

  • Drop support for python 3.6 and django 2.1 (#21)..

1.2.0

  • Confirm support for python 3.10 (#19).

  • Add a setting for limiting hits per single browser session (#16).

  • Respect the setting for limiting hits per IP before counting a hit (#18).

1.1.0

  • Confirm support for python 3.10-dev (#11).

  • Optimize query for saving of increased and decreased hits(#10).

  • Prevent compiling of regex for IP detection on every import of hitcount.utils (#8)

1.0.1

  • Fix saving of anonymous sessions(#4).

1.0.0

  • Bring back project to life.

  • Change in project structure
    • signals
      • delete_hit_count from hitcount.models has been moved to hitcount.signals.

        • The argument save_hitcount to the function delete_hit_count_handler (this process the signal delete_hit_count) is now keyword-only. The earlier design pattern was a case of boolean-trap.

    • mixins

      • HitCountMixin from hitcount.models has been renamed as HitCountModelMixin and moved to hitcount.mixins.

      • HitCountMixin from hitcount.views has been renamed as HitCountViewMixin and moved to hitcount.mixins.

    • models

      • BlackListIP renamed to BlockedIP.

      • BlackListUserAgent renamed to BlockedUserAgent.

      • The ip field for Hit model has been made optional. This hopefully makes the project GDPR compliant. Please open an issue if still isn’t.

        • To maintain backwards compatibility with django-hitcount, an additional setting HITCOUNT_USE_IP has been added.

    • views

      • hitcount.views.update_hit_count_ajax that was to be removed in django-hitcount 1.2 has been removed. Use hitcount.views.HitCountJSONView instead.

      • hitcount.views._update_hit_count that was to be removed in django-hitcount 1.2 has been removed. Use hitcount.mixins.HitCountViewMixin.hit_count instead.

    • removed additional dependency of django-etc.

    • added additional unit tests. Test coverage is now 100%.