NOTICE

We dropped support for Python 3.7, 3.8, and for pylint below 3.0.

Bugfixes

• Added Django aliases for ranges to support psycopg 2 and 3 #421
• Support for Python 3.12 datetime #427
• Fixed location of installed LICENSE file #431
• Fixed ForeignKeyStringChecker referencing linter config incorrectly #430

Other

• CI now tests against Django 5.1

NOTICE

This version drops support for Python 3.6

Bugfixes

• Fixed compatibility issue with datetime classes and python 3.12 (#425)

This is a small release to introduce pylint 3 functionality.

Bugfixes

• Fixed compatibility issue between pylint 2.12 and 2.13 to construct ScopeConsumer tuples correctly depending on version (#358)

Other

• pylint version is now pinned to <3 to give breathing space to update pylint-django before the major update lands

Bugfixes

• Fixed crash with assigning a class to a variable, and referencing the variable when subclassing (#349)

Other

• CI now tests against Django 4.0

Bugfix relase:

• Fixed picking for augment_visit (see #276)

Bugfixes

• Fixed compatability with astroid 2.9.1 (#343)

New

• Removed false positive error of missing member in TextChoices tuples #298 (see pulls #330 and #345)
• Moved from Travis CI to GitHub Actions (#336 and #340)
• Added pre-commit configuration and began enforcing black/isort code formatting
• Multiple test fixes (including #338) - newer versions of pylint expect a different format for the expected messages txt files.
• Bumped dependency for pylint-django-utils to get `multi-threaded pylint support (https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint-plugin-utils/pull/21)

• Fix compatibility issues with pylint >= 2.8. Fixes #322 and #323

• Start testing with Django 3.2 on Python 3.9 (Michael K.)

• Teach pylint-django about all HTTP methods from the View class, not only get and post (Nicolás Quiroz)

• Typo fixes for #314 (John Sandall)

• Ignore unused-argument for *args, **kwards in view method signatures

• Moved Faker dependencies to test-only. Closes #304

• Relaxed Faker package versioning requirement for Faker (Robin Chow)

• Allowed configuration of the Django settings module to be used via a commandline argument #286 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint-django/issues/286>_
• If Django settings are not specified via a commandline argument or environment variable, an error is issued but defaults are loaded from Django, removing the fatal error behaviour. #277 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint-django/issues/277>_ and #243 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint-django/issues/243>_
• Fixed tests to work with pylint>2.6
• Fixed AttributeError: 'Subscript' object has no attribute 'name' error. Closes #284 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint-django/issues/284>_ (@uy-rrodriguez)
• Pin Faker version to Prevent Asteroid Crash (James Pulec)
• Remove Python 3.5 Support (EOL since Sept 2020 and Faker requires 3.6 anyway) (James Pulec)
• Fixed reverse manager update_or_create calls (James Pulec)

• Improvement in error message for missing-backwards-migration-callable (Bryan Mutai)
• Start testing with Django 3.1 on Python 3.8
• Better error message when Django is not configured. Closes #277

• Rely on Django to resolve string references in ForeignKey fields. Refs #243 (Alejandro Angulo)
• Suppress unused-argument for functions in migration modules. Fix #267
• New checker for hard-coded auth.User. Fix #244

• New checker to warn about missing backwards data migrations (Bryan Mutai)
• Rename pylint_django.checkers.db_performance to pylint_django.checkers.migrations
• Add URL to project Changelog for PyPI (Ville Skyttä)
• Fix failing test suite b/c of missing CSV dialect. Fix #268 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint-django/issues/268>_ (Alejandro Angulo)

• Do not report error for gettext_lazy (Antonin MOREL)

• Add support for Django 3.0 and Python 3.8 (Wayne Lambert)
• Support ASGI. Fix #258 (Sander Maijers)

• Suppress too-many-ancestors for class-based generic views
• Add handler400, handler403, handler404 to good_names. Fix #248

• Fix too broad suppression of unused-argument warnings for functions and methods where the first argument is named request. Now issues warnings for the rest of the arguments if they are unused. Fix #249 (Pascal Urban)
• Pass arguments of scripts/test.sh to test_func/pytest to ease development (Pascal Urban)
• Document behavior when ForeignKey fields are referenced as strings. Fix #241

Use functools.wrap to preserve leave_module info (Mohit Solanki)

• Suppress no-member for ManyToManyField. Fix #192 and #237 (Pierre Chiquet)

• Fix UnboundLocalError with ForeignKey(to=). Fix #232 (Sardorbek Imomaliev)

• Fix UnboundLocalError: local variable 'key_cls' referenced before assignment for cases when models is a python package, the to argument is a string that is used in this pattern app.Model and also there is some other bool const like null=True right after to. (Sardorbek Imomaliev)
• Don't crash if ForeignKey field doesn't have keyword arguments Fix #230

• Support recursive (self) ForeignKey relations. Fix #208 (Daniil Kharkov)

• Fixed AstroidImportError for DecimalField. Fix #221 (Daniil Kharkov)
• Add load_configuration() in pylint_django/__init__.py. Fix #222
• Support ForeignKey relations with to keyword. Fix #223 (Daniil Kharkov)

• Updating dependency version of pylint-plugin-utils as pylint 2.3 release was not compatible #220

• Improvements to tox.ini: #217 and #216 (@aerostitch)

• Add support for new load_configuration hook of pylint #214 (@matusvalo)

• 'urlpatterns' no longer reported as an invalid constant name

Bumping the version number because there's been a mix-up between GitHub tags and the versions pushed to PyPI for 2.0.3 and 2.0.4.

Please use 2.0.5 which includes the changes mentioned below!

• Avoid traceback with concurrent execution. Fix #197
• Suppress no-member errors for LazyFunction in factories
• Suppress no-member errors for RelatedManager fields
• Clean up compatibility code: PR #207

• Suppress false-positive no-self-argument in factory.post_generation. Fix #190 (Federico Bond)

• Enable testing with Django 2.1

• Add test for Model.objects.get_or_create(). Close #156

• Add test for objects.exclude(). Close #177

• Fix Instance of 'Model' has no 'id' member (no-member), fix Class 'UserCreationForm' has no 'declared_fields' member. Close #184

• Fix for Instance of 'ManyToManyField' has no 'add' member. Close #163

• Add test & fix for unused arguments on class based views

• Requires pylint >= 2.0 which doesn't support Python 2 anymore!

• Add modelform-uses-unicode check to flag dangerous use of the exclude attribute in ModelForm.Meta (Federico Bond).

• Enable test case for urlpatterns variable which was previously disabled

• Disable unused-argument message for the request argument passed to view functions. Fix #155

• Add transformations for model_utils managers instead of special-casing them. Fix #160

• New JsonResponseChecker that looks for common anti-patterns with http responses returning JSON. This includes:

  HttpResponse(json.dumps(data))
  
  HttpResponse(data, content_type='application/json')
  
  JsonResponse(data, content_type=...)

• Remove the compatibility layer for older astroid versions

• Make flake8 happy. Fix #102

• Fix: compatibility with Python < 3.6 caused by ModuleNotFoundError not available on older versions of Python (Juan Rial)

• Show README and CHANGELOG on PyPI. Fix #122

• Fix explicit unicode check with python_2_unicode_compatible base models (Federico Bond)

• Suppress not-an-iterable message for 'objects'. Fix #117

• Teach pylint_django that objects.all() is subscriptable. Fix #144

• Suppress invalid-name for wsgi.application. Fix #77

• Add test for WSGIRequest.context. Closes #78

• Register transforms for FileField. Fix #60

• New checker pylint_django.checkers.db_performance. Enables checking of migrations and reports when there's an AddField operation with a default value which may slow down applying migrations on large tables. This may also lead to production tables being locked while migrations are being applied. Fix #118

• Suppress no-member for factory.SubFactory objects. Useful when model factories use factory.SubFactory() for foreign key relations.

• Add an optional dependency on Django

• Fix the DjangoInstalledChecker so it can actually warn when Django isn't available

• Fix #136 by adding automated build and sanity test scripts

• Fix #133 and #134 by including package data when building wheel and tar.gz packages for PyPI (Joseph Herlant)

• Fix #123 - Update links after the move to pylint-dev (Mr. Senko)

• Add test for Meta class from django_tables2 (Mr. Senko)

• Fix flake8 complaints (Peter Bittner)

• Add missing .txt and .rc test files to MANIFEST.in (Joseph Herlant)

• Backported fix for #120.

WARNING: this release has not been tested via our regular CI process because the 0.8.x branch is missing lots of internal infrastructure and it will not be generally supported! This version is provided as a last-resort measure for users who can't upgrade to the 2.x series! Use at your own risk!

• This is the last version to support Python 2. Issues a deprecation warning!

• #109, adding 'urlpatterns', 'register', 'app_name' to good names. Obsoletes #111, fixes #108 (Vinay Pai)

• Add 'handler500' to good names (Mr. Senko)

• #103: Support factory_boy's DjangoModelFactory Meta class (Konstantinos Koukopoulos)

• #100: Fix E1101:Instance of 'proxy' has no 'format' member' when using .format() on a ugettext_lazy translation. Fixes #80 (canarduck)

• #99: Add tests and transforms for DurationField, fixes #95 (James M. Allen)

• #92: Add json field to WSGIRequest proxy (sjk4sc)

• #84: Add support for django.contrib.postgres.fields and UUIDField (Villiers Strauss)

• Stop testing with older Django versions. Currently testing with Django 1.11.x and 2.0

• Stop testing on Python 2, no functional changes in the source code though

• Update tests and require latest version of pylint (>=1.8), fixes #53, #97

• #81 Fix 'duplicate-except' false negative for except blocks which catch the DoesNotExist exception.

• #76 Better handling of mongoengine querysetmanager

• #73 #72 Make package zip safe to help fix some path problems

• #68 Suppressed invalid constant warning for "app_name" in urls.py

• #67 Fix view.args and view.kwargs

• #66 accessing _meta no longer causes a protected-access warning as this is a public API as of Django 1.8

• #65 Add support of mongoengine module.

• #59 Silence old-style-class for widget Meta

• #52 - Fixed stupid mistake when using versioninfo

• #51 - Fixed compatibility with pylint 1.5 / astroid 1.4.1

• #43 - Foreign key ID access (somefk_id) does not raise an 'attribute not found' warning

• #31 - Support for custom model managers (thanks smirolo)

• #48 - Added support for django-restframework (thanks mbertolacci)

• Pylint 1.4 dropped support for Python 2.6, therefore a constraint is added that pylint-django will only work with Python2.6 if pylint<=1.3 is installed

• #40 - pylint 1.4 warned about View and Model classes not having enough public methods; this is suppressed

• #37 - fixed an infinite loop when using astroid 1.3.3+

• #36 - no longer warning about lack of __unicode__ method on abstract model classes

• PR #34 - prevent warning about use of super() on ModelManager classes

• PR #27 - better ForeignKey transforms, which now work when of the form othermodule.ModelClass. This also fixes a problem where an inferred type would be _Yes and pylint would fail

• PR #28 - better knowledge of ManyToManyField classes

• Improved resilience to inference failure when Django types cannot be inferred (which can happen if Django is not on the system path

• Issue #25 Fixing cases where a module defines get as a method

• Fixed a problem where type inference could get into an infinite loop

• Removed usage of a Django object, as importing it caused Django to try to configure itself and thus throw an ImproperlyConfigured exception.

• Issue #7 Improved handling of Django model fields

• Issue #10 No warning about missing unicode if the Django python3/2 compatibility tools are used

• Issue #11 Improved handling of Django form fields

• Issue #12 Improved handling of Django ImageField and FileField objects

• Issue #14 Models which do not define unicode but whose parents do now have a new error (W5103) instead of incorrectly warning about no unicode being present.

• Issue #21 ForeignKey and OneToOneField fields on models are replaced with instance of the type they refer to in the AST, which allows pylint to generate correct warnings about attributes they may or may not have.

• Python3 is now supported

• __unicode__ warning on models does not appear in Python3

• Pylint now recognises BaseForm as an ancestor of Form and subclasses

• Improved Form support

• Issue #2 - a subclass of a Model or Form also has warnings about a Meta class suppressed.

• Issue #3 - Form and ModelForm subclasses no longer warn about Meta classes.