4.0.0

This release contains breaking changes!

What's Changed

Breaking changes

• Changed obj field to GenericForeignKey
  Previously the notify function expected obj to be an id now it's accepts a Django object. This affects the notify utility function and the inbuilt Notification model
• Changed BaseNotificationChannel class:
  This affects the Implementation of custom channels. You'll need to rewrite existing custom channels to follow the new paradigm. See the dos for more details

New features

• Added Countdown/Schedule functionality.

• Added NOTIFICATIONS_MODEL setting to override the default Notification model setting

• Added serverless `DELIVERY_BACKEND]

• Added "provider" functionality.

• Added slack provider

• Added email provider

• Added django-sms provider

Dev:

• Switch from Travis CI to Github actions
• Add pre-commit hooks for black, isort and flake8

3.0.5 release

• Migrate channels field to JSONField
• Deprecate ListField
• Fix migration error for ListField

3.0.4 release

• Make WebSocket channel optional

3.0.3 release

• loosen requirements

3.0.2 release

• Fixed ImportError's for optional dependencies

3.0.1 release

• Fix AppsNotReady error

3.0.0 release

• add new setting NOTIFICATIONS_DELIVERY_BACKEND
• add new setting NOTIFICATIONS_QUEUE_NAME
• Change default backend to Synchronous (Celery now has to be explicitly configured)
• Create celery backend
• Create Synchronous backend
• Create RQ Backend
• Update installation instructions (Optional dependencies)
• run each channel as a task
• Add retry functionality
• Document NOTIFICATIONS_RETRY = True and NOTIFICATIONS_RETRY_INTERVAL and NOTIFICATIONS_MAX_RETRIES
• Remove NOTIFICATIONS_PAGINATE_BY setting
• Remove NOTIFICATIONS_USE_WEBSOCKET setting
• Remove NOTIFICATIONS_RABBIT_MQ_URL setting
• Rename BasicWebSocket channel to WebSocket channel
• Use Django channels for WebSocket
• Add new setting NOTIFICATIONS_WEBSOCKET_EVENT_NAME
• Add new setting NOTIFICATIONS_WEBSOCKET_URL_PARAM
• django-jsonfield-backport to support JSONField in django < 3.1

2.6.5 release

• Remove 'notifications' context processor
• Remove views.py and urls.py
• Set Celery dependency to >=4.1.0
• Set pika dependency to 0.12.0
• Deprecate Python3.5 and Django <=2.1 (Will be removed in 2.6.6)

2.6.4 Release

• Implement Multi-platform testing with tox
• General code improvements (Django 3.1.5 compliance)
• Automate Pypi deployments