1.3.0 [2026-09-03]

Features

• Added target URL suffix support to the notify signal.

Changes

Backward-incompatible changes

• Changed notification types to be mandatory. Notification.type can no longer be null and notify.send() now requires the type argument.

Other changes

• Updated notification preference colors to use OpenWISP theme colors, improving compatibility with customized themes.
• Updated notification preferences to respect Django permissions, allowing users to modify other users' preferences only when they have the required permissions.
• Replaced the third-party JSONField with Django's built-in JSONField.

Dependencies

• Bumped openwisp-users from ~=1.2.0 to ~=1.3.0.
• Bumped openwisp-utils[rest,celery,channels] from ~=1.2.0 to ~=1.3.0.
• Bumped django-redis from ~=6.0.0 to ~=7.0.0.
• Bumped markdown from ~=3.9 to ~=3.10.
• Dropped support for Django 4.2.
• Dropped support for Python 3.9.

Bugfixes

• Fixed global notification setting integrity by ensuring that each user can have only one global notification setting and resolving existing duplicates.
• Fixed web notifications being received when disabled globally.
• Fixed fragment notifications remaining open when already on their target page.
• Fixed support for swappable user models by removing a hardcoded dependency on openwisp-users.
• Fixed database migration from the third-party JSONField to Django's JSONField so PostgreSQL columns are correctly converted from text to jsonb during upgrades.
• Fixed handling of lazy translated notification messages.
• Fixed notification admin object ID extraction.
• Fixed an invalid escape sequence warning in setup.py.