v3.16.1

This release fixes a few bugs, clean-up some old code paths for unsupported Python versions and improve translations.

Minor changes

• Cleanup optional backports.zoneinfo dependency and conditions on unsupported Python 3.8 and lower in #9681. Python versions prior to 3.9 were already unsupported so this isn't considered as a breaking change.

Bug fixes

• Fix regression in unique_together validation with SerializerMethodField in #9712
• Fix UniqueTogetherValidator to handle fields with source attribute in #9688
• Drop HTML line breaks on long headers in browsable API in #9438

Translations

• Add Kazakh locale support in #9713
• Update translations for Korean translations in #9571
• Update German translations in #9676
• Update Chinese translations in #9675
• Update Arabic translations-sal in #9595
• Update Persian translations in #9576
• Update Spanish translations in #9701
• Update Turkish Translations in #9749
• Fix some typos in Brazilian Portuguese translations in #9673

Documentation

• Removed reference to GitHub Issues and Discussions in #9660
• Add drf-restwind and update outdated images in browsable-api.md in #9680
• Updated funding page to represent current scope in #9686
• Fix broken Heroku JSON Schema link in #9693
• Update Django documentation links to use stable version in #9698
• Expand docs on unique constraints cause 'required=True' in #9725
• Revert extension back from djangorestframework-guardian2 to djangorestframework-guardian in #9734
• Add note to tutorial about required request in serializer context when using HyperlinkedModelSerializer in #9732

Internal changes

• Update GitHub Actions to use Ubuntu 24.04 for testing in #9677
• Update test matrix to use Django 5.2 stable version in #9679
• Add pyupgrade to pre-commit hooks in #9682
• Fix test with Django 5 when pytz is available in #9715

New Contributors

• @araggohnxd made their first contribution in #9673
• @mbeijen made their first contribution in #9660
• @stefan6419846 made their first contribution in #9676
• @ren000thomas made their first contribution in #9675
• @ulgens made their first contribution in #9682
• @bukh-sal made their first contribution in #9595
• @rezatn0934 made their first contribution in #9576
• @Rohit10jr made their first contribution in #9693
• @kushibayev made their first contribution in #9713
• @alihassancods made their first contribution in #9732
• @kulikjak made their first contribution in #9715
• @Natgho made their first contribution in #9749

Full Changelog: 3.16.0...3.16.1