The marquee feature in this release is official support for Django v4 and v5 but this also coincided with a number of changes behind the scenes to make Haystack easier to support and several volunteers have stepped up to help work on Haystack. Especial thanks to @cclauss and @claudep for helping move things forward.

Major changes

• Django versions 3-5 are supported, running on Python 3.8-3.12.
• Releases are now created in GitHub Actions and published directly to PyPI, improving visibility into the build process.

New Contributors

• @cclauss made their first contribution in #1856
• @HAMZA310 made their first contribution in #1866
• @pbiering made their first contribution in #1870
• @srivardhanrr made their first contribution in #1896
• @notPlancha made their first contribution in #1908
• @tacerus made their first contribution in #1935
• @Naggafin made their first contribution in #1937
• @black3r made their first contribution in #1960
• @tishiljk3 made their first contribution in #1869
• @jochengcd made their first contribution in #1965

All Changes

• docs: Fix a few typos by @timgates42 in #1854
• Fix typo by @cclauss in #1856
• Fix flake8: logging.error(exc_info=True) --> logging.exception() by @cclauss in #1862
• docs: use ‘stable’ tag in Django URLs | fix outdated URLs by @HAMZA310 in #1866
• [WIP] Use standard Django test runner by @acdha in #1837
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #1852
• GitHub Actions: Add Python 3.10 and 3.11 to the testing by @cclauss in #1855
• catch makedirs problem in early state by @pbiering in #1870
• Upgrade GitHub Actions flake8 to ruff by @cclauss in #1872
• ci: Do not run the tests if linting fails by @cclauss in #1873
• Add ruff to pre-commit by @cclauss in #1874
• Fix issue duplicate-test-names found at https://codereview.doctor by @code-review-doctor in #1841
• Update spatial.rst by @srivardhanrr in #1896
• unicode to str in tutorial by @notPlancha in #1908
• Django_v5.0 by @cclauss in #1915
• README.rst: Experimental support for Django v5.0 by @cclauss in #1916
• Use GitHub Actions to publish to PyPI by @acdha in #1918
• Fix unittest assert calls for Python 3.12 by @cclauss in #1930
• Fix Django warnings admin.W411 and models.W042 by @cclauss in #1933
• Update test matrix for django v5.0 by @cclauss in #1931
• pre-commit: format files with prettier by @cclauss in #1936
• Migrate away from pkg_resources by @tacerus in #1935
• updated whoosh backend to utilize datetime from the standard library by @Naggafin in #1937
• Fix failing tests by @black3r in #1960
• PEP 621: Migrate from setup.py and setup.cfg to pyproject.toml by @cclauss in #1875
• Fixed whoosh test failures with Django 5.0 by @claudep in #1962
• Optimise code by @tishiljk3 in #1869
• django-upgrade --target-version=5.0 **/*.py by @cclauss in #1939
• Add setuptools to fix failing tests on Python 3.12 by @cclauss in #1963
• use class variables instead of global variables for field mappings in ElasticSearch7Backend by @jochengcd in #1965

Full Changelog: v3.2.1...v3.3.0