Changelog¶

Version 0.6.0 - 2026/03/31¶

Fixed package setup with modern Python;
Added support for Python 3.12 and 3.13;
Added support for Django 5.2 and 6;
Fixed some tests that were not stable between Python and Django (because of file sizes);

Added new option use_base_manager application definition which can be used to bypass custom model manager from an application. Under the hood it just enables option --all from dumpdata;
Fixed Dump admin download view that was not working well. Because of some wrong response headers the downloaded archive was uncompressed by browsers but still named as a tar.gz file and so Diskette failed to load them;
Introduced new setting DISKETTE_ADMIN_ENABLED to allow disabling the Diskette admin views. Diskette will still be usable only from its commands;
Dump logs are not displayed in dump admin view. Instead a link is showed to display it in a dedicated plain text view;
Added new option --save to diskette dump command to save created archive to a new DumpFile object that can be used from admin;
Added new possible pattern date in dump filename to include a datetime like 2025-02-03T175309;

Major release for new feature to create and manage dump from Django admin, there is no incompatibility with previous version.

Added support for Python 3.11;
Added support for Django 5.1;
Added minimal version for all requirements;
Fixed usage of settings DISKETTE_DUMP_PATH and DISKETTE_LOAD_STORAGES_PATH when there are empty value, Diskette code now fallbacks to Path.cwd();
Added a dummy homepage in sandbox instead of the previous 404 page;
Added new setting DISKETTE_DUMP_PERMISSIONS to define filesystem permissions to apply on dump destination directory and archive file. It defaults to 0o755;
Added Django admin interface to manage dumps:
- Added models to manage dump files and API keys;
- API keys is currently unused until command diskette_load has been updated;
- Added django-sendfile2 to requirements and use it to serve dump file;
- Dump file are limited to a single availability for the same option set (with data, with storages and with everything);
- Creating a new dump will deprecate other dumps with identical option set then and purge files of deprecated dumps;
- Dump process logs everything into Dump object attribute logs;
- Dump process is not safe yet because it is still included in the same transaction than the object creation so if it fails, the object is never saved. However it won’t create ghost files;
- Available dump can be downloaded directly from their admin detail view;

Added option --exclude-data to diskette_load to exclude some dump filenames from loading;
Added setting DISKETTE_LOAD_MINIMAL_FILESIZE to filter out dumps with file size under the size limit;

Added option --check to diskette_dump to perform validation and checking without to query database or writing anything onto filesystem;
Added option --format to diskette_apps with additional python format which is now the default one instead of json;
Changed diskette_dump and diskette_load so they output Diskette version as an early debug log message;

Fix release for missing commandline script from package.

Added diskette_load command;
Added diskette_apps command;
Added polymorphic_dumpdata command, a work around for issues with application models that use django-polymorphic;
Lots of refactoring to include an application store to properly resolve and manage data dump with application models;
Many adjustments to make dump and loading work;
Added contribution modules for django-configuration and project-composer;
Added project-composer as a documentation requirement;

Diskette enters in its Beta stage

Diskette bases are there and should be working well, however it currently still have some lacks:

It is currently a commandline tool only, there is no admin interface yet although it has been planned;
Possible errors from validations are not well managed yet, it means they may be outputed as raw exceptions instead of human friendly messages;
Some commandlines lacks of some helpful arguments;
Documentation is still in progress;
Some bugs may be present with some options or specific configurations. This is the goal of the Beta stage to find them and fix them;