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Oscar 4.0 release notes

Release data: 2025-04-14

Compatibility

Oscar 4.0 is now compatible with django 5.2 and adds python 3.13 support as well.

What's new in Oscar 4.0

There are mainly bug fixes and dependency updates within this release and a few new features;

• Added support for django 5.2; https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/464fa8a9bf8a26dbfc073da84a66843a6841255b
• A new 'priority' field has been added to the product model; https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/e70a56f7f86dd49d5ef89c69fd638e0def6222d1
• A new 'code' field has been added to the product model; https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/acf629df84ab72b9ecf5c3ba20fa478fdddb7ac9
• Permissions system has been improved, new staff users don't automatically get access to everything; https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/b152eb5100317cd1acb1878165ac0221a2d90df4
• Useful prefetches have been added for performance; https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/a79c8c2190ee684e6246166aa135341946fbe493
• Calculations are now done with four decimals to improve accuracy; https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/b74d83ca4a7479b5dbbc6843a4e79d0caaac2c6a

The following list contains all changes in Oscar 4.0;

• [Fix] Resolve rounding errors (#4455) by Samar Hassan in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4455
• fix 🐛 resolve multiple backend error in race condition (#4457) by Samar Hassan in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4457
• bug fix: AbstractProduct.primary_images() should check against ProductImage._meta, not ProductImage.Meta (#4419) by nevin in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4419
• Django 5.2 (lts) support. (#4456) by Joey in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4456
• changed button colors so it uses primary (#4449) by Rafael-Highbiza in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4449
• [Fix] Resolve rounding error (#4448) by Samar Hassan in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4448
• Make setuptools get dynamic version from setup.py rather than the pyprojectoml. (#4437) by Joey in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4437
• [Fix] Number of orders sorting fix in dashboard customer listing (#4435) by Samar Hassan in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4435
• Bump sphinxcontrib-spelling from 7.5.1 to 8.0.1 (#4417) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4417
• Bump codecov/codecov-action in the github_actions group (#4430) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4430
• Fix string formatting not showing which attribute is reserved (#4429) by Joey in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4429
• fix: wrap selector attr value in double quotes (#4428) by gasoved in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4428
• [FIXED] Issue [#4344] NoneType error when discount.offer is None (#4424) by Gregory Mariani in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4344
• Trigger build, as codecov uploading hasnt worked in 10 months. by Joey Jurjens in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/81bc5bd50
• Bump sass from 1.81.0 to 1.83.4 (#4426) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4426
• Update django-extra-views requirement from <0.15,>=0.13 to >=0.13,<0.16 (#4416) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4416
• Update easy-thumbnails requirement from <2.10,>=2.9 to >=2.9,<2.11 (#4415) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4415
• Bump @fortawesome/fontawesome-free from 6.7.1 to 6.7.2 (#4410) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4410
• Bump sphinx-rtd-theme from 1.0.0 to 3.0.2 (#4414) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4414
• Bump tinymce from 7.5.1 to 7.6.0 (#4412) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4412
• Bump codecov/codecov-action (#4407) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4407
• Bump sphinx-issues from 3.0.1 to 5.0.0 (#4418) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4418
• [FEAT] Improve Percentage discount benefit accuracy (#4423) by Samar Hassan in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4423
• [FEAT] Add method to get all dashboard permissions (#4392) by Samar Hassan in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4392
• fix blocktrans indentation (#4408) by Gijs in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4408
• Solr: restore price range in search facets (#4376) by Gunther Waidacher in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4376
• Implement pyproject.toml (#4404) by Viggo de Vries in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4404
• Bump sass from 1.80.6 to 1.81.0 (#4397) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4397
• Bump tinymce from 7.5.0 to 7.5.1 (#4398) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4398
• Bump gulp-sass from 5.1.0 to 6.0.0 (#4399) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4399
• Bump @fortawesome/fontawesome-free from 6.6.0 to 6.7.1 (#4400) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4400
• Product code (#4402) by Voxin Muyli in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4402
• If product is child and parent is not public, it's not viewable! (#4401) by Viggo de Vries in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4401
• fix pylint (#4395) by Gijs in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4395
• Bump codecov/codecov-action (#4393) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4393
• put line and line_created in attributes (#4394) by Gijs in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4394
• Merge pull request [#4391] from django-oscar/fix-order-form-test by Voxin Muyli in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4391
• fix :wrench: order search form must have at least one field by Samar Hassan in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/2b08af5ae
• Fix test by Viggo de Vries in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/4c89087f1
• Add blocks to basket messages (#4390) by Gijs in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4390
• Fix a typo which caused a typeerror on string formatting (#4274) by Thomas van der Hoeven in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4274
• Fix duplicate search box in Dashboard -> Offers -> Voucher (voucher_list.html) (#4353) by Ryan Malloy in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4353
• Fix wrong variable name in example code (#4383) by Luiz Cavalcanti in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4383
• Bump tinymce from 7.3.0 to 7.5.0 (#4388) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4388
• Update whitenoise requirement from <6.8,>=6.7.0 to >=6.7.0,<6.9 (#4377) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4377
• Update redis requirement from <5.1,>=3.5 to >=3.5,<5.3 (#4378) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4378
• Bump sass from 1.78.0 to 1.80.6 (#4386) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4386
• Bump nan from 2.20.0 to 2.22.0 (#4380) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4380
• Merge pull request [#4384] from django-oscar/dashboard-permissions by Voxin Muyli in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4384
• chore :recycle: drop support for Django 3.2, move to LTS Django 4.2+ by Samar Hassan in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/a8443bd0e
• tests :white_check_mark: add more tests by Samar Hassan in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/7b7aee46e
• feat :star: oscar dashboard permissions by Samar Hassan in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/b152eb510
• Merge pull request [#4360] from django-oscar/get_public_children_categories by nathanhighbiza in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4360
• Get public children on category by Viggo de Vries in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/12ee5083a
• 4.0 by Viggo de Vries in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/362ee0c88
• Oscar 4.0a1 by Viggo de Vries in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/ef5539a24
• Fix de docs by Viggo de Vries in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/7bbe47631
• Add nodejs to tools by Viggo de Vries in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/713d6ba1c
• release django oscar version 3.2.5 (#4354) by Viggo de Vries in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4354
• [FEAT] Update 3.2.5 release docs (#4355) by Samar Hassan in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4355
• Fix result of prefetch attribute values for children (#4352) by Joey in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4352
• lint by Viggo de Vries in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/2b32fc1c6
• Add priority field (#4351) by Viggo de Vries in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4351
• Add useful prefetch methods for bulk processing (#4350) by Joey in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4350
• Merge pull request [#4349] from django-oscar/upgrade-deps by Voxin Muyli in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4349
• fix :wrench: upgrade deps in test venv by Samar Hassan in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/ad93b59e4
• Merge pull request [#4348] from django-oscar/fix-tests by Voxin Muyli in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4348
• feat :star: upgrade setuptools version by Samar Hassan in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/commit/23b672224
• Bump tinymce from 7.2.0 to 7.3.0 (#4342) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4342
• Bump sass from 1.77.4 to 1.78.0 (#4346) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4346
• fixed typo in docs (#4347) by Ryan Malloy in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4347
• Fix basket check id and translation (#4283) by Julie Rymer in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4283
• Bump @fortawesome/fontawesome-free from 6.5.2 to 6.6.0 (#4329) by dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4329
• Supress mention of django-secure from deploying.rst (#4337) by Luiz Cavalcanti in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4337
• Don’t allow adding a product with negative quantity (#4338) by sephi in https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/4338