1.0.0 [2022-04-28]

Features

• Introduced mechanism to clear cache on specific signals

Changes

Backward incompatible changes

• Removed notification widget and toast template tags: the template
  tags "notification_widget" and "notification_toast" have been
  removed and their HTML is added directly to the admin/base_site.html
  template
• Changed the API URL prefix to make it consistent with other OpenWISP
  modules

Dependencies

• Dropped support for Python 3.6
• Added support for Python 3.8 and 3.9
• Dropped support for Django 2.2
• Added support for Django 3.2 and 4.0
• Updated django channels to 3.0.x
• Upgraded celery to 5.2.x
• Upgraded openwisp-utils to 1.0.x

Other changes

• Restyled widget to new OpenWISP theme plus various UI fixes and
  improvements
• Restyled notification email template
• When clicking on the mark as read button, the notification widget
  now instantaneously marks notification as read instead of waiting
  for the API response
• Added models parameter to register_notification_type
• Switch to openwisp-utils email template
• Optimized query for flagging all notification as read via API
• Added celery time limits to tasks except delete_old_notifications
  (which may take a long time to finish in big installations)
• Changed wording of "unsubscribe" button, which has been renamed to
  "Silence notifications"
• Added dedicated channel layer group for each user to avoid
  generating warnings like
  63 of 67 channels over capacity in group ow_notification

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug which caused to lose notification preferences of users
• Fixed extensibility of openwisp-users: removed openwisp-users as a
  direct dependency from migrations file because it was creating
  issues when extending openwisp-users
• Fixed multiple jquery inclusions in base_site.html
• Fixed WSS connection error when running on http
• Fixed creation of notification settings for superuser
• Fixed unregistered notification type breaking API
• Fixed closing notification toast on slow connections
• Fixed notification storms: when many notifications are created due
  to severe network outages, the UI is not flooded anymore
• Fixed browsable API view for NotificationReadAllView
• Added error handling for sending emails when notification settings
  for a specific user are not present
• Fixed unsubscribe / silence notifications button alignment
• Fixed Swagger API doc issues
• Fixed create_notification command to honor organization
  notification preferences