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# Version History

## Version 0.6.3

- Test against Django 6.0

- Support animated CAPTCHAs (AVIF or GIF)

## Version 0.6.2

- Make DRF dependency optional

## Version 0.6.1

- Fixed docs and test configuration

- Delete leftover temporary audio files (#224, #225, #226 thanks @dawidratynski and @A-dead-pixel)

- Test against Django 5.1 and 5.2

- Add ability to control color of each character (PR #235, thanks @mheidarian)

- Add support for Django REST Framework (PR #236, thanks @michalwrona01)

- Audio CAPTCHA: try to detect the sample rate of the generated WAV file prior to merge (Issue #196)

## Version 0.6.0

- Only Django versions 4.2 or above are now supported

- Removed the old rendering methods that were deprecated in 2017.

## Version 0.5.20

- Still support Django 3.2 (#222, thanks @petrklus)

## Version 0.5.19

- SECURITY ISSUE: reset the random seed after an image was generated (#221, thanks @ibuler)

## Version 0.5.18

- Fix some typos in documentation (#210, thanks @stweil)

- Test against Django 4.2

- Stopped testing Django < 3.2

- BaseCaptchaTextInput should set autocomplete=off on the hashkey HiddenInput (#201, thanks @eerotal)

- Test against Django 4.2a

- Fix some deprecation warnings in Pillow 9.2+

- Removed old unused conditional imports

- Format code with pre-commit and black

## Version 0.5.17

- English translation created from Spanish ones (#209, thanks @tpazderka)

## Version 0.5.16

- Adds a migration missing from 0.5.15 (#208, thanks @atodorov)

## Version 0.5.15

- Updated test matrix, drop tests against Python3.6, test against Python3.9

- Remove dependency on six

- Test against Django 4.0a1

- Test with Python 3.10 (Django 3.2 and Django 4.0)

- Remove warning for django 3.2 (#206, thanks @MiStErLu)

## Version 0.5.14

- Generate deterministic CAPTCHA images for each Captcha instance (#194, thanks @mjnaderi)

- New setting CAPTCHA_2X_IMAGE to disable the double resolution image option (#195, thanks @mjnaderi)

- Test against Django 3.2a

## Version 0.5.13

- Fix DeprecationWarnings on Django 3 related to unicode (#173, thanks @jannh)

- Applied black to the codebase and ignored W503

- tox: remove superfluous basepython statement (#172, thanks @devkral)

- i18n: add Persian (fa) language translation files (#190, thanks @mavenium)

- Test Django 2.2, 3.0 and 3.1 on Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 (#171, thanks @devkral)

- Fix deprecation warnings on Django 3.1 (#186, thanks @ jannh and @TheBuky)

- Travis fixes and test on ppc64le arch (#192 and #191, thanks @kishorkunal-raj)

## Version 0.5.12

- Doc: Update url include line for Django (#164, thanks @jpic)

- Doc: Fixed a typo (#162, thanks @RubenGarcia)

- Initial fixes and test against Django 3.0 (#166, #165. Thanks @devkral)

- Don’t open dictionary file in binary mode (#167, thanks @grasshoppermouse)

## Version 0.5.11

- Fix: CAPTCHA_TEST_MODE was broken. (#163, thanks @ohlr for reporting)

## Version 0.5.10

- Test against Django 2.2a1

- Docs: Grammar correction (#160, thanks @DanAtShenTech)

- Fix: Add ‘+’ to text replacement for audio support (#157, thanks @geirkairam)

- I18N: Added Swedish translation (#155, thanks @stefannorman)

- Docs: Provide an example of custom field template (#158, thanks @TheBuky)

## Version 0.5.9

- Add missing Jinja2 templates in the pypi packages.

## Version 0.5.8

- Add support for Jinja2 templates (Issue #145, PR #146, thanks @ziima)

- Cleanup, drop dependency on South (#141, #142 thanks @ziima)

## Version 0.5.7

- Use templates for rendering of widgets (Issue #128, #134, PR #133, #139, thanks @ziima)

- Always defined audio context variable (PR #132, thanks @ziima)

- Test against Django 2.1a

- Updated AJAX update docs (PR #140, thanks @CNmanyue)

- Fixed a typo in a variable name (PR #130, thanks @galeo)

## Version 0.5.6

- Updated render method to adapt for Django 2.1 (PR #120, thanks @skozan)

- Improved compatibility with Django 2.0, tests against Django 2.0a1 (PR #121, thanks @Kondou-ger)

- Dropped support for PIL (use Pillow instead)

- Updated documentation (Fixes #122, thanks @claudep)

- Test against Django 2.0b1

- Return a Ranged Response when returning WAV audio to support Safari (Fixes #123, thanks @po5i)

- Optionally inject brown noise into the generated WAV audio file, to avoid rainbow-table attacks (Fixes #124, thanks @appleorange1)

- Test against Django 2.0

## Version 0.5.5

- I messed the 0.5.4 release, re-releasing as 0.5.5

## Version 0.5.4

- Removed a couple gremlins (PR #113, thanks @Pawamoy)

- Added autocapitalize=”off”, autocorrect=”off” and spellcheck=”false” to the generated field (PR #116, thanks @rdonnelly)

- Test against Django 1.11

- Drop support of Django 1.7 (“it’ll probably still work”)

## Version 0.5.3

- Ability to pass a per-field challenge generator function (Fixes #109)

- Added a feature to get captchas from a data pool of pre-created captchas (PR #110, thanks @skozan)

- Cleanup to remove old code handling timezones for no longer supported Django versions

- Fix for “Size must be a tuple” issue with Pillow 3.4.0 (Fixes #111)

## Version 0.5.2

- Use any multiplication uperator instead of “*”. (Fixes #77 via PR #104, thanks @honsdomi and @isergey)

- Test against Django 1.10

## Version 0.5.1

- Fine tuning MANIFEST.in

- Prevent testproject from installing into site-packages

## Version 0.5.0

- Adds missing includes in MANIFEST.in

## Version 0.4.7

- Supported Django versions are now 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9

- Trying to fix the TravisCI build errors

- Use Django templates to render the individual fields, as well as the assembled Captcha Field (Issue #31)

## Version 0.4.6

- Fixes an UnicodeDecodeError which was apparently only triggered during testing on TravisCI (I hope)

- Support for Django 2.0 urlpatterns syntax (PR #82, Thanks @R3v1L)

- settings.CAPTCHA_FONT_PATH may be a list, in which case a font is picked randomly (Issue #51 fixed in PR #88, Thanks @inflrscns)

## Version 0.4.5

- Test with tox

- Test against Django 1.8 final

- Added ability to force a fixed image size (PR #76, Thanks @superqwer)

## Version 0.4.4

- Added id_prefix argument (fixes issue #37)

## Version 0.4.3

- Add null noise helper (Thanks @xrmx)

- Test against Django 1.7b4

- Added Spanish translations (Thanks @dragosdobrota)

- Massive cleanup (pep8, translations)

- Support for transparent background color. (Thanks @curaloucura)

- Support both Django 1.7 migrations and South migrations. Please note, you must add the following to your settings, if you are using South migrations and Django 1.6 or lower.

- Make sure autocomplete=”off” is only applied to the text input, not the hidden input (Issue #68, thanks @narrowfail)

- Fixed some grammar in the documentation. (Thanks @rikrian)

- Return an HTTP 410 GONE error code for expired captcha images, to avoid crawlers from trying to reindex them (PR #70, thanks @joshuajonah)

- Fixed title markup in documentation (#74, thanks @pavlov99)

- Test against Django 1.7.1

## Version 0.4.2

- Added autocomplete=”off” to the input (Issue #57, thanks @Vincent-Vega)

- Fixed the format (msgfmt -c) of most PO and MO files distributed with the project

- Added Bulgarian translations. (Thanks @vstoykov)

- Added Japanese translations. (Thanks, Keisuke URAGO)

- Added Ukrainian translations. (Thanks, @FuriousCoder)

- Added support for Python 3.2. (Thanks, @amrhassan)

## Version 0.4.1

- Dropped support for Django 1.3

- Fixed support of newer versions of Pillow (2.1 and above. Pillow 2.2.2 is now required) Thanks @viaregio (Issue #50)

## Version 0.4.0

- Perform some tests at package installation, to check whether PIL or Pillow are already installed. (Issue #46)

- Added Slovak translations. (Thanks @ciklysta)

## Version 0.3.9

- Run most tests both with a regular Form and a ModelForm, to avoid regressions such as Issue #40

- Handle the special case where CaptchaFields are instantiated with required=False (Issue #42, thanks @DrMeers)

- Fixed a misspelled setting, we now support both spellings, but the docs suggest the correct one (Issue #36, thanks @sayadn)

- Added Django 1.6b to testrunner and adapted the test cases to support Django 1.6’s new test discovery

- Added German translations. (Thanks @digi604)

- Frozen the version of Pillow to 2.0.0, as 2.1.0 seems to be truncating the output image – Issue #44, Thanks @andruby

- Added Polish translations. (Thanks @stilzdev)

## Version 0.3.8

- Fixed a critical bug (Issue #40) that would generate two captcha objects, and the test would always fail. Thanks @pengqi for the heads-up.

## Version 0.3.7

- Improved Django 1.5 and Django HEAD (1.6) compatibility (thanks @uruz)

- Python3 compatibility (requires six and Pillow >= 2.0)

- Added zh_CN localization (thanks @mingchen)

- Make sure the generated challenge is a string type (the math challenge was probably broken – Issue #33, thanks @YDS19872712)

- Massive cleanup and refactoring (Issue #38, thanks @tepez)

- Test refactoring to test a couple generators that weren’t tested by default

## Version 0.3.6

- Django 1.5 compatibility (only affects tests)

- Italian localization (thanks @arjunadeltoso)

- Russian localization (thanks @mikek)

- Fixed issue #17 - Append content-length to response (thanks @shchemelevev)

- Merged PR #19 - AJAX refresh of captcha (thanks @artofhuman)

- Merged PR #22 - Use op.popen instead of subprocess.call to generate the audio CAPTCHA (thanks @beda42)

- Fixed issue #10 - uniformize spelling of “CAPTCHA” (thanks @mikek)

- Fixed issue #12 - Raise error when try to initialize CaptchaTextInput alone and/or when try to initialize CaptchaField with widget keyword argument (thanks @vstoykov)

- Merged PR #15 - Allow a ‘test mode’ where the string ‘PASSED’ always validates the CAPTCHA (thanks @beda42)

- Dutch translation (thanks @leonderijke)

- Turkish translation (thanks @gkmngrgn)

## Version 0.3.5

- Fixes issue #4: Fixes id_for_label malfunction with prefixed forms (thanks @lolek09)

## Version 0.3.4

- Fixes issue #3: regression on Django 1.4 when USE_TZ is False

## Version 0.3.3

- Django 1.4 Time zones compatibility

- PEP 8 love

## Version 0.3.2

- Added a test project to run tests

- Added South migrations