1.7.0

Highlights

• Upgraded to Django 5.2.
• Reduced response latency and resource overhead via Django's native database connection pooling.
• Thanks to @denyshon for several bug fixes!

What's Changed

• Do not skip empty on single indexing by @akatsoulas in #7242
• replace bleach with justhtml by @escattone in #7236
• Upgrade to Django 5.2 LTS by @akatsoulas in #7208
• Bump django from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 by @dependabot[bot] in #7244
• Set maxlength for the ff_version & tb_version fields by @denyshon in #7243
• gracefully handle legacy user sessions by @escattone in #7246
• simplify the logout-invalidated-sessions middleware by @escattone in #7249
• Introduce search reindex api for playwright usage by @emilghittasv in #7245
• Make sure troubleshooting-field exists before displaying it by @denyshon in #7253
• fix handling of legacy first_seen values by @escattone in #7252
• support switching to non-English community forums by @escattone in #7250
• Playwright fix broken tests by @emilghittasv in #7254
• Fix JS avatar fallback not happening in some cases by @denyshon in #7247
• Bump playwright to 1.57.0 and update playwright tests to use the reindex api by @emilghittasv in #7256
• fix alignment within support-type switcher by @escattone in #7260
• Playwright test and framework improvements v1 by @emilghittasv in #7261

Full Changelog: 1.6.6...1.7.0