Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

1.0.0 - 2026-07-24

Added

• Initial release.
• PartialFieldsSerializerMixin, PartialFieldsSerializer, and PartialFieldsModelSerializer for sparse-fieldset serialization.
• PartialResponseMixin for automatic view/queryset wiring.
• Nested field selection, exclusion (-field), aliasing (alias:field), and wildcard (*) syntax in the fields query parameter.
• Automatic select_related / prefetch_related / only() query optimization based on the requested fields, including recursive optimization of nested Prefetch querysets.
• requires_related decorator for declaring optimizer hints on SerializerMethodField methods.
• Optional drf-spectacular integration (PartialResponseAutoSchema, fields_query_parameter).
• Full test suite across Python 3.10–3.13 and Django 4.2–5.2.