AI SaaS Template Changelog

We're continuously enhancing our template to bring you the latest and greatest features. Here's what's new:

Feb 14, 2025

  • ❤️ Happy Valentine's Day!
  • Heroku: Replaced runtime.txt with .python-version as runtime.txt is deprecated in favor of the more widely supported .python-version file.
  • 🔼 Upgraded: Bumped Python version to 3.11.11.

Jan 31, 2025

  • Updated serveral libraries to latest version including openai, Pillow, psycopg, etc.
  • Bug fixes.

May 29, 2024

  • Bumped django-allauth to latest version 0.63.2
  • Backwards incompatible changes: adding django-allauth[socialaccount] to the requirements.txt file as socialaccount is no longer included in the main package.

May 14, 2024

What's New

  • Bumped OpenAI Python client to version 1.30.1.
  • Replaced global OpenAI client with client instances instantiations for improved customization and to avoid repetition, which will help boost your AI app performance.

April 11, 2024

Added Support for Bootstrap 5

In addition to Tailwind CSS, we now fully support Bootstrap 5. This update allows users to choose their preferred styling framework more flexibly for their projects.

How to choose Bootstrap 5: On the Django Boilerplate download page, you can now select Bootstrap 5 instead of the default Tailwind CSS. This enables you to start your projects with Bootstrap's styling conventions and components from the get-go.

March 24, 2024

Added x-cloak CSS class to the Navbar

To prevent the Navbar from flickering when Alpine.js loads, we've added the x-cloak CSS class. This class is defined in the header of base.html and is applied to the Navbar to prevent the 'blip' effect when the page loads.

  • Definition
    [x-cloak] {
        display: none;
    }
  • Usage
    <nav x-data="{ open: false }" x-cloak>

You can also invoke the x-cloak class in your HTML code to prevent flickering of other elements that rely on Alpine.js.

March 23, 2024

New Python Script for Populating Related Blog Posts

We've introduced a Python script to automatically populate related blog posts for each entry.

  • Location: Find the script in the blog/utils/ folder.
  • Ease of Use: A management command, populate_related_blogs, has been added to facilitate script execution. This command is located in blog/management/commands/.
  • Execution: The management script blog/management/commands/populate_related_blogs.py invokes the populate_related_blogs function from the blog/utils/populate_related_blogs.py file.

To run the script, ensure you have blog posts in your database and execute:

python manage.py populate_related_blogs

For a deeper understanding of how the script works, including its reliance on Jaccard similarity for determining relatedness, visit our detailed blog: How to Programmatically Populate Related Blogs in Django: Boosting User Experience and SEO .

March 22, 2024

New Paginator Component

A new paginator component has been added. Incorporate it into your pages as shown below:

{% include 'pages/components/paginator' %}

See it in action on the interviewDB Blog at the page bottom: interviewDB Blog

March 15, 2024

Added sitemap.xml

A sitemap.xml file has been added to the template for improved SEO. Locate it in the config folder.

March 10, 2024

Restyled Error Pages

The 300, 400, and 500 error pages have been restyled to be more user-friendly.

March 5, 2024

Added robots.txt file

A robots.txt file has been added to the template, located in the templates folder, to guide web crawlers in indexing your site.

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