oscar Files

This release focuses on the dashboard experience — bulk actions and search in the catalogue — alongside Django 6 support and a handful of correctness fixes in checkout and order placement.

Highlights

• Django 6 support — StartsWith is now implemented as a Lookup rather than a subclass, resolving the incompatibility tracked in [#4557].
• Reworked catalogue bulk actions — select across all pages, bulk-toggle public visibility, and a redesigned bulk action flow in the catalogue dashboard.
• Granular dashboard permissions — dashboard views now support custom, per-permission checks instead of a single blanket check.
• Node Sass removed — the build toolchain now uses Dart Sass only.

Upgrade notes

• Django 6 is now supported. (#4564)
• django-treebeard 5.0 is now supported. If you subclass Category or its manager, note that the manager now correctly subclasses Treebeard's manager, which silences a startup warning. (#4556, [#4583])
• Node Sass has been removed from the frontend build. If you compile Oscar's styles in your own pipeline, switch to Dart Sass. (#4568)
• ShippingEventQuantity has been extended, and code fields were added to the address and product review models — review your migrations if you have forked these models. (#4577, [#4551], [#4552])

Dashboard

• Add custom granular permission checks for dashboards — by [@mfarhan943](https://github.com/mfarhan943) (#4507)
• Rework bulk actions in the catalogue dashboard — by [@mr-sphere](https://github.com/mr-sphere) (#4570)
• Add a category search form — by [@samar-hassan](https://github.com/samar-hassan) (#4536)
• Add an option to select objects across all pages — by [@samar-hassan](https://github.com/samar-hassan) (#4535)
• Bulk update public visibility in the product and category listings — by [@samar-hassan](https://github.com/samar-hassan) (#4537)
• Allow all heading levels in the TinyMCE editor — by [@mr-sphere](https://github.com/mr-sphere) (#4595)
• Make email search more flexible — by [@samar-hassan](https://github.com/samar-hassan) (#4558)
• Add missing search fields to the Django admin models — by [@samar-hassan](https://github.com/samar-hassan) (#4543)

Checkout & orders

• Allow guest checkout for customers who already have an account — by [@samar-hassan](https://github.com/samar-hassan) (#4581)
• Prevent deadlock between concurrent order placements — by [@samar-hassan](https://github.com/samar-hassan) (#4594)
• Preserve basket line order when creating order lines — by [@samar-hassan](https://github.com/samar-hassan) (#4598)
• Add a hook for choosing which attributes are copied to new lines — by [@viggo-devries](https://github.com/viggo-devries) (#4582)
• Exit early when a product has no options — by [@mr-sphere](https://github.com/mr-sphere) (#4578)

Models

• Extend the ShippingEventQuantity model — by [@samar-hassan](https://github.com/samar-hassan) (#4577)
• Add code to the address models — by [@samar-hassan](https://github.com/samar-hassan) (#4551)
• Add code to product reviews — by [@samar-hassan](https://github.com/samar-hassan) (#4552)
• Add email to the report — by [@wiktor-highbiza](https://github.com/wiktor-highbiza) (#4576)

Compatibility

• Support Django 6 by replacing the StartsWith subclass with a Lookup (fixes [#4557]) — by [@jobcase-ebrake](https://github.com/jobcase-ebrake) (#4564)
• Compatibility with django-treebeard 5.0 — by [@solarissmoke](https://github.com/solarissmoke) (#4556)
• Fix warning caused by the Category manager not subclassing Treebeard's manager — by [@solarissmoke](https://github.com/solarissmoke) (#4583)
• Remove Node Sass — by [@jwayodi](https://github.com/jwayodi) (#4568)

Fixes

• Correct the namespace for notifications-inbox — by [@janheini](https://github.com/janheini) (#4567)
• Define bulk action variables in the __init__ method — by [@samar-hassan](https://github.com/samar-hassan) (#4538)

Documentation

• Remove the broken Transifex link from the README — by [@yachikadev](https://github.com/yachikadev) (#4571)

New contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed for the first time in this release:

• [@janheini](https://github.com/janheini) (#4567)
• [@jobcase-ebrake](https://github.com/jobcase-ebrake) (#4564)
• [@wiktor-highbiza](https://github.com/wiktor-highbiza) (#4576)
• [@yachikadev](https://github.com/yachikadev) (#4571)

Full changelog: https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/compare/4.1...4.2