Whitenoise

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* Support Django 4.2.

* Remove further support for byte strings from the ``root`` and ``prefix`` arguments to ``WhiteNoise``, and Django’s ``STATIC_ROOT`` setting.
Like in the previous release, this seems to be a remnant of Python 2 support.
Again, this change may be backwards incompatible for a small number of projects, but it’s unlikely.
Django does not support ``STATIC_ROOT`` being a byte string.

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* Add some video file extensions to be ignored during compression.
Since such files are already heavily compressed, further compression rarely helps.

Thanks to Jon Ribbens in `PR 431 <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/431>`__.

* Remove the behaviour of decoding byte strings passed for settings that take strings.
This seemed to be left around from supporting Python 2.
This change may be backwards incompatible for a small number of projects.

* Document “hidden” feature of setting ``max_age`` to ``None`` to disable the ``Cache-Control`` header.

* Drop support for working as old-style Django middleware, as support was `removed in Django 2.0 <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/2.0/#features-removed-in-2-0>`__.

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* Support Python 3.11.

* Support Django 4.1.

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* Drop support for Django 2.2, 3.0, and 3.1.

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* Drop support for Python 3.5 and 3.6.

* Add support for Python 3.9 and 3.10.

* Drop support for Django 1.11, 2.0, and 2.1.

* Add support for Django 4.0.

* Import new MIME types from Nginx, changes:

- ``.avif`` files are now served with the ``image/avif`` MIME type.

- Open Document files with extensions ``.odg``, ``.odp``, ``.ods``, and ``.odt`` are now served with their respective ``application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.*`` MIME types.

* The ``whitenoise.__version__`` attribute has been removed.
Use ``importlib.metadata.version()`` to check the version of Whitenoise if you need to.

* Requests using the ``Range`` header can no longer read beyond the end of the requested range.

Thanks to Richard Tibbles in `PR 322 <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/322>`__.

* Treat empty and ``"*"`` values for ``Accept-Encoding`` as if the client doesn’t support any encoding.

Thanks to Richard Tibbles in `PR 323 <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/323>`__.

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* Gracefully handle unparsable ``If-Modified-Since`` headers (thanks `danielegozzi <https://github.com/danielegozzi>`_).

* Test against Django 3.2 (thanks `jhnbkr <https://github.com/jhnbkr>`_).

* Add mimetype for Markdown (``.md``) files (thanks `bz2 <https://github.com/bz2>`_).

* Various documentation improvements (thanks `PeterJCLaw <https://github.com/PeterJCLaw>`_ and `AliRn76 <https://github.com/AliRn76>`_).