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Improvements to WhiteNoise:

• Serve media as well as static files.
• Save media with unique filenames, so they can be deduplicated and cached forever.
• Store the original name for deduplicated files in the UniqueFile model.
• Do not crash the collectstatic management command when a referenced file is not found or has an unknown scheme.
• Add django-pipeline integration.
• Add support for Django 1.6 via monkey patching.
• Strip the Vary header for static file responses via middleware, to work around an IE bug. This should come before SessionMiddleware in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES. See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/23410136

Settings:

• IXC_WHITENOISE_DEDUPE_EXTENSIONS - A dictionary mapping extension variations to canonical versions. Unique files will use the canonical version. Default: {'.jpeg': '.jpg', '.yaml': '.yml'}.

• IXC_WHITENOISE_DEDUPE_PATH_PREFIX - Unique files will be saved into this directory. Their original path will be retained, but their filename will be replaced with a unique content hash. Default: dd.

• IXC_WHITENOISE_ORIGINAL_BASENAME - Append an abbreviated content hash to the original basename instead of replacing it with a full content hash. This reduces deduplicate, but may be better for SEO. Default: False.

• IXC_WHITENOISE_ORIGINAL_BASENAME_HASH_LENGTH - The number of characters from the full content hash to use as an abbreviated hash. Default: 7.

Management commands:

• deduplicate_unique_storage - Finds all file fields in all models that use UniqueStorage and re-saves them to deduplicate. The original files are not removed. Files that have already been deduplicated will be skipped.