History

The original drf-flex-fields was developed and maintained by Robert Singer between 2018 and 2023. However, in 2023 maintenance appeared to stop with no further commits and issues and pull-requests remaining unanswered.

In March 2026, Django REST Framework 3.17.0 removed coreapi support, which unfortunately broke the existing package. Although the immediate fix was simple, the project was due for broader modernization, including tooling updates, Python 2 to 3 cleanup, dependency version maintenance and proper documentation.

This fork exists because drf-flex-fields is used in the OpenBook project, and we want to reduce supply-chain risk from outdated dependencies while keeping this package healthy and maintained. Please join the community and help us with this mission. Oh, and keep your own packages up to date and maintained, will you? :-)