Summary

Add release notes for Djblets 5.3.

Review Request #14759 — Created Jan. 5, 2026 and updated Jan. 6, 2026, 1:26 p.m.

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chipx86

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Djblets

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release-5.x

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Description

Djblets 5.3 is a large release, featureing caching improvements, new
dynamic page state injection support, general rate limiting, cache
locks, layered siteconfig lookups, new templatetag support, and a whole
lot more.

This change introduces the release notes for this release, covering
usage information and examples where appropriate.

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Built the docs. Checked for bad links, build errors, and any obvious
errors in the text.

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Add release notes for Djblets 5.3. Djblets 5.3 is a large release, featureing caching improvements, new dynamic page state injection support, general rate limiting, cache locks, layered siteconfig lookups, new templatetag support, and a whole lot more. This change introduces the release notes for this release, covering usage information and examples where appropriate.	3fa6f62e2f2abb2333eb49248c69a9e717289b5d

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Typo in description: featureing -> featuring	david	Jan. 6, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
We don't have anything referencing this.	david	Jan. 6, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
This is a little bit confusing. Can you maybe clarify that once the deprecated modules are removed, this dependency should …	david	Jan. 6, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
Grammar here is a bit weird ("TemplateHook are a powerful way")	david	Jan. 6, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
Let's say "switch to using django-assert-queries directly"	david	Jan. 6, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
Typo: cam -> can	david	Jan. 6, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
This should be in a djblets.util.templatetags section, not djblets.util.decorators	david	Jan. 6, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
Typo: code-block: html+django -> code-block:: html+django (needs 2 colons)	david	Jan. 6, 2026, 1:26 p.m.

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Typo in description: featureing -> featuring

docs/releasenotes/5.3.rst (Diff revision 1)
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We don't have anything referencing this.
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docs/releasenotes/5.3.rst (Diff revision 1)

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This is a little bit confusing. Can you maybe clarify that once the deprecated modules are removed, this dependency should be used directly instead?

docs/releasenotes/5.3.rst (Diff revision 1)
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Grammar here is a bit weird ("TemplateHook are a powerful way")
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docs/releasenotes/5.3.rst (Diff revision 1)
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Let's say "switch to using django-assert-queries directly"
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docs/releasenotes/5.3.rst (Diff revision 1)
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Typo: cam -> can
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docs/releasenotes/5.3.rst (Diff revision 1)

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This should be in a djblets.util.templatetags section, not djblets.util.decorators

docs/releasenotes/5.3.rst (Diff revision 1)

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Typo: code-block: html+django -> code-block:: html+django (needs 2 colons)