Whitenoise

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* Support Django 5.0.

* Drop Python 3.7 support.

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* Support Python 3.12.

* Changed documentation site URL from ``https://whitenoise.evans.io/`` to ``https://whitenoise.readthedocs.io/``.

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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.