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Our [mailing list][mailing-list] and #restframework IRC channel are also very active, and we've got a really impressive rate of development both on REST framework itself, and on third party packages such as the great [django-rest-framework-docs][django-rest-framework-docs] package from [Marc Gibbons][marcgibbons].
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## API changes
The 2.2 release makes a few changes to the serializer fields API, in order to make it more consistent, simple, and easier to use.
The 2.2 release makes a few changes to the API, in order to make it more consistent, simple, and easier to use.
### Cleaner to-many related fields
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Note also that the usage of the internal APIs for permission checking on the `View` class has been cleaned up slightly, and is now documented and subject to the deprecation policy in all future versions.
## More explicit hyperlink relations behavior
### More explicit hyperlink relations behavior
When using a serializer with a `HyperlinkedRelatedField` or `HyperlinkedIdentityField`, the hyperlinks would previously use absolute URLs if the serializer context included a `'request'` key, and fallback to using relative URLs otherwise. This could lead to non-obvious behavior, as it might not be clear why some serializers generated absolute URLs, and others do not.
