Kinto/kinto 4.0.0

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Breaking changes

• kinto --version was renamed kinto version
• ResourceChanged and AfterResourceChanged events now return
  old and new records for the delete action. (#751)
• Redis backends are not part of the core anymore. (#712).
  Use kinto_redis.cache instead of kinto.core.cache.redis
  Use kinto_redis.storage instead of kinto.core.storage.redis
  Use kinto_redis.permission instead of kinto.core.permission.redis
• Redis listener is not part of the core anymore. (#712)
  Use kinto.event_listeners.redis.use = kinto_redis.listeners instead of
  kinto.event_listeners.redis.use = kinto.core.listeners.redis
• Notion of unique fields was dropped from kinto.core resources.

Protocol

• Added a /__version__ endpoint with the version that has been deployed. (#747)
• Allow sub-object filtering on plural endpoints (e.g ?person.name=Eliot) (#345)
• Allow sub-object sorting on plural endpoints (e.g ?_sort=person.name) (#345)

Protocol is now at version 1.9. See API changelog_.

New features

• Added a new built-in plugin kinto.plugins.history that keeps track of every action
  that occured within a bucket and serves a stream of changes that can be synced.
  See API documentation.
• Added a new --dry-run option to command-line script migrate that will simulate
  migration operation without executing on the backend (thanks @lavish205! #685)
• Added ability to plug custom StatsD backend implementations via a new kinto.statsd_backend
  setting. Useful for Datadog™ integration for example (fixes #626).
• Added a delete-collection action to the kinto command. (#727)
• Added verbosity options to the kinto command. (#745)
• Added a built-in plugin that allows to define quotas per bucket or collection. (#752)

Bug fixes

• Fix bug where the resource events of a request targetting two groups/collection
  from different buckets would be grouped together.
• Fix crash when an invalid UTF-8 character is provided in URL
• Fix crash when provided last_modified field is not divisible (e.g. string)

Internal changes

• Huge rework of documentation after the merge of Cliquet into kinto.core (#731)
• Improve the documentation about generating docs (fixes #615)
• Switch from cliquet-pusher to kinto-pusher in Dockerfile and tutorial.
• List posssible response status on every endpoint documentation (#736)
• Remove duplicated and confusing docs about generic resources
• Replace the term protocol by API in documentation (fixes #664)
• Add load tests presets (exhaustive, read, write) in addition to the existing random. Switched integration test make loadtest-check-simulation to run the exhaustive one (fixes #258)
• Remove former Cliquet load tests (#733)
• Add a flag to to run simulation load tests on default bucket. Uses blog
  bucket by default (#733)
• Add command-line documentation (#727)
• The --backend command-line option for kinto init is not accepted as first
  parameter anymore
• Improved parts of the FAQ (#744)
• Improve 404 and 403 error handling to make them customizable. (#748)
• kinto.core resources are now schemaless by default (fixes #719)