Major schema changes not reported in 3.7.0 changelog

[mattjegan]

Checklist

• I have verified that that issue exists against the master branch of Django REST framework.
• I have searched for similar issues in both open and closed tickets and cannot find a duplicate.
• This is not a usage question. (Those should be directed to the discussion group instead.)
• This cannot be dealt with as a third party library. (We prefer new functionality to be in the form of third party libraries where possible.)
• I have reduced the issue to the simplest possible case.
• I have included a failing test as a pull request. (If you are unable to do so we can still accept the issue.)

Steps to reproduce

• Looks at the 3.7.0 release notes
• Notice Refactor schema generation to allow per-view customisation #5354 is not referenced anywhere.

Expected behavior

Ideally, there would be an entry noting a breaking change on something like SchemaGenerator().get_serializer_fields(...) since it is now a part of AutoSchema. For my use case I went from:

generator = SchemaGenerator()
return generator.get_serializer_fields('/', 'POST', view)

to

generator = AutoSchema()
generator.view = view
return generator.get_serializer_fields('/', 'POST')

however I needed to go through the issue tracker and recent PRs to find that this was the solution.

Actual behavior

The changelog should have a correct reference to the breaking change and the solution to fix it.

Also, thanks for the awesome work you guys do! 😄

[carltongibson]

Hmmm yes. It’s in the release announcement, but this is a an oversight.

I obviously forgot that bit.

I’d take a PR here. 👍🏽

And, you’re welcome.

[mattjegan]

No worries, I'll make a PR when I get a chance, probably a couple days away.