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authentik has required a UTF8 database since 2025.8 but only warned about it, letting installs run until something downstream failed on bytes it could not decode. The system check now fails startup and points at the docs. Closes: #25495
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Two thoughts
- We should create deprecation events for a release or two before just failing.
- The rest of
_check_encodingcan be removed after this, right? Django client encoding defaults toUTF8anyway.
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technically we announced it already https://docs.goauthentik.io/releases/2025.8/#database-encoding-requirements |
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authentik has required a UTF8 database since 2025.8 but only warned about it, letting installs run until something downstream failed on bytes it could not decode. The system check now fails startup and points at the docs.
Closes: #25495