chore(deps): update whitenoise[brotli] requirement from >=6.8.2 to >=6.12.0

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Updates the requirements on whitenoise[brotli] to permit the latest version.

Changelog

Sourced from whitenoise[brotli]'s changelog.

6.12.0 (2026-02-27)

• Drop Python 3.9 support.
• Fix potential unauthorised file access vulnerability in "autorefesh" mode. See PR [#684](https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/issues/684) <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/684>__ for details, and a reminder that autorefresh mode has always been documented as unsuitable for production use. Thanks Seth Larson for reporting.

6.11.0 (2025-09-18)

• Support Django 6.0.

6.10.0 (2025-09-09)

• Support Python 3.14.

6.9.0 (2025-02-06)

• Support Django 5.2.

6.8.2 (2024-10-29)

• Fix compression speed gains for the thread pool when running Django’s collectstatic. The thread pool had no effect due to use of a generator for the results, a refactoring introduced when reviewing the initial PR.

  Thanks to Petr Přikryl for the investigation and fix in PR [#616](https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/issues/616) <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/616>__.

6.8.1 (2024-10-28)

• Raise any errors from threads in the whitenoise.compress command.

  Regression in 6.8.0. Thanks to Tom Grainger for the spotting this with a comment on PR [#484](https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/issues/484) <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/484#discussion_r1818989096>__.

6.8.0 (2024-10-28)

• Drop Django 3.2 to 4.1 support.

• Drop Python 3.8 support.

• Support Python 3.13.

• Fix a bug introduced in version 6.0.0 where Range requests could lead to database connection errors in other requests.

  Thanks to Per Myren for the detailed investigation and fix in PR [#612](https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/issues/612) <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/612>__.

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Commits

• 1e3a30b Version 6.12.0
• bc4c738 Merge pull request #684 from evansd/use-commonpath
• 505ed8d Use os.path.commonpath() to identify child paths
• b6d8ed4 Upgrade dependencies (#683)
• edc79de [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#682)
• 79fb2f1 Bump the github-actions group with 2 updates (#680)
• 2b245df [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#681)
• dcb50f3 Upgrade dependencies (#678)
• 1c4a746 [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#677)
• e7f970a Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 in the github-actions group (#676)
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