1.0 alpha 2 release notes
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Django 1.0 alpha 2 release notes
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Welcome to Django 1.0 alpha 2!
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This is the second in a series of preview/development releases leading
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up to the eventual release of Django 1.0, currently scheduled to take
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place in early September 2008. This releases is primarily targeted at
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developers who are interested in testing the Django codebase and
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helping to identify and resolve bugs prior to the final 1.0 release.
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As such, this release is *not* intended for production use, and any
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such use is strongly discouraged.
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What's new in Django 1.0 alpha 2
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Django's development trunk has been the site of nearly constant
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activity over the past year, with several major new features landing
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since the 0.96 release. For features which were new as of Django 1.0
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alpha 1, see `the 1.0 alpha 1 release notes`_. Since the 1.0 alpha 1
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release several new features have landed, including:
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``django.contrib.gis`` (`GeoDjango`_)
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A project over a year in the making, this adds world-class GIS
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(`Geographic Information Systems`_) support to Django, in the form
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of a ``contrib`` application. `Its documentation`_ is currently
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being maintained externally, and will be merged into the main
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Django documentation prior to the final 1.0 release. Huge thanks
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go to Justin Bronn, Jeremy Dunck, Brett Hoerner and Travis Pinney
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for their efforts in creating and completing this feature.
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Pluggable file storage
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Django's built-in ``FileField`` and ``ImageField`` now can take
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advantage of pluggable file-storage backends, allowing extensive
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customization of where and how uploaded files get stored by
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Django. For details, see `the files documentation`_; big thanks go
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to Marty Alchin for putting in the hard work to get this
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completed.
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Jython compatibility
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Thanks to a lot of work from Leo Soto during a Google Summer of
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Code project, Django's codebase has been refactored to remove
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incompatibilities with `Jython`_, an implementation of Python
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written in Java, which runs Python code on the Java Virtual
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Machine. Django is now compatible with the forthcoming Jython 2.5
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release.
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There are many other new features and improvements in this release,
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including two major performance boosts: strings marked for translation
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using `Django's internationalization system`_ now consume far less
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memory, and Django's internal dispatcher -- which is invoked
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frequently during request/response processing and when working with
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Django's object-relational mapper -- is now significantly faster.
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.. _the 1.0 alpha 1 release notes: ../release_notes_1.0_alpha/
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.. _GeoDjango: http://geodjango.org/
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.. _Geographic Information Systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system
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.. _Its documentation: http://geodjango.org/docs/
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.. _the files documentation: ../files/
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.. _Jython: http://www.jython.org/
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.. _Django's internationalization system: ../i18n/
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The Django 1.0 roadmap
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One of the primary goals of this alpha release is to focus attention
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on the remaining features to be implemented for Django 1.0, and on the
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bugs that need to be resolved before the final release. Following this
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release, we'll be conducting a series of development sprints building
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up to the beta and release-candidate stages, followed soon after by
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Django 1.0. The timeline is projected to be:
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* **August 14, 2008: Django 1.0 beta release.** Past this point Django
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will be in a "feature freeze" for the 1.0 release; after Django 1.0
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beta, the development focus will be solely on bug fixes and
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stabilization.
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* August 15, 2008: Sprint (based in Austin, Texas, USA, and online).
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* August 17, 2008: Sprint (based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and online).
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* **August 21, 2008: Django 1.0 release candidate 1.** At this point,
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all strings marked for translation within Django's codebase will be
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frozen, to provide contributors time to check and finalize all of
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Django's bundled translation files prior to the final 1.0 release.
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* August 22, 2008: Sprint (based in Portland, Oregon, USA, and online).
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* **August 26, 2008: Django 1.0 release candidate 2.**
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* August 30, 2008: Sprint (based in London, England, UK, and online).
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* **September 2, 2008: Django 1.0 final release.** The official Django
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1.0 release party will take place during the first-ever DjangoCon,
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to be held in Mountain View, California, USA, September 6-7.
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Of course, like any estimated timeline, this is subject to change as
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requirements dictate. The latest information will always be available
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on the Django project wiki:
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http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/VersionOneRoadmap
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What you can do to help
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In order to provide a high-quality 1.0 release, we need your
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help. Although this alpha release is, again, *not* intended for
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production use, you can help the Django team by trying out the alpha
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codebase in a safe test environment and reporting any bugs or issues
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you encounter. The Django ticket tracker is the central place to
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search for open issues:
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http://code.djangoproject.com/timeline
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Please open new tickets if no existing ticket corresponds to a problem
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you're running into.
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Additionally, discussion of Django development, including progress
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toward the 1.0 release, takes place daily on the django-developers
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mailing list:
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http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers
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...and in the ``#django-dev`` IRC channel on ``irc.freenode.net``. If
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you're interested in helping out with Django's development, feel free
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to join the discussions there.
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Django's online documentation also includes pointers on how to
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contribute to Django:
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http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/contributing/
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Contributions on any level -- developing code, writing
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documentation or simply triaging tickets and helping to test proposed
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bugfixes -- are always welcome and appreciated.
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