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Django 1.0 beta 2 release notes
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Welcome to Django 1.0 beta 2!
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This is the fourth 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 discouraged.
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What's new in Django 1.0 beta 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 :doc:`the 1.0 alpha 1 release notes
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</releases/1.0-alpha-1>`. For features which were new as of Django 1.0
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alpha 2, see :doc:`the 1.0 alpha 2 release notes
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</releases/1.0-alpha-2>`. For features which were new as of Django 1.0
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beta 1, see :doc:`the 1.0 beta 1 release notes </releases/1.0-beta>`.
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This beta release includes two major features:
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Refactored ``django.contrib.comments``
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As part of a Google Summer of Code project, Thejaswi Puthraya
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carried out a major rewrite and refactoring of Django's bundled
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comment system, greatly increasing its flexibility and
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customizability. :doc:`Full documentation
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</ref/contrib/comments/index>` is available, as well as :doc:`an
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upgrade guide </ref/contrib/comments/upgrade>` if you were using
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the previous incarnation of the comments application..
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Refactored documentation
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Django's bundled and online documentation has also been
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significantly refactored; the new documentation system uses
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`Sphinx`_ to build the docs and handle such niceties as topical
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indexes, reference documentation and cross-references within the
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docs. You can check out the new documentation `online`_ or, if you
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have Sphinx installed, build the HTML yourself from the
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documentation files bundled with Django.
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.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
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.. _online: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/
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Along with these new features, the Django team has also been hard at
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work polishing Django's codebase for the final 1.0 release; this beta
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release contains a large number of smaller improvements and bugfixes
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from the ongoing push to 1.0.
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Also, as part of its ongoing deprecation process, Django's old
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form-handling system has been removed; this means ``django.oldforms``
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no longer exists, and its various API hooks (such as automatic
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manipulators) are no longer present in Django. This system has been
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completely replaced by :doc:`the new form-handling system
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</topics/forms/index>` in ``django.forms``.
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The Django 1.0 roadmap
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One of the primary goals of this beta release is to focus attention on
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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. As of this
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beta release, Django is in its final "feature freeze" for 1.0; feature
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requests will be deferred to later releases, and the development
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effort will be focused solely on bugfixing and stability. Django is
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also now in a "string freeze"; translatable strings (labels, error
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messages, etc.) in Django's codebase will not be changed prior to the
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release, in order to allow our translators to produce the final 1.0
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version of Django's translation files.
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Following this release, we'll be conducting a final development sprint
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on August 30, 2008, based in London and coordinated online; the goal
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of this sprint will be to squash as many bugs as possible in
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anticipation of the final 1.0 release, which is currently targeted for
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**September 2, 2008**. The official Django 1.0 release party will take
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place during the first-ever DjangoCon, to be held in Mountain View,
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California, USA, September 6-7.
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What you can do to help
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=======================
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In order to provide a high-quality 1.0 release, we need your
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help. Although this beta release is, again, *not* intended for
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production use, you can help the Django team by trying out the beta
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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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* https://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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* :doc:`contributing to Django </internals/contributing/index>`
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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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