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Django 1.0 alpha release notes
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Welcome to Django 1.0 alpha!
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This is the first 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 release 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
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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. Some of the highlights include:
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Refactored admin application (newforms-admin)
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The Django administrative interface (``django.contrib.admin``) has
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been completely refactored; admin definitions are now completely
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decoupled from model definitions (no more ``class Admin``
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declaration in models!), rewritten to use Django's new
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form-handling library (introduced in the 0.96 release as
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``django.newforms``, and now available as simply ``django.forms``)
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and redesigned with extensibility and customization in mind. Full
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documentation for the admin application is available online in the
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official Django documentation::
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http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/admin/
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Improved Unicode handling
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Django's internals have been refactored to use Unicode throughout;
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this drastically simplifies the task of dealing with
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non-Western-European content and data in Django. Additionally,
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utility functions have been provided to eash interoperability with
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third-party libraries and systems which may or may not handle
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Unicode gracefully. Details are available in Django's
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Unicode-handling documentation::
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http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/unicode/
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An improved Django ORM
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Django's object-relational mapper -- the component which provides
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the mapping between Django model classes and your database, and
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which mediates your database queries -- has been dramatically
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improved by a massive refactoring. For most users of Django this
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is backwards-compatible; the public-facing API for database
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querying underwent a few minor changes, but most of the updates
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took place in the ORM's internals. A guide to the changes,
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including backwards-incompatible modifications and mentions of new
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features opened up by this refactoring, is available on the Django
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wiki::
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http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/QuerysetRefactorBranch
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Automatic escaping of template variables
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To provide improved security against cross-site scripting (XSS)
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vulnerabilities, Django's template system now automatically
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escapes the output of variables; this behavior is configurable,
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and allows both variables and larger template constructs to be
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marked as safe (requiring no escaping) or unsafe (requiring
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escaping). A full guide to this feature is in the documentation
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for the Django template system::
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http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/#automatic-html-escaping
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There are many more new features, many bugfixes and many enhancements
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to existing features from previous releases; the ``newforms` library,
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for example, has undergone massive improvements including several
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useful add-ons in ``django.contrib`` which complement and build on
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Django's form-handling capabilities, and Django's file-uploading
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handlers have been refactored to allow finer-grained control over the
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uploading process as well as streaming uploads of large files.
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Along with these improvements and additions, there have been a number
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of backwards-incompatible changes as features in Django have been
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fleshed out and APIs have been finalized for the 1.0 release. A
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complete guide to these changes will be available as part of the final
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Django 1.0 release, and a comprehensive list of backwards-incompatible
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changes is also available on the Django wiki for those who want to
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begin developing and testing their upgrade process::
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http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/BackwardsIncompatibleChanges
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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 which need to be resolved before the final release. Following
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this release, we'll be conducting a series of sprints building up to a
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series of beta releases and finally a release-candidate stage,
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followed soon after by Django 1.0. The timeline is projected to be:
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* August 1, 2008: Sprint (based in Washington, D.C. and online).
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* August 5, 2008: Django 1.0 beta 1 release. This will also constitute
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the feature freeze for 1.0; any feature to be included in 1.0 must
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be completed and in trunk by this time.
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* August 8, 2008: Sprint (based in Lawrence, KS and online).
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* August 12, 2008: Django 1.0 beta 2 release.
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* August 15, 2008: Sprint (based in Austin, TX and online).
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* August 19, 2008: Django 1.0 release candidate 1.
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* August 22, 2008: Sprint (based in Portland, OR and online).
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* August 26, 2008: Django 1.0 release candidate 2.
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* September 2, 2008: Django 1.0 final release. The official Django 1.0
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release party will take place during the first-ever DjangoCon, to be
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held in Mountain View, CA 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 and open new issues if no existing ticket
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corresponds to a problem you're running into::
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http://code.djangoproject.com/timeline
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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. Django's online documentation also
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includes pointers on how to contribute to Django::
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http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/contributing/
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Contributions on any level -- from developing code to writing
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documentation to simply triaging tickets and helping to test proposed
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bugifxes -- are always welcome and always appreciated.
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