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Django 1.0 beta 1 release notes
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Welcome to Django 1.0 beta 1!
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This is the third 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 1
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Django's development trunk has been the site of nearly constant activity over
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the past year, with several major new features landing since the 0.96 release.
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For features which were new as of Django 1.0 alpha 1, see :doc:`the 1.0 alpha 1
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release notes </releases/1.0-alpha-1>`. For features which were new as of Django
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1.0 alpha 2, see :doc:`the 1.0 alpha 2 release notes </releases/1.0-alpha-2>`.
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This beta release does not contain any major new features, but does
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include several smaller updates and improvements to Django:
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Generic relations in forms and admin
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Classes are now included in ``django.contrib.contenttypes`` which
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can be used to support generic relations in both the admin
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interface and in end-user forms. See :ref:`the documentation for
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generic relations <generic-relations>` for details.
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Improved flexibility in the admin
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Following up on the refactoring of Django's administrative
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interface (``django.contrib.admin``), introduced in Django 1.0
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alpha 1, two new hooks have been added to allow customized pre-
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and post-save handling of model instances in the admin. Full
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details are in :doc:`the admin documentation </ref/contrib/admin/index>`.
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``INSERT``/``UPDATE`` distinction
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Although Django's default behavior of having a model's ``save()``
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method automatically determine whether to perform an ``INSERT`` or
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an ``UPDATE`` at the SQL level is suitable for the majority of
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cases, there are occasional situations where forcing one or the
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other is useful. As a result, models can now support an additional
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parameter to ``save()`` which can force a specific
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operation. Consult the database API documentation for details
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and important notes about appropriate use of this parameter.
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Split ``CacheMiddleware``
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Django's ``CacheMiddleware`` has been split into three classes:
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``CacheMiddleware`` itself still exists and retains all of its
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previous functionality, but it is now built from two separate
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middleware classes which handle the two parts of caching (inserting
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into and reading from the cache) separately, offering additional
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flexibility for situations where combining these functions into a
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single middleware posed problems. Full details, including updated
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notes on appropriate use, are in
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:doc:`the caching documentation </topics/cache>`.
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Removal of deprecated features
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A number of features and methods which had previously been marked
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as deprecated, and which were scheduled for removal prior to the
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1.0 release, are no longer present in Django. These include
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imports of the form library from ``django.newforms`` (now located
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simply at ``django.forms``), the ``form_for_model`` and
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``form_for_instance`` helper functions (which have been replaced
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by ``ModelForm``) and a number of deprecated features which were
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replaced by the dispatcher, file-uploading and file-storage
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refactorings introduced in the Django 1.0 alpha releases. A full
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list of these and all other backwards-incompatible changes is
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available on `the Django wiki`_.
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A number of other improvements and bugfixes have also been included:
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some tricky cases involving case-sensitivity in differing MySQL
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collations have been resolved, Windows packaging and installation has
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been improved and the method by which Django generates unique session
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identifiers has been made much more robust.
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.. _the documentation for generic relations: ../contenttypes/#generic-relations
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.. _the Django wiki: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/BackwardsIncompatibleChanges#Removedseveralmoredeprecatedfeaturesfor1.0
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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. Following this
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release, we'll be conducting a series of development sprints building
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up to the release-candidate stage, followed soon after by Django
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1.0. The timeline is projected to be:
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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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* https://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 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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