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Django 1.6 release notes - UNDER DEVELOPMENT
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============================================
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.. note::
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Dedicated to Malcolm Tredinnick
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On March 17, 2013, the Django project and the free software community lost
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a very dear friend and developer.
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Malcolm was a long-time contributor to Django, a model community member, a
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brilliant mind, and a friend. His contributions to Django — and to many other
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open source projects — are nearly impossible to enumerate. Many on the core
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Django team had their first patches reviewed by him; his mentorship enriched
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us. His consideration, patience, and dedication will always be an inspiration
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to us.
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This release of Django is for Malcolm.
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-- The Django Developers
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Welcome to Django 1.6!
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These release notes cover the `new features`_, as well as some `backwards
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incompatible changes`_ you'll want to be aware of when upgrading from Django
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1.5 or older versions. We've also dropped some features, which are detailed in
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:doc:`our deprecation plan </internals/deprecation>`, and we've `begun the
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deprecation process for some features`_.
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.. _`new features`: `What's new in Django 1.6`_
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.. _`backwards incompatible changes`: `Backwards incompatible changes in 1.6`_
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.. _`begun the deprecation process for some features`: `Features deprecated in 1.6`_
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What's new in Django 1.6
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========================
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Simplified default project and app templates
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The default templates used by :djadmin:`startproject` and :djadmin:`startapp`
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have been simplified and modernized. The :doc:`admin
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</ref/contrib/admin/index>` is now enabled by default in new projects; the
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:doc:`sites </ref/contrib/sites>` framework no longer is. :ref:`Language
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detection <how-django-discovers-language-preference>` and :ref:`clickjacking
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prevention <clickjacking-prevention>` are turned on.
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If the default templates don't suit your tastes, you can use :ref:`custom
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project and app templates <custom-app-and-project-templates>`.
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Improved transaction management
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Django's transaction management was overhauled. Database-level autocommit is
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now turned on by default. This makes transaction handling more explicit and
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should improve performance. The existing APIs were deprecated, and new APIs
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were introduced, as described in the :doc:`transaction management docs
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</topics/db/transactions>`.
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Please review carefully the list of :ref:`known backwards-incompatibilities
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<transactions-upgrading-from-1.5>` to determine if you need to make changes in
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your code.
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Persistent database connections
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Django now supports reusing the same database connection for several requests.
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This avoids the overhead of re-establishing a connection at the beginning of
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each request. For backwards compatibility, this feature is disabled by
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default. See :ref:`persistent-database-connections` for details.
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Time zone aware aggregation
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The support for :doc:`time zones </topics/i18n/timezones>` introduced in
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Django 1.4 didn't work well with :meth:`QuerySet.dates()
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<django.db.models.query.QuerySet.dates>`: aggregation was always performed in
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UTC. This limitation was lifted in Django 1.6. Use :meth:`QuerySet.datetimes()
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<django.db.models.query.QuerySet.datetimes>` to perform time zone aware
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aggregation on a :class:`~django.db.models.DateTimeField`.
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Support for savepoints in SQLite
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Django 1.6 adds support for savepoints in SQLite, with some :ref:`limitations
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<savepoints-in-sqlite>`.
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``BinaryField`` model field
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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A new :class:`django.db.models.BinaryField` model field allows to store raw
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binary data in the database.
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Minor features
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* Authentication backends can raise ``PermissionDenied`` to immediately fail
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the authentication chain.
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* The HttpOnly flag can be set on the CSRF cookie with
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:setting:`CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY`.
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* The ``assertQuerysetEqual()`` now checks for undefined order and raises
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``ValueError`` if undefined order is spotted. The order is seen as
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undefined if the given ``QuerySet`` isn't ordered and there are more than
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one ordered values to compare against.
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* Added :meth:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet.earliest` for symmetry with
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:meth:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet.latest`.
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* In addition to :lookup:`year`, :lookup:`month` and :lookup:`day`, the ORM
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now supports :lookup:`hour`, :lookup:`minute` and :lookup:`second` lookups.
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* Django now wraps all PEP-249 exceptions.
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* The default widgets for :class:`~django.forms.EmailField`,
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:class:`~django.forms.URLField`, :class:`~django.forms.IntegerField`,
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:class:`~django.forms.FloatField` and :class:`~django.forms.DecimalField` use
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the new type attributes available in HTML5 (type='email', type='url',
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type='number'). Note that due to erratic support of the ``number`` input type
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with localized numbers in current browsers, Django only uses it when numeric
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fields are not localized.
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* The ``number`` argument for :ref:`lazy plural translations
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<lazy-plural-translations>` can be provided at translation time rather than
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at definition time.
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* For custom management commands: Verification of the presence of valid
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settings in commands that ask for it by using the
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:attr:`~django.core.management.BaseCommand.can_import_settings` internal
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option is now performed independently from handling of the locale that
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should be active during the execution of the command. The latter can now be
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influenced by the new
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:attr:`~django.core.management.BaseCommand.leave_locale_alone` internal
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option. See :ref:`management-commands-and-locales` for more details.
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* The :attr:`~django.views.generic.edit.DeletionMixin.success_url` of
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:class:`~django.views.generic.edit.DeletionMixin` is now interpolated with
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its ``object``\'s ``__dict__``.
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* :class:`~django.http.HttpResponseRedirect` and
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:class:`~django.http.HttpResponsePermanentRedirect` now provide an ``url``
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attribute (equivalent to the URL the response will redirect to).
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* The ``MemcachedCache`` cache backend now uses the latest :mod:`pickle`
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protocol available.
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* Added :class:`~django.contrib.messages.views.SuccessMessageMixin` which
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provides a ``success_message`` attribute for
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:class:`~django.views.generic.edit.FormView` based classes.
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* Added the :attr:`django.db.models.ForeignKey.db_constraint` and
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:attr:`django.db.models.ManyToManyField.db_constraint` options.
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* The jQuery library embedded in the admin has been upgraded to version 1.9.1.
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* Syndication feeds (:mod:`django.contrib.syndication`) can now pass extra
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context through to feed templates using a new `Feed.get_context_data()`
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callback.
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* The admin list columns have a ``column-<field_name>`` class in the HTML
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so the columns header can be styled with CSS, e.g. to set a column width.
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* The isolation level can be customized under PostgreSQL.
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* The :ttag:`blocktrans` template tag now respects
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:setting:`TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID` for variables not present in the
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context, just like other template constructs.
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* SimpleLazyObjects will now present more helpful representations in shell
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debugging situations.
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* Generic :class:`~django.contrib.gis.db.models.GeometryField` is now editable
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with the OpenLayers widget in the admin.
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* The :meth:`Model.save() <django.db.models.Model.save()>` will do
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``UPDATE`` - if not updated - ``INSERT`` instead of ``SELECT`` - if not
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found ``INSERT`` else ``UPDATE`` in case the model's primary key is set.
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* The documentation contains a :doc:`deployment checklist
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</howto/deployment/checklist>`.
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* The :djadmin:`diffsettings` comand gained a ``--all`` option.
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* ``django.forms.fields.Field.__init__`` now calls ``super()``, allowing
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field mixins to implement ``__init__()`` methods that will reliably be
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called.
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* The ``validate_max`` parameter was added to ``BaseFormSet`` and
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:func:`~django.forms.formsets.formset_factory`, and ``ModelForm`` and inline
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versions of the same. The behavior of validation for formsets with
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``max_num`` was clarified. The previously undocumented behavior that
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hardened formsets against memory exhaustion attacks was documented,
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and the undocumented limit of the higher of 1000 or ``max_num`` forms
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was changed so it is always 1000 more than ``max_num``.
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* Added ``BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher`` to resolve the password truncation issue
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with bcrypt.
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Backwards incompatible changes in 1.6
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=====================================
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.. warning::
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In addition to the changes outlined in this section, be sure to review the
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:doc:`deprecation plan </internals/deprecation>` for any features that
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have been removed. If you haven't updated your code within the
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deprecation timeline for a given feature, its removal may appear as a
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backwards incompatible change.
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New transaction management model
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Behavior changes
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Database-level autocommit is enabled by default in Django 1.6. While this
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doesn't change the general spirit of Django's transaction management, there
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are a few known backwards-incompatibities, described in the :ref:`transaction
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management docs <transactions-upgrading-from-1.5>`. You should review your
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code to determine if you're affected.
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Savepoints and ``assertNumQueries``
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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The changes in transaction management may result in additional statements to
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create, release or rollback savepoints. This is more likely to happen with
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SQLite, since it didn't support savepoints until this release.
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If tests using :meth:`~django.test.TestCase.assertNumQueries` fail because of
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a higher number of queries than expected, check that the extra queries are
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related to savepoints, and adjust the expected number of queries accordingly.
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Autocommit option for PostgreSQL
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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In previous versions, database-level autocommit was only an option for
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PostgreSQL, and it was disabled by default. This option is now :ref:`ignored
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<postgresql-autocommit-mode>` and can be removed.
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Addition of ``QuerySet.datetimes()``
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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When the :doc:`time zone support </topics/i18n/timezones>` added in Django 1.4
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was active, :meth:`QuerySet.dates() <django.db.models.query.QuerySet.dates>`
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lookups returned unexpected results, because the aggregation was performed in
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UTC. To fix this, Django 1.6 introduces a new API, :meth:`QuerySet.datetimes()
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<django.db.models.query.QuerySet.datetimes>`. This requires a few changes in
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your code.
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``QuerySet.dates()`` returns ``date`` objects
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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:meth:`QuerySet.dates() <django.db.models.query.QuerySet.dates>` now returns a
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list of :class:`~datetime.date`. It used to return a list of
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:class:`~datetime.datetime`.
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:meth:`QuerySet.datetimes() <django.db.models.query.QuerySet.datetimes>`
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returns a list of :class:`~datetime.datetime`.
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``QuerySet.dates()`` no longer usable on ``DateTimeField``
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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:meth:`QuerySet.dates() <django.db.models.query.QuerySet.dates>` raises an
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error if it's used on :class:`~django.db.models.DateTimeField` when time
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zone support is active. Use :meth:`QuerySet.datetimes()
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<django.db.models.query.QuerySet.datetimes>` instead.
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``date_hierarchy`` requires time zone definitions
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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The :attr:`~django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.date_hierarchy` feature of the
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admin now relies on :meth:`QuerySet.datetimes()
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<django.db.models.query.QuerySet.datetimes>` when it's used on a
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:class:`~django.db.models.DateTimeField`.
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This requires time zone definitions in the database when :setting:`USE_TZ` is
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``True``. :ref:`Learn more <database-time-zone-definitions>`.
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``date_list`` in generic views requires time zone definitions
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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For the same reason, accessing ``date_list`` in the context of a date-based
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generic view requires time zone definitions in the database when the view is
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based on a :class:`~django.db.models.DateTimeField` and :setting:`USE_TZ` is
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``True``. :ref:`Learn more <database-time-zone-definitions>`.
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New lookups may clash with model fields
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Django 1.6 introduces ``hour``, ``minute``, and ``second`` lookups on
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:class:`~django.db.models.DateTimeField`. If you had model fields called
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``hour``, ``minute``, or ``second``, the new lookups will clash with you field
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names. Append an explicit :lookup:`exact` lookup if this is an issue.
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``BooleanField`` no longer defaults to ``False``
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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When a :class:`~django.db.models.BooleanField` doesn't have an explicit
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:attr:`~django.db.models.Field.default`, the implicit default value is
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``None``. In previous version of Django, it was ``False``, but that didn't
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represent accurately the lack of a value.
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Code that relies on the default value being ``False`` may raise an exception
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when saving new model instances to the database, because ``None`` isn't an
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acceptable value for a :class:`~django.db.models.BooleanField`. You should
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either specify ``default=False`` in the field definition, or ensure the field
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is set to ``True`` or ``False`` before saving the object.
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Translations and comments in templates
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Extraction of translations after comments
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Extraction of translatable literals from templates with the
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:djadmin:`makemessages` command now correctly detects i18n constructs when
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they are located after a ``{#`` / ``#}``-type comment on the same line. E.g.:
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.. code-block:: html+django
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{# A comment #}{% trans "This literal was incorrectly ignored. Not anymore" %}
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Location of translator comments
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Validation of the placement of :ref:`translator-comments-in-templates`
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specified using ``{#`` / ``#}`` is now stricter. All translator comments not
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located at the end of their respective lines in a template are ignored and a
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warning is generated by :djadmin:`makemessages` when it finds them. E.g.:
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.. code-block:: html+django
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{# Translators: This is ignored #}{% trans "Translate me" %}
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{{ title }}{# Translators: Extracted and associated with 'Welcome' below #}
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<h1>{% trans "Welcome" %}</h1>
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Quoting in :func:`~django.core.urlresolvers.reverse`
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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When reversing URLs, Django didn't apply :func:`~django.utils.http.urlquote`
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to arguments before interpolating them in URL patterns. This bug is fixed in
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Django 1.6. If you worked around this bug by applying URL quoting before
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passing arguments to :func:`~django.core.urlresolvers.reverse`, this may
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result in double-quoting. If this happens, simply remove the URL quoting from
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your code.
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Storage of IP addresses in the comments app
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The :doc:`comments </ref/contrib/comments/index>` app now uses a
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``GenericIPAddressField`` for storing commenters' IP addresses, to support
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comments submitted from IPv6 addresses. Until now, it stored them in an
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``IPAddressField``, which is only meant to support IPv4. When saving a comment
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made from an IPv6 address, the address would be silently truncated on MySQL
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databases, and raise an exception on Oracle. You will need to change the
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column type in your database to benefit from this change.
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For MySQL, execute this query on your project's database:
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.. code-block:: sql
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ALTER TABLE django_comments MODIFY ip_address VARCHAR(39);
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For Oracle, execute this query:
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.. code-block:: sql
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ALTER TABLE DJANGO_COMMENTS MODIFY (ip_address VARCHAR2(39));
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If you do not apply this change, the behaviour is unchanged: on MySQL, IPv6
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addresses are silently truncated; on Oracle, an exception is generated. No
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database change is needed for SQLite or PostgreSQL databases.
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Percent literals in ``cursor.execute`` queries
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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When you are running raw SQL queries through the
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:ref:`cursor.execute <executing-custom-sql>` method, the rule about doubling
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percent literals (``%``) inside the query has been unified. Past behavior
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depended on the database backend. Now, across all backends, you only need to
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double literal percent characters if you are also providing replacement
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parameters. For example::
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# No parameters, no percent doubling
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cursor.execute("SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE baz = '30%'")
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# Parameters passed, non-placeholders have to be doubled
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cursor.execute("SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE baz = '30%%' and id = %s", [self.id])
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``SQLite`` users need to check and update such queries.
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Miscellaneous
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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* The ``django.db.models.query.EmptyQuerySet`` can't be instantiated any more -
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it is only usable as a marker class for checking if
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:meth:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet.none` has been called:
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``isinstance(qs.none(), EmptyQuerySet)``
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* If your CSS/Javascript code used to access HTML input widgets by type, you
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should review it as ``type='text'`` widgets might be now output as
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``type='email'``, ``type='url'`` or ``type='number'`` depending on their
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corresponding field type.
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* Form field's :attr:`~django.forms.Field.error_messages` that contain a
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placeholder should now always use a named placeholder (``"Value '%(value)s' is
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too big"`` instead of ``"Value '%s' is too big"``). See the corresponding
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field documentation for details about the names of the placeholders. The
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changes in 1.6 particularly affect :class:`~django.forms.DecimalField` and
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:class:`~django.forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField`.
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Features deprecated in 1.6
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==========================
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Transaction management APIs
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Transaction management was completely overhauled in Django 1.6, and the
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current APIs are deprecated:
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- ``django.middleware.transaction.TransactionMiddleware``
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- ``django.db.transaction.autocommit``
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- ``django.db.transaction.commit_on_success``
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- ``django.db.transaction.commit_manually``
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- the ``TRANSACTIONS_MANAGED`` setting
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The reasons for this change and the upgrade path are described in the
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:ref:`transactions documentation <transactions-upgrading-from-1.5>`.
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``django.contrib.comments``
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Django's comment framework has been deprecated and is no longer supported. It
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will be available in Django 1.6 and 1.7, and removed in Django 1.8. Most users
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will be better served with a custom solution, or a hosted product like Disqus__.
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The code formerly known as ``django.contrib.comments`` is `still available
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in an external repository`__.
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__ https://disqus.com/
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__ https://github.com/django/django-contrib-comments
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Support for PostgreSQL versions older than 8.4
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The end of upstream support periods was reached in December 2011 for
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PostgreSQL 8.2 and in February 2013 for 8.3. As a consequence, Django 1.6 sets
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8.4 as the minimum PostgreSQL version it officially supports.
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You're strongly encouraged to use the most recent version of PostgreSQL
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available, because of performance improvements and to take advantage of the
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native streaming replication available in PostgreSQL 9.x.
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Changes to :ttag:`cycle` and :ttag:`firstof`
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The template system generally escapes all variables to avoid XSS attacks.
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However, due to an accident of history, the :ttag:`cycle` and :ttag:`firstof`
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tags render their arguments as-is.
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Django 1.6 starts a process to correct this inconsistency. The ``future``
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template library provides alternate implementations of :ttag:`cycle` and
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:ttag:`firstof` that autoescape their inputs. If you're using these tags,
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you're encourage to include the following line at the top of your templates to
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enable the new behavior::
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{% load cycle from future %}
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or::
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{% load firstof from future %}
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The tags implementing the old behavior have been deprecated, and in Django
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1.8, the old behavior will be replaced with the new behavior. To ensure
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compatibility with future versions of Django, existing templates should be
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modified to use the ``future`` versions.
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If necessary, you can temporarily disable auto-escaping with
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:func:`~django.utils.safestring.mark_safe` or :ttag:`{% autoescape off %}
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<autoescape>`.
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``SEND_BROKEN_LINK_EMAILS`` setting
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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:class:`~django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware` used to provide basic
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reporting of broken links by email when ``SEND_BROKEN_LINK_EMAILS`` is set to
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``True``.
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Because of intractable ordering problems between
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:class:`~django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware` and
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:class:`~django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware`, this feature was split
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out into a new middleware:
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:class:`~django.middleware.common.BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware`.
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If you're relying on this feature, you should add
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``'django.middleware.common.BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware'`` to your
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:setting:`MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES` setting and remove ``SEND_BROKEN_LINK_EMAILS``
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from your settings.
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``_has_changed`` method on widgets
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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If you defined your own form widgets and defined the ``_has_changed`` method
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on a widget, you should now define this method on the form field itself.
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``module_name`` model meta attribute
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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``Model._meta.module_name`` was renamed to ``model_name``. Despite being a
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private API, it will go through a regular deprecation path.
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``get_query_set`` and similar methods renamed to ``get_queryset``
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Methods that return a ``QuerySet`` such as ``Manager.get_query_set`` or
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``ModelAdmin.queryset`` have been renamed to ``get_queryset``.
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``shortcut`` view and URLconf
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The ``shortcut`` view was moved from ``django.views.defaults`` to
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``django.contrib.contenttypes.views`` shortly after the 1.0 release, but the
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old location was never deprecated. This oversight was corrected in Django 1.6
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and you should now use the new location.
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The URLconf ``django.conf.urls.shortcut`` was also deprecated. If you're
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including it in an URLconf, simply replace::
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(r'^prefix/', include('django.conf.urls.shortcut')),
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with::
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(r'^prefix/(?P<content_type_id>\d+)/(?P<object_id>.*)/$', 'django.contrib.contenttypes.views.shortcut'),
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``ModelForm`` without ``fields`` or ``exclude``
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Previously, if you wanted a :class:`~django.forms.ModelForm` to use all fields on
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the model, you could simply omit the ``Meta.fields`` attribute, and all fields
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would be used.
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This can lead to security problems where fields are added to the model and,
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unintentionally, automatically become editable by end users. In some cases,
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particular with boolean fields, it is possible for this problem to be completely
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invisible. This is a form of `Mass assignment vulnerability
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_assignment_vulnerability>`_.
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For this reason, this behaviour is deprecated, and using the ``Meta.exclude``
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option is strongly discouraged. Instead, all fields that are intended for
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inclusion in the form should be listed explicitly in the ``fields`` attribute.
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If this security concern really does not apply in your case, there is a shortcut
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to explicitly indicate that all fields should be used - use the special value
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``"__all__"`` for the fields attribute::
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class MyModelForm(ModelForm):
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class Meta:
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fields = "__all__"
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model = MyModel
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If you have custom ``ModelForms`` that only need to be used in the admin, there
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is another option. The admin has its own methods for defining fields
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(``fieldsets`` etc.), and so adding a list of fields to the ``ModelForm`` is
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|
redundant. Instead, simply omit the ``Meta`` inner class of the ``ModelForm``,
|
|
or omit the ``Meta.model`` attribute. Since the ``ModelAdmin`` subclass knows
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|
which model it is for, it can add the necessary attributes to derive a
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functioning ``ModelForm``. This behaviour also works for earlier Django
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|
versions.
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``UpdateView`` and ``CreateView`` without explicit fields
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|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The generic views :class:`~django.views.generic.edit.CreateView` and
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:class:`~django.views.generic.edit.UpdateView`, and anything else derived from
|
|
:class:`~django.views.generic.edit.ModelFormMixin`, are vulnerable to the
|
|
security problem described in the section above, because they can automatically
|
|
create a ``ModelForm`` that uses all fields for a model.
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|
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For this reason, if you use these views for editing models, you must also supply
|
|
the ``fields`` attribute, which is a list of model fields and works in the same
|
|
way as the :class:`~django.forms.ModelForm` ``Meta.fields`` attribute. Alternatively,
|
|
you can set set the ``form_class`` attribute to a ``ModelForm`` that explicitly
|
|
defines the fields to be used. Defining an ``UpdateView`` or ``CreateView``
|
|
subclass to be used with a model but without an explicit list of fields is
|
|
deprecated.
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