From 5f5a61e7804beab76b92178e48cd74cae007a8ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell Keith-Magee Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:07:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a skeleton for 'little features' in the 1.3 release notes. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@14203 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/releases/1.3.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/releases/1.3.txt b/docs/releases/1.3.txt index bb71b0cf68..d681c4dbd3 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.3.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.3.txt @@ -56,6 +56,29 @@ you just won't get any of the nice new unittest2 features. .. _unittest2: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2 +Everything else +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Django :doc:`1.1 <1.1>` and :doc:`1.2 <1.2>` added +lots of big ticket items to Django, like multiple-database support, +model validation, and a session-based messages framework. However, +this focus on big features came at the cost of lots of smaller +features. + +To compensate for this, the focus of the Django 1.3 development +process has been on adding lots of smaller, long standing feature +requests. These include: + + * Improved tools for accessing and manipulating the current Site. + + * A :class:`~django.test.client.RequestFactory` for mocking + requests in tests. + + * A new test assertion -- + :meth:`~django.test.client.Client.assertNumQueries` -- making it + easier to test the database activity associated with a view. + + .. _backwards-incompatible-changes-1.3: Backwards-incompatible changes in 1.3