Hi, I documented the procedure I used to create the release:
https://storm.canonical.com/ReleaseProcedure I would eventually like to automate the release process, but for now documentation will have to do. Thanks, J. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Jamu Kakar<[email protected]> wrote: > The Storm team is proud to announce Storm 0.15! > > The new release includes a number of new features: > > * New GenerationalCache object cache > * New ResultSet.find method and other improvements > * New Neg and Coalesce expressions > * Python 2.6 is supported > * New Ubuntu packages > > Read on for more... > > > New GenerationalCache object cache > ---------------------------------- > > A new GenerationalCache is available. It can be used in place of > the default Cache and will likely become the default in the future. > You can use it by passing it as a parameter to Store: > > from storm.locals import Store, create_database > from storm.cache import GenerationalCache > > uri = "<uri>" > store = Store(create_database(uri), GenerationalCache()) > > Also note that the default cache size has been increased from 100 > objects to 1000. Please try the new cache and report your results > to mailing list. > > > New ResultSet.find method and other improvements > ------------------------------------------------ > > The new ResultSet.find method works just like ReferenceSet.find. It > takes a list of expressions and uses them to filter the items in the > original result: > > result = store.find(Foo, Foo.bar == 42) > result = result.find(Foo.baz > 7) > > In addition to the new find, ResultSet.set works with expressions and > ResultSet.remove returns the number of rows that were deleted. > > > New Neg and Coalesce expressions > -------------------------------- > > The new Neg expression prepends a minus sign to the expression it > wraps, providing unary minus. The new Coalesce expression takes an > arbitrary number of columns and calls the COALESCE function with > them. > > > Python 2.6 is supported > ----------------------- > > Python 2.6 is now fully supported with all tests passing. In > addition, Storm's C extension compiles for python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6. > The PostgreSQL backend now requires pyscopg2 2.0.7 or newer. > > > New Ubuntu packages > ------------------- > > This release includes official packages for all supported releases > of Ubuntu. They are available in the Storm team's PPA: > > https://edge.launchpad.net/~storm/+archive/ppa > > You can find the release files at: > > https://launchpad.net/storm/+download > > You can always get the latest source code from Launchpad: > > bzr branch lp:storm > > As always, you can join us in channel #storm on irc.freenode.net and > on the storm mailing list: > > https://lists.canonical.com/mailman/listinfo/storm > > > Detailed changelog > ------------------ > > Improvements: > > * Add support for latest version on Django by not checking arguments > passed to _cursor. > * Added support for using Expressions with ResultSet.set(). > * The default cache size was changed from 100 to 1000 objects. > * Added the new GenerationalCache with a faster implementation of > the caching API (by Jeroen Vermeulen). This will likely become > the default implementation in the future, so please test it if > possible. > * A new UUID property type has been added. It depends on the uuid > module introduced in Python 2.5 to represent values. > * The StoreDataManager now gets passed a transaction manager from the > ZStorm utility. This will make it easier to support non-default > transaction managers in the future. > * An adapter is now available for converting ISQLObjectResultSet > objects to IResultSet. This is intended to help in gradual porting > SQLObject applications to Storm's native API (bug #338184, by Gavin > Panella). > * If a disconnection occurs outside of Storm's control, a > DisconnectionError will still be raised next time the connection is > used through Storm. This is useful if the connection is being > shared with another framework like Django (bug #374909). > * The PostgreSQL backend now requires psycopg2 >= 2.0.7. The work > around for broken quoting behaviour in older psycopg2 versions has > been removed. (bug #322206). > * A new Neg expression is available. It provides unary minus by > prepending a minus sign to whatever expression is passed to it > (bug #397654 by Michael Hudson). > * A new Coalese expressions is available. > * ResultSets now have a find(). It acts similar to Store.find(), but > without the first argument (it uses the same classes as the original > result), and only returns results found in the original result set. > (bug #338255). > * Result.rowcount exposes the number of rows affected by the > query, when known. > * ResultSet.remove returns the number of rows deleted from the database. > (bug #180122). > > Bug fixes: > > * The fix for ResultSet.count() on distinct results from last release > has been improved, and the fix has been extended to the other > aggregates. This may change the result of some count(), min(), > max(), sum() and avg() calls for results using distinct, limit or > offset. > * The test suite now passes when run with Python 2.6. > * ListVariable now converts its elements to database representation > correctly (bug #136806 reported by Marc Tardif). > * compile_python now works for values that don't produce valid Python > expressions with repr(). > * The C extension should now build under Windows. > -- storm mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/storm
