[TurboGears] Re: TurboGears 0.9a5 released!

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:05:43 -0700

doc sprint channel is now #tg-sprint

On 4/29/06, Kevin Dangoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Just in time for today's documentation sprint, and packed with more
goodies than originally planned, TurboGears 0.9a5 ("incredible") is
out!

As of now, there are no docs for the new features, but we'll start
correcting that at 10AM Eastern today (join us at #turbogears on
freenode if you dare!).

Several people put in quite a bit of effort this week to make this
release possible (many of the folks in the Contributors section below
were quite active on the trunk list this week). The plan is for this
to be the last 0.9 alpha release, so we pulled out the stops to get
the last upheavals done.


0.9a5 (April 26, 2006)
----------------------

*Backwards Incompatibilties*

* An identity login form must have a submit button having the name
  specified in the config file (identity.form.submit).  If you have a
  commented identity.form.submit value and used the default login.kid
  file, you will need to add 'name="login"' to the login.kid submit
  button.
* In widgets, the base Widget class no longer supports a validator.
  If you need a validator you should use the InputWidget class
* In widgets, the display and the adjust_value methods have a slightly
  different signature (if you happen to use the "convert" parameter,
  you just need to use it as a keyword parameter and not a
  positional one.)
* decorator() should be applied to the function accepting the function
  being decorated ("entangle" by convention), not the caller.
* Removed keyword argument "argsink" from decorator(),
  weak_signature_decorator() should be used instead.

*Deprecations*

* In widgets, template_vars in widgets are now called "params" and
  options_for has been renamed params_for
* In widgets, the update_data method has been renamed update_params
* Identity has moved to PEP8 style naming. Changed userId, groupId, and
  permissionId to be user_name, group_name, and permission_name.
* visit_id has been deprecated in favor of visit_key
* SQL scripts to migrate PostgreSQL and MySQL identity databases are
  available (http://trac.turbogears.org/turbogears/ticket/737)


*Features*

* Dramatically improved and unified logging configuration. Config files
  can now use the options in Python's logging module for log formats
  and output.
* TurboGears now includes an enhanced version of Irmen de Jong's
  Kronos scheduler, allowing you to schedule tasks that run in
  separate threads or processes periodically.
* For Python 2.3 users, there is a convenient new decorator syntax
  that comes from Phillip Eby's PEAK.

Here's is the equivalent of @expose():

    [expose()]
    def index(self):
        pass

* Added a new turbogears.start_server function which will help ease
  the transition to 1.1 *and* adds the ability to use Ian Bicking's
  EvalException. You must turn on tg.fancy_exception to use it
  at this point.
* In widgets, if the widget you are using provides a default validator,
  for example a SelectionWidget, you can tweak its parameters
  by just passing a dictionary of those parameters as validator
  (for example, validator=dict(not_empty=True))
* In widgets, every attribute listed inside params now supports callables
  automatically (the attribute will be called for computation at request
  time)
* Some improvements to the ImageButton widget
* More customization hooks for CheckBoxList, RadioButtonList, TableForm
  and ListForm
* Decimals are properly jsonified (#472)
* datetime.date instances are properly jsonified (#759)
* Commas are supported in number validation (#720)
* It's now possible to determine what permissions are required for
  a given controller method (#603)

*Changes*

* Identity model classes are now placed directly into the model.py of
  a quickstarted project. This new setup is much easier to change,
  since requirements for the identity model vary dramatically. Another
  advantage is that quickstart projects that don't need identity
  start off with cleaner code, and projects that do need identity
  need almost no additional configuration or setup.
* quickstart projects include a "json.py" file as a home for JSON
  view code.
* i18n "scan" command has been changed to "collect" to match the
  admi18n Toolbox tool
* If you quickstart a project while in an svn checkout, files are no
  longer automatically "svn add"ed. This corrects some problems that
  people ran into with that behavior.
* The "prod.cfg" file in quickstart projects is now called
  "sample-prod.cfg " to reflect that it is just used as a sample that
  you copy to your real production servers (#762).
* The various classes used to make dictionaries look like normal
  objects have been replaced by turbogears.util.Bunch (#779)

*Fixes*

* Model Designer can now handle joins to the same table (#769)
* Unicode values sent to the turbogears.url function are utf8 encoded.
* NotEmpty validator works with CheckBoxList now. (#696)
* Grid widget's css has been improved to not interact with other
  widgets (#729, thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
* the "self" parameter is no longer accidentally removed by validation
* tg_format is properly stripped out for JSON requests (#740)
* calendar widget language fixes (many language files needed patching)
* DataController's float columns are properly converted (#707)
* str values in Kid templates are now assumed to be utf8 rather than
  ASCII (changeable via kid.encoding) (#743)
* The flash message set on the current request takes precedence over the
  one in the cookie (#747)
* py:match was being used in the default templates in a way that would
  drop the text from the first node. (#785)
* AutoCompleteField widget's only_suggest now works correctly when
  there is only one item listed (#750)
* Lots of HTML cleanup

*Project Updates*

* TurboGears now uses ConfigObj 4.3.0 for configuration
* MochiKit upgraded to 1.3
* simplejson upgraded to 1.3
* CherryPy upgraded to 2.2.1
* Kid upgraded to 0.9.1
* FormEncode upgraded to 0.5.1
* PasteScript upgraded to 0.5.1

*Contributors*

Alberto Valverde González, Jeff Watkins, Max Ischenko, Michele Cella,
Simon Belak, Jorge Godoy, Patrick Lewis, Jorge Vargas, Joost Moesker,
Joseph Tate, Philip Walls, Bob Ippolito, Steve Bergman, Andrey Lebedev,
Brian Beck, Roger Demetrescu.


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