I could not wait any longer. We had so many changes that we need to move on. I do not recall any other release with so many new features. Thanks to all those who have contributed with patches and testing.
Changelog: - "from gluon import *" imports in every python module a web2py environment (A, DIV,..SQLFORM, DAL, Field,...) including current.request, current.response, current.session, current.T, current.cache, thanks Jonathan. - conditional models in models/<controller>/a.py and models/<controller>/<function>/a.py - from mymodule import *, looks for mymodule in applications/thisapp/ modules first and then in sys.path. No more need for local_import. Thanks Pierre. - usage of generic.* views is - by default - restricted to localhost for security. This can be changed in a granular way with: response.generic_patterns=['*']. This is a slight change of behavior for new app but a major security fix. - all applications have cas 2.0 provider at http://.../user/cas/login - all applications can delegate to login to external provider Auth(...,cas_provider='http://.../other_app/default/user/cas') - A(...,callback=URL(...),larget='id') does Ajax - URL(...,user_signature=True), LOAD(...,user_signature=True) can sign urls and @auth.requires_signature() will check the signature for any decorated action. - DAL(...,migrate_enabled=False) to disable all migrations - DAL(...,fake_migrate_all=True) to rebuild all corrupted metadata - new DAL metadata format (databases/*.table) - DAL(...,adapter_arg={}) allows support for alternate drivers - DAL now allows circular table defintions - DAL(..,auto_import=True) automatically imports tables from metadata without need to db.define_table(...)s. - new alterante syntax for inner joins: db(...).select(join=...) - experimental cubrid database support - DAL 'request_tenant' fields are special, the altomatically filer all records based on their default value. - db._common_fields.append(Field('owner')) allows to add fields to ALL tables - DAL ignores repeated fields with same names - web2py_ajax.html is more modular, thanks Anthony - request.is_local - request.is_http - new sessions2trash.py thanks Jim Karsten - corrupted cache files are automatically deleted - new simpler API gluon.contrib.AuthorizeNet.procss(...) - fixed recaptcha (as they released new API) - messages in validators have default internationalization - No more Auth(globals(),db), just Auth(db). Same for Crud and Service. - scripts/access.wsgi allows apache+mod_wsgi to delegate authentication of any URL to any web2py app - json now supports T(...) - scripts/setup-web2py-nginx-uwsgi-ubuntu.sh - web2py HTTP responses now set: "X-Powered-By: web2py", thanks Bruno - mostly fixed generic.pdf. You can view any page in PDF if you have pdflatex installed or if your html follows the pyfpdf convention. - auth.settings.extra_fields['auth_user'].append(Field('country')) allows to extend auth_* tables without need of definiting a custom auth_* table. Must be placed before auth.define_tables() - {{=response.toolbar()}} to help you debug applications - web based shell now supports object modifications (but no redefinitions of non-serializable types) - jQuery 1.6.1 - Lots of bug fixes
