What's new in Django 1.5

Slides from talk at DJUGL in March 2013

Transcript

1. What’s New in Django 1.5 Marc Tamlyn Wednesday, 13 March 13
2. Major Changes • Pluggable User models • Python 3 • Security Improvements • StreamingHTTPResponse • {% url %} tag • ... and much more Wednesday, 13 March 13
3. Pluggable User Model • Does what it says on the tin! • Solution to schema changes on the default user model • AUTH_PROFILE_MODEL becomes AUTH_USER_MODEL Wednesday, 13 March 13
4. Pluggable User Model • auth.models.AbstractUser • auth.models.PermissionsMixin and auth.models.AbstractBaseUser • USERNAME_FIELD • contrib.admin integration • External apps Wednesday, 13 March 13
5. Python 3 • Python 3.2 and 3.3 supported • Not yet “production ready” • Upgrade your third party apps! • Caveats: MySQL, PIL, Selenium (etc.) • (Python 2.5 gone) Wednesday, 13 March 13
6. Security • ALLOWED_HOSTS • Backported to 1.3.X and 1.4.X, but required in 1.5 • Yes it’s boring Wednesday, 13 March 13
7. StreamingHTTPResponse • Fixes the handling of streaming responses • streaming_content instead of content Wednesday, 13 March 13
8. {% url %} • Fixed in 1.3 with load from future • Old style actually gone now • If you’ve not been using it, the first thing you’ll notice breaking! Wednesday, 13 March 13
9. More New Things • Caching of related model instances • update_fields • PostGIS 2.0 • {% verbatim %} Wednesday, 13 March 13
10. Backwards Incompatibilities • Context in various class based views • simplejson • Session not saved on 500 • Testing: - OPTIONS, PUT and DELETE - DB flushing - No sequence reset - Ordering of test execution changed Wednesday, 13 March 13
11. Deprecations • contrib.localflavor • contrib.markup • manage.py cleanup • depth argument to select_related Wednesday, 13 March 13
12. Nice things you may have missed • LOGIN_URL can be a url name • True, False and None in templates • OPTIONS requests to CBVs • user_login_failed signal • assertXMLEqual() • index_together Wednesday, 13 March 13
13. Nice things you may have missed • Admin list filters customisable by request • cleaned_data on invalid forms • django.utils.text.slugify Wednesday, 13 March 13
14. Want to know best practice? Wednesday, 13 March 13
15. Questions? Wednesday, 13 March 13