have tests
read release notes
incremental upgrades
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have tests
read release notes
incremental upgrades
refactor deprecated code
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what's new in 1.5
Configurable User model
Model.save(update_fields)
StreamingHttpResponse
{% verbatim %}
True, False, None
localtime()
DEBUG logging
index_together
...and much more
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Be the User model you
want to see in the world.
– David Gouldin
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what's new in 1.5
Configurable User model
Model.save(update_fields)
StreamingHttpResponse
{% verbatim %}
True, False, None
localtime()
DEBUG logging
index_together
...and much more
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what's changed in 1.5
Form.cleaned_data
Session not saved on HTTP 500 Server Error
YearArchiveView and {{ year }}
TemplateView and {{ params }}
request.POST and non-form data
PostgreSQL autocommit fixed
Test Client behavior
TransactionTestCase behavior
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what's gone in 1.5
{% load url from future %}
{% admin_media_prefix %}
Procedural generic views
URLField.verify_exists
CACHE_BACKEND
mod_python request handler
Test Client's response.template
AdminMediaHandler replaced by StaticFilesHandler
manage.py reset and manage.py sqlreset
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what's going away in 1.7
django.contrib.localflavor (actually going away in 1.6)
django.contrib.markup
django.utils.simplejson
AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE
Streaming with HttpResponse
manage.py cleanup
select_related(depth)
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what's coming in 1.6
New default project/app template
SQLite by default
Database autocommit on by default
New transaction management
Persistent DB connections
unittest2 test discovery
QuerySet.earliest()
HTML5 text input widgets
...and much more
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what's changing in 1.6
Database autocommit and transaction management
Test discovery
QuerySet date handling
BooleanField default
reverse and urlquote()
Password reset
EmptyQuerySet()
Cache timeout
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what's gone in 1.6
django.contrib.databrowse
django.contrib.localflavor
django.contrib.markup
django.conf.urls.defaults
Pre-1.4 form wizard semantics
Some cache_page() semantics
truncate_words() / truncate_html_words()
Old manage.py will no longer work
HttpRequest.raw_post_data
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what's going away in 1.8
django.contrib.comments
django.db.transaction decorators / context managers
PostgreSQL before 8.4
{% load cycle from future %}
CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY
Model._meta.module_name
Implicit ModelForm fields