Django 1.4 alpha 1 released
The developers of the magnificent framework decided to please us before the New Year - and released the 1.4 alpha version!
Sample release schedule:
- Week of January 30, 2012: first beta release.
- Week of February 27, 2012: first release candidate.
- Week of March 5, 2012: final release.
Immediately, Python 2.4 is no longer supported . Minimum - version 2.5.
A complete list of what’s new can be found on the official website , and I’ll write a little of what I liked.
- Support for SELECT FOR UPDATE query .
- Password hashing has been improved: PBKDF2 (or BCrypt ) algorithm is now used instead of the old SHA1.
- HTML5 doctype in admin interface.
- Sorting by several columns at once in the admin panel.
- The old FormWizard from django.contrib.formtools.wizard has been replaced with a completely new one .
- reverse_lazy () - lazy version of django.core.urlresolvers.reverse ()
- Internationalization for urlpatterns through i18n_patterns () will make life easier for multilingual sites. More on this .
- Support for * args and ** kwargs in simple_tag , inclusion_tag and the new assignment_tag .
- Patterned filter truncatechars for trimming lines to a predetermined length.
- CachedStaticFilesStorage backend for caching static files, turning css / style.css into something like this: css / style.314d22ab3153.css
- CSRF improvements, adding a decorator for ajax requests, protection from PUT and DELETE, and other tasty buns .
- Updated manage.py code
- ... and many small changes have been added .
Backward incompatible changes can be viewed here .