Updated Aug 02, 2009 by wkornewald
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ReleaseNotes

Release 1.1RC (2009-08-02)

What's new:

Django 1.1 support

Also read the release notes of the previous versions to ensure a flawless upgrade.

Release 1.0.2.3 and 1.1beta1.1 (2009-07-09)

Upgrade notes: Since the media generator now rewrites url() paths you have to change your CSS files: url(<app>/image.png) now becomes simply url(image.png) if that code is in a CSS file in the same folder or url(../<app>/image.png) if it's in a CSS file in some other app (i.e., you can use '../' to get the parent folder).

Upgrade note 2: Please make sure you also follow the upgrade notes for 1.0.2 if you currently use an older release.

What's new:

Media generator rewrites url() paths in CSS files such that they're relative to the CSS source file instead of the destination file (this simplifies integrating 3rd-party modules) - thanks mback2k!
Signals also work with batch-puts/deletes (db.put/delete)
A 500 error page can be enforced to show a traceback by setting DEBUGKEY in settings.py and adding "?debugkey=<DEBUGKEY>" to your URL
Admin interface can utilize SearchIndexProperty from gae-search
Fixed User.get_profile()
Fixed bugs in FormSetField
Work around PYTHONPATH conflicts when you have other "google" packages installed
Other minor bugfixes

Note: 1.0.2.2 missed a change regarding the url() rewrite behavior, so we had to make a quick update.

Release 1.0.2.1 (2009-06-18)

This release contains a bugfix for FakeModelProperty which prevented you from assigning groups/permissions to users. If you upgrade from release 1.0 please make sure you've read the 1.0.2 upgrade notes below:

Release 1.0.2 (2009-06-16)

Upgrade notes: We've added a remoteapi handler to app.yaml (for remote access to the production server). Please integrate that, so features like update, syncdb, and remote shell work correctly.

The app settings feature has changed. Form now on, you manipulate the settings module directly. Change your import to: "from ragendja.settings_post import settings" and work with the settings module. Also, add_app_media() now doesn't need the ugly globals() parameter.

Also, if you use the urlsauto feature feature you have to rename the urlpatterns variable to rootpatterns. In simple cases where you map directly to "/<appname>/" you can just remove the existing urlsauto.py and rename your urls.py to urlsauto.py.

Finally, don't forget to update the "registration" app if you use that in your project.

What's new:

included jQuery and Blueprint CSS in the sample project to demonstrate our media generator - thanks to Tom Brander (dartdog) for providing a base package
remote access via remoteapi - thanks a lot Thomas Bohmbach (from Best Buy/Giftag) for your help
manage.py syncdb support (also for production server via remote access; syncdb is automatically executed after manage.py update)
fixed a bug that could cause strange behavior (e.g., DuplicatePropertyError) if you got an exception on the first request of a new instance
fixed a bug that caused sys.path to be reset to its initial state (could appear when an exception is raised on an instance's first request)
improved urlsauto feature
removed GLOBALTAGS feature in order to reduce the number of pre-loaded modules (lazy loading is better to prevent DeadlineExceededError)
added a few minor optimizations in order to slightly reduce instance load times
fixed a security issue in encodejs (data wasn't escaped)
minor changes

Release 1.0 (2009-02-24)

Very important: If you upgrade an existing project please set DJANGO_STYLE_MODEL_KIND = False in your settings.py. From now on, the model kind() gets prefixed with the app label, by default, which prevents naming conflicts when multiple apps define models with the same name. Note that Django uses this naming scheme, too, when creating SQL tables. This feature breaks existing models which are stored without the app label, so you need to disable it when upgrading your project (or you can override the kind() method for existing models).

Important: In beta3 we introduced a Django compatibility fix which makes your existing data inaccessible if you use DJANGO_STYLE_MODEL_KIND (introduced with 1.0beta and enabled by default). You can manually override your models' db_table in class Meta (or the models' kind()) to stay backwards-compatible with 1.0beta1/beta2.

Important: Please upgrade these files according to the versions in the sample project, so they contain the features required for self-contained apps:

app.yaml (default expiration and static file handler)
settings.py (import ragendja.settings_pre, ragendja.settings_post)
urls.py (urlsauto and auth_patterns)
manage.py (media generator and i18n compiler helper)

What's new:

ported Django's admin interface
media generator
self-contained apps
ported django.contrib.sites and django.contrib.flatpages (thank you, Rafał Jońca!)
ported and integrated django-registration into sample app (thank you, Jesaja Everling!)
support for groups and permissions
ported FormSet and Django's native ModelForm (thank you, Norman Rasmussen!)
ported django.contrib.redirects
added dynamic SITE_ID middleware for hosting multiple sites on a single Django instance
added KeyListProperty for simulating simple many-to-many relations
removed our custom httplib and urllib2 emulations (App Engine has its own, now)
partially ported django.contrib.contenttypes (generic relations don't work)
memcache-optimized sessions backend
added profiler features: analyze only specific requests or a certain percentage of all requests
added support for Django's Model signals
fixed support for most recent boto release (httplib extensions)
fixed get_list_or_404 to be consistent with get_object_or_404
fixed support for file uploads
fixed slug support and added support for key_name and other redirect keywords in generic views
added support for model Meta verbose_name and verbose_name_plural
print app-engine-patch version number when running manage.py
refactored and cleaned up code (no more monkey patching for Django)

Thanks to everyone who took the time to report bugs!

Release 0.9.4 (2009-02-21)

updated to be compatible with SDK 1.1.9

Release 0.9.3 (2009-01-18)

updated to be compatible with SDK 1.1.8

Release 0.9.2 (2008-11-19)

updated to Django 1.0.2 (release notes)

Release 0.9.1 (2008-11-18)

fixed translation support when using a zipped Django package
fixed SDK detection via PATH for Linux/OSX

Important: Please move "common/django-locale/*" to "common/django-locale/locale/" and remove the LOCALE_PATHS setting for that folder.

Release 0.9 (2008-11-16)

updated Django to version 1.0.1
support for all django.contrib.auth forms and views
support for Google Accounts
serialization support
ragendja.dbutils.prefetch_references() function for optimizing datastore access
fixed exception logging
fixed a few minor issues

Note: Starting with this release we'll only provide a sample project. If you're updating an existing project please also update your Django version to the one shipped with the sample project.

Release 0.8 (2008-10-12)

automatic integration of zip packages
support for boto's SQS implementation
djangoforms patch, so you can use lazy translations for verbose_name in model fields
httplib workaround for headers that aren't strings (e.g., boto sets them)
fixed encodejs escaping in templates
you can directly set the value of a KeyReferenceProperty
added support for User instances with legacy MD5 hashes that don't have a salt (thank you, Curtis Thompson!)
fixed a bug that could rarely cause import errors

IMPORTANT: We've renamed ragendja.templatutils to ragendja.templatetags.ragendjatags, so it can be used like any other templatetags library. Please change your imports.

NOTE: The sample project now comes with a zipped Django package!