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Django 1.1 RC 1 release notes
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July 21, 2009
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Welcome to the first Django 1.1 release candidate!
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This is the third -- and likely last -- in a series of
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preview/development releases leading up to the eventual release of
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Django 1.1, currently scheduled to take place approximately one week
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after this release candidate. This release is targeted primarily at
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developers who are interested in trying out new features and testing
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the Django codebase to help identify and resolve any critical bugs
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prior to the final 1.1 release.
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As such, this release is not yet intended for production use, and any
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such use is discouraged.
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What's new in Django 1.1 RC 1
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The Django codebase has -- with one exception -- been in feature
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freeze since the first 1.1 beta release, and so this release candidate
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contains only one new feature (see below); work leading up to this
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release candidate has instead been focused on bugfixing, particularly
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on the new features introduced prior to the 1.1 beta.
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For an overview of those features, consult :doc:`the Django 1.1 beta
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release notes </releases/1.1-beta-1>`.
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URL namespaces
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The 1.1 beta release introduced the ability to use reverse URL
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resolution with Django's admin application, which exposed a set of
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:ref:`named URLs <naming-url-patterns>`. Unfortunately, achieving
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consistent and correct reverse resolution for admin URLs proved
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extremely difficult, and so one additional feature was added to Django
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to resolve this issue: URL namespaces.
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In short, this feature allows the same group of URLs, from the same
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application, to be included in a Django URLConf multiple times, with
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varying (and potentially nested) named prefixes which will be used
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when performing reverse resolution. For full details, see :ref:`the
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documentation on defining URL namespaces
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<topics-http-defining-url-namespaces>`.
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Due to the changes needed to support this feature, the URL pattern
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names used when reversing admin URLs have changed since the 1.1 beta
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release; if you were developing applications which took advantage of
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this new feature, you will need to update your code to reflect the new
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names (for most purposes, changing ``admin_`` to ``admin:`` in names
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to be reversed will suffice). For a full list of URL pattern names
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used by the admin and information on how namespaces are applied to
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them, consult the documentation on :ref:`reversing admin URLs
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<admin-reverse-urls>`.
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The Django 1.1 roadmap
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As of this release candidate, Django 1.1 is in both feature freeze and
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"string freeze" -- all strings marked for translation in the Django
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codebase will retain their current form in the final Django 1.1
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release. Only critical release-blocking bugs will receive attention
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between now and the final 1.1 release.
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If no such bugs are discovered, Django 1.1 will be released
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approximately one week after this release candidate, on or about July
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28, 2009.
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What you can do to help
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=======================
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In order to provide a high-quality 1.1 release, we need your
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help. Although this release candidate is, again, *not* intended for
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production use, you can help the Django team by trying out this
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release candidate in a safe testing environment and reporting any bugs
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or issues you encounter. The Django ticket tracker is the central
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place to search for open issues:
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* https://code.djangoproject.com/timeline
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Please open a new ticket only if no existing ticket corresponds to a
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problem you're running into.
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Additionally, discussion of Django development, including progress
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toward the 1.1 release, takes place daily on the django-developers
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mailing list:
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* http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers
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... and in the ``#django-dev`` IRC channel on ``irc.freenode.net``. If you're
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interested in helping out with Django's development, feel free to join the
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discussions there.
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Django's online documentation also includes pointers on how to contribute to
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Django:
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* :doc:`How to contribute to Django </internals/contributing/index>`
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Contributions on any level -- developing code, writing documentation or simply
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triaging tickets and helping to test proposed bugfixes -- are always welcome and
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appreciated.
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