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Django 1.8 release notes - UNDER DEVELOPMENT
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Welcome to Django 1.8!
These release notes cover the `new features`_, as well as some `backwards
incompatible changes`_ you'll want to be aware of when upgrading from Django
1.6 or older versions. We've also dropped some features, which are detailed in
:ref:`our deprecation plan <deprecation-removed-in-1.8>`, and we've `begun the
deprecation process for some features`_.
.. _`new features`: `What's new in Django 1.8`_
.. _`backwards incompatible changes`: `Backwards incompatible changes in 1.8`_
.. _`begun the deprecation process for some features`: `Features deprecated in 1.8`_
Python compatibility
====================
Like Django 1.7, Django 1.8 requires Python 2.7 or above, though we
**highly recommend** the latest minor release.
What's new in Django 1.8
========================
...
Minor features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
:mod:`django.contrib.admin`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.auth`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.formtools`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.gis`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.messages`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.redirects`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.sessions`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.sitemaps`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.sites`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.staticfiles`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.syndication`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
Cache
^^^^^
* ...
Email
^^^^^
* :ref:`Email backends <topic-email-backends>` now support the context manager
protocol for opening and closing connections.
File Storage
^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
File Uploads
^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
Forms
^^^^^
* Form widgets now render attributes with a value of ``True`` or ``False``
as HTML5 boolean attributes.
* The new :meth:`~django.forms.Form.has_error()` method allows checking
if a specific error has happened.
* If :attr:`~django.forms.Form.required_css_class` is defined on a form, then
the ``<label>`` tags for required fields will have this class present in its
attributes.
Internationalization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
Management Commands
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* :djadmin:`dumpdata` now has the option :djadminopt:`--output` which allows
specifying the file to which the serialized data is written.
Models
^^^^^^
* ...
Signals
^^^^^^^
* ...
Templates
^^^^^^^^^
* ...
Requests and Responses
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
Tests
^^^^^
* ...
Validators
^^^^^^^^^^
* ...
Backwards incompatible changes in 1.8
=====================================
.. warning::
In addition to the changes outlined in this section, be sure to review the
:doc:`deprecation plan </internals/deprecation>` for any features that
have been removed. If you haven't updated your code within the
deprecation timeline for a given feature, its removal may appear as a
backwards incompatible change.
* Some operations on related objects such as
:meth:`~django.db.models.fields.related.RelatedManager.add()` or
:ref:`direct assignment<direct-assignment>` ran multiple data modifying
queries without wrapping them in transactions. To reduce the risk of data
corruption, all data modifying methods that affect multiple related objects
(i.e. ``add()``, ``remove()``, ``clear()``, and
:ref:`direct assignment<direct-assignment>`) now perform their data modifying
queries from within a transaction, provided your database supports
transactions.
This has one backwards incompatible side effect, signal handlers triggered
from these methods are now executed within the method's transaction and
any exception in a signal handler will prevent the whole operation.
Miscellaneous
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ``URLField.to_python`` no longer adds a trailing slash to pathless URLs.
* ``django.contrib.gis`` dropped support for GEOS 3.1 and GDAL 1.6.
.. _deprecated-features-1.8:
Features deprecated in 1.8
==========================
Loading ``cycle`` and ``firstof`` template tags from ``future`` library
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Django 1.6 introduced ``{% load cycle from future %}`` and
``{% load firstof from future %}`` syntax for forward compatibility of the
:ttag:`cycle` and :ttag:`firstof` template tags. This syntax is now deprecated
and will be removed in Django 2.0. You can simply remove the
``{% load ... from future %}`` tags.