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Django 1.1.2 release notes
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Welcome to Django 1.1.2!
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This is the second "bugfix" release in the Django 1.1 series,
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improving the stability and performance of the Django 1.1 codebase.
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Django 1.1.2 maintains backwards compatibility with Django
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1.1.0, but contain a number of fixes and other
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improvements. Django 1.1.2 is a recommended upgrade for any
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development or deployment currently using or targeting Django 1.1.
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For full details on the new features, backwards incompatibilities, and
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deprecated features in the 1.1 branch, see the :doc:`/releases/1.1`.
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Backwards-incompatible changes in 1.1.2
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Test runner exit status code
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The exit status code of the test runners (``tests/runtests.py`` and ``python
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manage.py test``) no longer represents the number of failed tests, since a
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failure of 256 or more tests resulted in a wrong exit status code.  The exit
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status code for the test runner is now 0 for success (no failing tests) and 1
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for any number of test failures.  If needed, the number of test failures can be
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found at the end of the test runner's output.
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Cookie encoding
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To fix bugs with cookies in Internet Explorer, Safari, and possibly other
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browsers, our encoding of cookie values was changed so that the characters
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comma and semi-colon are treated as non-safe characters, and are therefore
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encoded as ``\054`` and ``\073`` respectively.  This could produce backwards
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incompatibilities, especially if you are storing comma or semi-colon in
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cookies and have javascript code that parses and manipulates cookie values
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client-side.
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One new feature
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Ordinarily, a point release would not include new features, but in the
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case of Django 1.1.2, we have made an exception to this rule. Django
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1.2 (the next major release of Django) will contain a feature that
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will improve protection against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
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attacks. This feature requires the use of a new :ttag:`csrf_token`
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template tag in all forms that Django renders.
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To make it easier to support both 1.1.X and 1.2.X versions of Django with
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the same templates, we have decided to introduce the :ttag:`csrf_token` template
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tag to the 1.1.X branch. In the 1.1.X branch, :ttag:`csrf_token` does nothing -
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it has no effect on templates or form processing. However, it means that the
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same template will work with Django 1.2.