| author | Nishanth Amuluru <nishanth@fossee.in> |
| Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:51:07 +0530 | |
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Django 1.2.2 release notes |
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Welcome to Django 1.2.2! |
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This is the second "bugfix" release in the Django 1.2 series, |
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improving the stability and performance of the Django 1.2 codebase. |
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Django 1.2.2 maintains backwards compatibility with Django |
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1.2.1, but contain a number of fixes and other |
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improvements. Django 1.2.2 is a recommended upgrade for any |
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development or deployment currently using or targeting Django 1.2. |
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For full details on the new features, backwards incompatibilities, and |
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deprecated features in the 1.2 branch, see the :doc:`/releases/1.2`. |
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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 1.2.2, we have made an exception to this rule. |
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In order to test a bug fix that forms part of the 1.2.2 release, it |
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was necessary to add a feature -- the ``enforce_csrf_checks`` flag -- |
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to the :mod:`test client <django.test.client>`. This flag forces |
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the test client to perform full CSRF checks on forms. The default |
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behavior of the test client hasn't changed, but if you want to do |
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CSRF checks with the test client, it is now possible to do so. |