Author: lukeplant Date: 2010-10-11 18:50:59 -0500 (Mon, 11 Oct 2010) New Revision: 14161
Modified: django/trunk/docs/releases/1.3.txt Log: Moved the good stuff to the top in releases/1.3.txt Modified: django/trunk/docs/releases/1.3.txt =================================================================== --- django/trunk/docs/releases/1.3.txt 2010-10-11 23:35:23 UTC (rev 14160) +++ django/trunk/docs/releases/1.3.txt 2010-10-11 23:50:59 UTC (rev 14161) @@ -7,10 +7,55 @@ up-to-date information for those who are following trunk. Django 1.3 includes a number of nifty `new features`_, lots of bug -fixes and an easy upgrade path from Django 1.2. +fixes, some minor `backwards incompatible changes`_ and an easy +upgrade path from Django 1.2. .. _new features: `What's new in Django 1.3`_ +.. _backwards incompatible changes: backwards-incompatible-changes-1.3_ + +What's new in Django 1.3 +======================== + +Logging +~~~~~~~ + +Django 1.3 adds framework-level support for Python's logging module. +This means you can now easily configure and control logging as part of +your Django project. A number of logging handlers and logging calls +have been added to Django's own code as well -- most notably, the +error emails sent on a HTTP 500 server error are now handled as a +logging activity. See :doc:`the documentation on Django's logging +interface </topics/logging>` for more details. + +``unittest2`` support +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Python 2.7 introduced some major changes to the unittest library, +adding some extremely useful features. To ensure that every Django +project can benefit from these new features, Django ships with a +copy of unittest2_, a copy of the Python 2.7 unittest library, +backported for Python 2.4 compatibility. + +To access this library, Django provides the +``django.utils.unittest`` module alias. If you are using Python +2.7, or you have installed unittest2 locally, Django will map the +alias to the installed version of the unittest library. Otherwise, +Django will use it's own bundled version of unittest2. + +To use this alias, simply use:: + + from django.utils import unittest + +wherever you would have historically used:: + + import unittest + +If you want to continue to use the base unittest libary, you can -- +you just won't get any of the nice new unittest2 features. + +.. _unittest2: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2 + .. _backwards-incompatible-changes-1.3: Backwards-incompatible changes in 1.3 @@ -122,45 +167,3 @@ deprecated in favor of a new :attr:`~django.test.client.Response.templates` attribute, which is always a list, even if it has only a single element or no elements. - -What's new in Django 1.3 -======================== - -Logging -~~~~~~~ - -Django 1.3 adds framework-level support for Python's logging module. -This means you can now easily configure and control logging as part of -your Django project. A number of logging handlers and logging calls -have been added to Django's own code as well -- most notably, the -error emails sent on a HTTP 500 server error are now handled as a -logging activity. See :doc:`the documentation on Django's logging -interface </topics/logging>` for more details. - -``unittest2`` support -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -Python 2.7 introduced some major changes to the unittest library, -adding some extremely useful features. To ensure that every Django -project can benefit from these new features, Django ships with a -copy of unittest2_, a copy of the Python 2.7 unittest library, -backported for Python 2.4 compatibility. - -To access this library, Django provides the -``django.utils.unittest`` module alias. If you are using Python -2.7, or you have installed unittest2 locally, Django will map the -alias to the installed version of the unittest library. Otherwise, -Django will use it's own bundled version of unittest2. - -To use this alias, simply use:: - - from django.utils import unittest - -wherever you would have historically used:: - - import unittest - -If you want to continue to use the base unittest libary, you can -- -you just won't get any of the nice new unittest2 features. - -.. _unittest2: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django updates" group. To post to this group, send email to django-upda...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-updates+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-updates?hl=en.
