Hi list - SQLAlchemy 0.8.0b2 is released. This is hopefully the last beta for 0.8, as things have been mostly quiet surrounding 0.8.0b1, we had a few regressions fixed, and a bunch of other new bugs whose fixes are only in 0.8.
There was a little bit of an additional refactor in this beta regarding the mechanics of loader strategies and aliased() constructs, which is to allow ever-more combinations of custom loader strategies in conjunction with "polymorphic" loading, and hopefully the latest architecture in this area will prove to be the most consistent yet. Other changes include that the Postgresql HSTORE type has been merged into the library, and there's also a handful of dialect fixes, notably several for Oracle. The Sybase dialect now supports schema reflection, and the new "fdb" dialect for Firebird should be working now. One thing to note here, is that I've put this release on Pypi. I had done this with 0.8.0b1, but then quickly pulled it off, as I had forgotten that tools like pip and easy_install don't honor the "hidden" flag on pypi, so even though I've kept 0.7.9 as the "visible" version, these tools still go out and grab the "hidden" beta - some prominent projects immediately reported that they got bumped up to 0.8 prematurely. But the effect of only publishing 0.8.0b1 on Sourceforge was that I didn't get the impression that we had so many people going out and testing the beta as we normally do. I was reminded by Chris McDonough that a project which really can't afford to jump to 0.8 on an automatic basis should have a requirement set up to keep them on 0.7. So we'll see how it goes -if your project needs to stay on 0.7, *please* set up a requirement for "SQLAlchemy < 0.8" in your requirements.txt and/or install_requires. Otherwise, you'll be a beta tester for 0.8.0b2. CHANGES for 0.8.0b2 are available in the documentation at: http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_8/changelog/changelog_08.html#change-0.8.0b2 Download 0.8.0b2 at: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/download.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.
