On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Michael Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com>wrote:
> 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 > > Thanks for the new release Mike. Just in time for the holidays! :-) I was using 0.8.0b1 in 3 recent projects, but none of them were pushing it very hard and everything just worked, so I didn't think I had anything to say. In retrospect, though, I guess "It works for me" is feedback on a beta just as much as bug reports? Anyway, 2 of those projects have gone into limbo due to corporate psychopathy, but the other one is still going strong and I'll start using 0.8.0b2 in it ASAP. -- 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.
