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authorAlex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>2010-08-09 21:22:37 +0000
committerAlex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>2010-08-09 21:22:37 +0000
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[soc2010/query-refactor] Merged up to trunk r13556, resolved merge conflictsarchive/soc2010/query-refactor
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/soc2010/query-refactor@13565 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -71,8 +71,9 @@ processing to convert them to Python objects. If you know you don't need those
particular fields, you can now tell Django not to retrieve them from the
database.
-You'll do this with the :ref:`new queryset methods <queryset-defer>`
-``defer()`` and ``only()``.
+You'll do this with the new queryset methods
+:meth:`~django.db.models.QuerySet.defer` and
+:meth:`~django.db.models.QuerySet.only`.
New admin features
------------------
@@ -108,13 +109,13 @@ A couple of small but very useful improvements have been made to the
* The test :class:`Client` now can automatically follow redirects with the
``follow`` argument to :meth:`Client.get` and :meth:`Client.post`. This
makes testing views that issue redirects simpler.
-
+
* It's now easier to get at the template context in the response returned
the test client: you'll simply access the context as
``request.context[key]``. The old way, which treats ``request.context``
as a list of contexts, one for each rendered template, is still
available if you need it.
-
+
Conditional view processing
---------------------------
@@ -133,23 +134,23 @@ release, including:
* The :djadmin:`dumpdata` management command now accepts individual
model names as arguments, allowing you to export the data just from
particular models.
-
+
* There's a new :tfilter:`safeseq` template filter which works just like
:tfilter:`safe` for lists, marking each item in the list as safe.
-
+
* :ref:`Cache backends <topics-cache>` now support ``incr()`` and
``decr()`` commands to increment and decrement the value of a cache key.
On cache backends that support atomic increment/decrement -- most
notably, the memcached backend -- these operations will be atomic, and
quite fast.
-
+
* Django now can :ref:`easily delegate authentication to the web server
<howto-auth-remote-user>` via a new authentication backend that supports
the standard ``REMOTE_USER`` environment variable used for this purpose.
-
+
* There's a new :func:`django.shortcuts.redirect` function that makes it
easier to issue redirects given an object, a view name, or a URL.
-
+
* The ``postgresql_psycopg2`` backend now supports :ref:`native PostgreSQL
autocommit <postgresql-notes>`. This is an advanced, PostgreSQL-specific
feature, that can make certain read-heavy applications a good deal
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@ central place to search for open issues:
* http://code.djangoproject.com/timeline
Please open new tickets if no existing ticket corresponds to a problem you're
-running into.
+running into.
Additionally, discussion of Django development, including progress toward the
1.1 release, takes place daily on the django-developers mailing list:
@@ -195,7 +196,7 @@ interested in helping out with Django's development, feel free to join the
discussions there.
Django's online documentation also includes pointers on how to contribute to
-Django:
+Django:
* :ref:`How to contribute to Django <internals-contributing>`