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diff --git a/docs/releases/1.1-beta-1.txt b/docs/releases/1.1-beta-1.txt index a433efc33c..83423962b3 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.1-beta-1.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.1-beta-1.txt @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -.. _releases-1.1-beta-1: - =============================== Django 1.1 beta 1 release notes =============================== @@ -22,7 +20,7 @@ What's new in Django 1.1 beta 1 .. seealso:: - The :ref:`1.1 alpha release notes <releases-1.1-alpha-1>`, which has a + The :doc:`1.1 alpha release notes </releases/1.1-alpha-1>`, which has a list of everything new between Django 1.0 and Django 1.1 alpha. Model improvements @@ -71,8 +69,9 @@ 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 ------------------ @@ -90,7 +89,7 @@ up as form widgets on the list pages, and can be edited and saved in bulk. Admin "actions" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -You can now define :ref:`admin actions <ref-contrib-admin-actions>` that can perform +You can now define :doc:`admin actions </ref/contrib/admin/actions>` that can perform some action to a group of models in bulk. Users will be able to select objects on the change list page and then apply these bulk actions to all selected objects. @@ -103,23 +102,23 @@ Testing improvements .. currentmodule:: django.test.client A couple of small but very useful improvements have been made to the -:ref:`testing framework <topics-testing>`: +:doc:`testing framework </topics/testing>`: * 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 --------------------------- -Django now has much better support for :ref:`conditional view processing -<topics-conditional-processing>` using the standard ``ETag`` and +Django now has much better support for :doc:`conditional view processing +</topics/conditional-view-processing>` using the standard ``ETag`` and ``Last-Modified`` HTTP headers. This means you can now easily short-circuit view processing by testing less-expensive conditions. For many views this can lead to a serious improvement in speed and reduction in bandwidth. @@ -133,23 +132,23 @@ 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 + + * :doc:`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 + + * Django now can :doc:`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 +182,7 @@ 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: @@ -195,9 +194,9 @@ 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>` + * :doc:`How to contribute to Django </internals/contributing>` Contributions on any level -- developing code, writing documentation or simply triaging tickets and helping to test proposed bugfixes -- are always welcome and |