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Django Week in Review, Dec 3 - Dec 9, 2007

This post is a test of a new Django Week in Review format. I'm testing an automated script to parse the Django timeline with some minor edits and additions.

Over the following week I'll monitor a few Django resources and include links to more relevant items. If you have something you'd like included for next week I'm monitoring the Django tag on delicious and Django group on Magnolia, or email me directly.

django-developers list hightlights

• Django 1.0 features -- the definitive list
• DB API - the limiting syntax, is it magic?
• Fixing app_label
• Changes to request_response have broken django-rest-interface

django code highlights

• r6900: Fixed #3906 -- Fixed the reverse_m2m_name for a generic relation.
• r6895: Fixed #6063 -- Caught one place in HttpResponse that was not returning a string type.
• r6892: Fixed #4131: added an "escapejs" filter for use in JavaScript strings and updated documentation.
• r6889: Fixed #6082: file-based sessions now verify that SESSION_FILE_PATH is a valid storage location.
• r6887: Fixed #6099: the filebased cache backend now uses md5 hashes of keys instead of sanitized filenames.
• View full list

Trac digest

65 new tickets. 51 closed tickets. 329 ticket updates. 49 changesets. 84 patches submitted. 24 wiki updates.

3rd party software

• Blogmaker was released this week. Blogmaker is a full-featured, production-quality blogging application for Django. It supports trackbacks, ping and comments with moderation and honeypot spam prevention.

• Django Basic Apps are Django apps one can build into their project, and include Basic Blog, Basic Places, Basic People, Basic Library, and Basic Profiles.