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  • new: uniq and iterview
  • support for extensions in Jinja2 templates (tx Zhang Huangbin)
  • support web.datestr for datetime.date objects also
  • support for lists in db queries
  • make web.commify work with decimals Bug#317204
  • fix: unicode issues with sqlite database Bug#373219
  • fix: urlquote url when the server is lighttpd Bug#339858
  • fix: issue with using date.format in templates
  • fix: use TOP instead of LIMIT in mssql database Bug#324049
  • fix: make sessions work well with expirations
  • fix: accept both list and tuple as arg values in form.Dropdown Bug#314970
  • fix: match parenthesis when parsing for statement in templates
  • fix: fix python 2.3 compatibility
  • fix: ignore dot folders when compiling templates (tx Stuart Langridge)
  • fix: don't consume KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit errors
  • fix: make application work well with iterators

2008-12-10: 0.31

  • new: browser module
  • new: test utilities
  • new: ShelfStore
  • fix: web.cookies error when default is None
  • fix: paramstyle for OracleDB (tx kromakey)
  • fix: performance issue in SQLQuery.join
  • fix: use wsgi.url_scheme to find ctx.protocol

2008-12-06: 0.3

  • new: replace print with return (backward-incompatible)
  • new: application framework (backward-incompatible)
  • new: modular database system (backward-incompatible)
  • new: templetor reimplementation
  • new: better unicode support
  • new: debug mode (web.config.debug)
  • new: better db pooling
  • new: sessions
  • new: support for GAE
  • new: etag support
  • new: web.openid module
  • new: web.nthstr
  • fix: various form.py fixes
  • fix: python 2.6 compatibility
  • fix: file uploads are not loaded into memory
  • fix: SQLLiteral issue (Bug#180027)
  • change: web.background is moved to experimental (backward-incompatible)
  • improved API doc generation (tx Colin Rothwell)

2008-01-19: 0.23

  • fix: for web.background gotcha (133079)
  • fix: for postgres unicode bug (177265)
  • fix: web.profile behavior in python 2.5 (133080)
  • fix: only uppercase HTTP methods are allowed. (176415)
  • fix: transaction error in with statement (125118)
  • fix: fix in web.reparam (162085)
  • fix: various unicode issues (137042, 180510, 180549, 180653)
  • new: support for https
  • new: support for secure cookies
  • new: sendmail
  • new: htmlunquote

2007-08-23: 0.22

  • compatibility with new DBUtils API (122112)
  • fix reloading (118683)
  • fix compatibility between changequery and redirect (118234)
  • fix relative URI in web.redirect (118236)
  • fix ctx._write support in built-in HTTP server (121908)
  • fix numify strips things after '.'s (118644)
  • fix various unicode isssues (114703, 120644, 124280)

2007-05-28: 0.21

  • security fix: prevent bad characters in headers
  • support for cheetah template reloading
  • support for form validation
  • new form.File
  • new web.url
  • fix rendering issues with hidden and button inputs
  • fix 2.3 incompatability with numify
  • fix multiple headers with same name
  • fix web.redirect issues when homepath is not /
  • new CherryPy wsgi server
  • new nested transactions
  • new sqlliteral

2006-05-09: 0.138

  • New function: intget
  • New function: datestr
  • New function: validaddr
  • New function: sqlwhere
  • New function: background, backgrounder
  • New function: changequery
  • New function: flush
  • New function: load, unload
  • New variable: loadhooks, unloadhooks
  • Better docs; generating docs from web.py now
  • global variable REAL_SCRIPT_NAME can now be used to work around lighttpd madness
  • fastcgi/scgi servers now can listen on sockets
  • output now encodes Unicode
  • input now takes optional _method argument
  • Potentially-incompatible change: input now returns badrequest automatically when requireds aren't found
  • storify now takes lists and dictionaries as requests (see docs)
  • redirect now blanks any existing output
  • Quote SQL better when db_printing is on
  • Fix delay in nomethod
  • Fix urlquote to encode better.
  • Fix 2.3 incompatibility with iters (tx ??)
  • Fix duplicate headers
  • Improve storify docs
  • Fix IterBetter to raise IndexError, not KeyError

2006-03-27: 0.137

  • Add function dictfindall (tx Steve Huffman)
  • Add support to autodelegate for arguments
  • Add functions httpdate and parsehttpdate
  • Add function modified
  • Add support for FastCGI server mode
  • Clarify dictadd documentation (tx Steve Huffman)
  • Changed license to public domain
  • Clean up to use ctx and env instead of context and environ
  • Improved support for PUT, DELETE, etc. (tx list)
  • Fix ctx.fullpath (tx Jesir Vargas)
  • Fix sqlite support (tx Dubhead)
  • Fix documentation bug in lstrips (tx Gregory Petrosyan)
  • Fix support for IPs and ports (1/2 tx Jesir Vargas)
  • Fix ctx.fullpath (tx Jesir Vargas)
  • Fix sqlite support (tx Dubhead)
  • Fix documentation bug in lstrips (tx Gregory Petrosyan)
  • Fix iters bug with sets
  • Fix some breakage introduced by Vargas's patch
  • Fix sqlors bug
  • Fix various small style things (tx Jesir Vargas)
  • Fix bug with input ignoring GET input

2006-02-22: 0.136 (svn)

  • Major code cleanup (tx to Jesir Vargas for the patch).
  • 2006-02-15: 0.135
  • Really fix that mysql regression (tx Sean Leach).
  • 2006-02-15: 0.134
  • The StopIteration exception is now caught. This can be used by functions that do things like check to see if a user is logged in. If the user isn't, they can output a message with a login box and raise StopIteration, preventing the caller from executing.
  • Fix some documentation bugs.
  • Fix mysql regression (tx mrstone).

2006-02-12: 0.133

  • Docstrings! (tx numerous, esp. Jonathan Mark (for the patch) and Guido van Rossum (for the prod))
  • Add set to web.iters.
  • Make the len returned by query an int (tx ??).
  • Backwards-incompatible change: base now called prefixurl.
  • Backwards-incompatible change: autoassign now takes self and locals() as arguments.

2006-02-07: 0.132

  • New variable iters is now a listing of possible list-like types (currently list, tuple, and, if it exists, Set).
  • New function dictreverse turns {1:2} into {2:1}.
  • Storage now a dictionary subclass.
  • tryall now takes an optional prefix of functions to run.
  • sqlors has various improvements.
  • Fix a bunch of DB API bugs.
  • Fix bug with storify when it received multiple inputs (tx Ben Woosley).
  • Fix bug with returning a generator (tx Zbynek Winkler).
  • Fix bug where len returned a long on query results (tx F.S).

2006-01-31: 0.131 (not officially released)

  • New function _interpolate used internally for interpolating strings.
  • Redone database API. select, insert, update, and delete all made consistent. Database queries can now do more complicated expressions like $foo.bar and ${a+b}. You now have to explicitly pass the dictionary to look up variables in. Pass vars=locals() to get the old functionality of looking up variables .
  • New functions sqllist and sqlors generate certain kinds of SQL.

2006-01-30: 0.13

  • New functions found, seeother, and tempredirect now let you do other kinds of redirects. redirect now also takes an optional status parameter. (tx many)
  • New functions expires and lastmodified make it easy to send those headers.
  • New function gone returns a 410 Gone (tx David Terrell).
  • New function urlquote applies url encoding to a string.
  • New function iterbetter wraps an iterator and allows you to do getitems on it.
  • Have query return an iterbetter instead of an iterator.
  • Have debugerror show tracebacks with the innermost frame first.
  • Add __hash__ function to threadeddict (and thus, ctx).
  • Add context.host value for the requested host name.
  • Add option db_printing that prints database queries and the time they take.
  • Add support for database pooling (tx Steve Huffman).
  • Add support for passing values to functions called by handle. If you do ('foo', 'value') it will add 'value' as an argument when it calls foo.
  • Add support for scgi (tx David Terrell for the patch).
  • Add support for web.py functions that are iterators (tx Brendan O'Connor for the patch).
  • Use new database cursors on each call instead of reusing one.
  • setcookie now takes an optional domain argument.
  • Fix bug in autoassign.
  • Fix bug where debugerror would break on objects it couldn't display.
  • Fix bug where you couldn't do #includes inline.
  • Fix bug with reloader and database calls.
  • Fix bug with reloader and base templates.
  • Fix bug with CGI mode on certain operating systems.
  • Fix bug where debug would crash if called outside a request.
  • Fix bug with context.ip giving weird values with proxies.

2006-01-29: 0.129

  • Add Python 2.2 support.

2006-01-28: 0.128

  • Fix typo in web.profile.

2006-01-28: 0.127

  • Fix bug in error message if invalid dbn is sent (tx Panos Laganakos).

2006-01-27: 0.126

  • Fix typos in Content-Type headers (tx Beat Bolli for the prod).

2006-01-22: 0.125

  • Support Cheetah 2.0.

2006-01-22: 0.124

  • Fix spacing bug (tx Tommi Raivio for the prod).

2006-01-16: 0.123

  • Fix bug with CGI usage (tx Eddie Sowden for the prod).

2006-01-14: 0.122

  • Allow DELETEs from web.query (tx Joost Molenaar for the prod).

2006-01-08: 0.121

  • Allow import of submodules like pkg.mod.cn (tx Sridhar Ratna).
  • Fix a bug in update (tx Sergey Khenkin).

2006-01-05: 0.12

  • Backwards-incompatible change: db_parameters is now a dictionary.
  • Backwards-incompatible change: sumdicts is now dictadd.
  • Add support for PyGreSQL, MySQL (tx Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson).
  • Use HTML for non-Cheetah error message.
  • New function htmlquote().
  • New function tryall().
  • ctx.output can now be set to a generator. (tx Brendan O'Connor)

2006-01-04: 0.117

  • Add support for psycopg 1.x. (tx Gregory Price)

2006-01-04: 0.116

  • Add support for Python 2.3. (tx Evan Jones)

2006-01-04: 0.115

  • Fix some bugs where database queries weren't reparameterized. Oops!
  • Fix a bug where run() wasn't getting the right functions.
  • Remove a debug statement accidentally left in.
  • Allow storify to be used on dictionaries. (tx Joseph Trent)

2006-01-04: 0.114

  • Make reloader work on Windows. (tx manatlan)
  • Fix some small typos that affected colorization. (tx Gregory Price)

2006-01-03: 0.113

  • Reorganize run() internals so mod_python can be used. (tx Nicholas Matsakis)

2006-01-03: 0.112

  • Make reloader work when code.py is called with a full path. (tx David Terrell)

2006-01-03: 0.111

  • Fixed bug in strips(). (tx Michael Josephson)

2006-01-03: 0.11

  • First public version.

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