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0.96 -> 1.0
===========

Django 1.0 has a number of backwards-incompatible changes from Django
0.96. If you have apps written against Django 0.96 that you need to port,
see the detailed porting guide:
/usr/share/doc/python-django/html/releases/1.0-porting-guide.html
or
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.0-porting-guide/

You can also find a complete list of of backwards incompatible changes
here:
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/BackwardsIncompatibleChanges

0.95 -> 0.96
============

Information here has been gathered from:
    http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/release_notes_0.96/
and
    http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/BackwardsIncompatibleChanges

Backwards Incompatible Changes
------------------------------

    Database constraint names changed
    =================================

    As of [3512], the format of the constraint names Django generates for
    foreign key references changed slightly. These names are only used
    sometimes, when it is not possible to put the reference directly on the
    affected column, so this is not always visible.

    The effect of this change is that manage.py reset app_name and similar
    commands may generate SQL with invalid constraint names and thus generate
    an error when run against the database (the database server will complain
    about the constraint not existing). To fix this, you will need to tweak the
    output of manage.py sqlreset app_name to match the correct constraint names
    and pass the results to the database server manually. 

    Backslash escaping changed
    ==========================

    As of [3552], the Django database API now escapes backslashes given as
    query parameters. If you have any database API code that match backslashes,
    and it was working before (despite the broken escaping), you'll have to
    change your code to "unescape" the slashes one level.

    For example, this used to work:

    # Code that matches a single backslash
    MyModel.objects.filter(text__contains='\\\\')

    But it should be rewritten as this:

    # Code that matches a single backslash
    MyModel.objects.filter(text__contains='\\')

    Removed ENABLE_PSYCO setting
    ============================

    As of [3877], the ENABLE_PSYCO setting no longer exists. If your settings
    file includes ENABLE_PSYCO, nothing will break per se, but it just won't do
    anything. If you want to use Psyco with Django, write some custom
    middleware that activates Psyco.

    Changed Admin.manager option to more flexible hook
    ==================================================

    As of [4342], the manager option to class Admin no longer exists. This
    option was undocumented, but we're mentioning the change here in case you
    used it. In favor of this option, class Admin may now define one of these
    methods:

        * queryset()
        * queryset_add()
        * queryset_change() 

    These give you much more flexibility.

    Note that this change was made to the NewformsAdminBranch. (We initially
    called the new method change_list_queryset, but this was changed in [4584]
    to be more flexible.) The change will not be made to trunk until that
    branch is merged to trunk.

    Changed prepopulate_from to be defined in the Admin class, 
    not database field classes ΒΆ
    ==========================================================

    As of [4446], the prepopulate_from option to database fields no
    longer exists. It's been discontinued in favor of the new
    prepopulated_fields option on class Admin. The new
    prepopulated_fields option, if given, should be a dictionary
    mapping field names to lists/tuples of field names. Here's an
    example comparing old syntax and new syntax:

    # OLD:
    class MyModel(models.Model):
        first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
        last_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
        slug = models.CharField(maxlength=60, prepopulate_from=('first_name', 'last_name'))

        class Admin:
            pass

    # NEW:
    class MyModel(models.Model):
        first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
        last_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
        slug = models.CharField(maxlength=60)

        class Admin:
            prepopulated_fields = {'slug': ('first_name', 'last_name')}

    Moved admin doc views into django.contrib.admindocs
    ====================================================

    As of [4585], the documentation views for the Django admin site were moved
    into a new package, django.contrib.admindocs.

    The admin docs, which aren't documented very well, were located at docs/ in
    the admin site. They're also linked-to by the "Documentation" link in the
    upper right of default admin templates.

    Because we've moved the doc views, you now have to activate admin docs
    explicitly. Do this by adding the following line to your URLconf:

    (r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

    Note that this change was made to the NewformsAdminBranch. The change will
    not be made to trunk until that branch is merged to trunk.

    Enforcing MySQLdb version
    =========================

    As of [4724], Django will raise an error if you try to use the MySQL
    backend with a MySQLdb ( MySQL python module) version earlier than 1.2.1p2.
    There were significant, production-related bugs in earlier versions, so we
    have upgraded the minimum requirement.

    In [4767], a mysql_old backend was added, that is identical to the original
    mysql backend prior to the change in [4724]. This backend can be used if
    upgrading the MySQLdb module is not immediately possible, however, it is
    deprecated and no further development will be done on it. 

New Features
------------
    
    New forms library
    =================

    The new forms library has been merged from the new forms branch in to
    django.newforms in 0.96, the next revision will replace django.forms with
    django.newforms, the current forms library is already copied to
    django.oldforms to make the transition easier - it's advised to either
    upgrade your forms code to the newforms library or to change your imports
    as follows:
        
        from django import forms
    becomes
        from django import oldforms as forms
    
    URLconf improvements
    ====================
    
    It's now possible to use imported views in the urlconf rather than a string
    representing the view to call.

    Test framework
    ==============

    Now possible to write tests based on doctest and unittest

    Admin area changes
    ==================

    Changes to the user adding and updating views so that you don't need to
    worry about hashed passwords.