Simon Willison’s Weblog

Django 1.0 alpha release notes. The big features are newforms-admin, unicode everywhere, the queryset-refactor ORM improvements and auto-escaping in templates.

# 22nd July 2008, 6:04 am / alpha, autoescaping, django, newformsadmin, orm, python, querysetrefactor, unicode

QuerysetRefactorBranch. What’s new and changed now that queryset-refactor has merged to trunk.

# 27th April 2008, 7:34 am / django, python, querysetrefactor

Queryset Implementation. Malcolm explains the work that has gone in to the queryset-refactor branch. Executive summary: Python’s ORM is probably a lot better at SQL than you are.

# 19th March 2008, 9:43 am / django, malcolmtredinnick, orm, python, querysetrefactor, sql

queryset-refactor changeset 7126. Malcolm just checked model inheritance in to the queryset-refactor branch, with full documentation and unit tests. People have been requesting this for ages.

# 18th February 2008, 9:46 am / django, inheritance, python, querysetrefactor