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What's new in CubicWeb 3.21?
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New features
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* the datadir-url configuration option lets one choose where static data files
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  are served (instead of the default ${base-url}/data/)
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* some integrity checking that was previously implemented in Python was
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  moved to the SQL backend.  This includes some constraints, and
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  referential integrity.  Some consequences are that:
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  - disabling integrity hooks no longer disables those checks
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  - upgrades that modify constraints will fail when running on sqlite
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    (but upgrades aren't supported on sqlite anyway)
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* for easier instance monitoring, cubicweb can regularly dump some statistics
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  (basically those exposed by the 'info' and 'gc' views) in json format to a file
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User-visible changes
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* the use of fckeditor for text form fields is disabled by default
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* the 'https-deny-anonymous' configuration setting no longer exists
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Code movement
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The cubicweb.web.views.timeline module (providing the timeline-json, timeline
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and static-timeline views) has moved to a standalone cube_
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.. _cube: https://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-timeline
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API changes
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* req.set_cookie's "expires" argument, if not None, is expected to be a
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  date or a datetime in UTC.  It was previously interpreted as localtime
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  with the UTC offset the server started in, which was inconsistent (we
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  are not aware of any users of that API).
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* the way to run tests on a postgresql backend has changed slightly, use
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  cubicweb.devtools.{start,stop}pgcluster in setUpModule and tearDownModule
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* the Connection and ClientConnection objects introduced in CubicWeb 3.19 have
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  been unified.  To connect to a repository, use:
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  session = repo.new_session(login, password=...)
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  with session.new_cnx() as cnx:
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      cnx.execute(...)
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  In tests, the 'repo_cnx' and 'client_cnx' methods of RepoAccess are now
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* the user_callback api has been removed; people should use plain
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  ajax functions instead
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* the `Pyro` and `Zmq-pickle` remote repository access methods have
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  and cwclientlib should be used instead).  Note that as a side effect,
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  and run ``cubicweb-ctl upgrade`` to update it.  Likewise, remote cubicweb-ctl
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  shell is no longer available.
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* the old (deprecated since 3.19) `DBAPI` api is completely removed
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* cubicweb.toolsutils.config_connect() has been removed