diff -r 5bd914ebf3ae -r e95b559a06a2 doc/changes/3.21.rst --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/doc/changes/3.21.rst Thu Jul 02 19:54:25 2015 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +What's new in CubicWeb 3.21? +============================ + +New features +------------ + +* the datadir-url configuration option lets one choose where static data files + are served (instead of the default ${base-url}/data/) + +* some integrity checking that was previously implemented in Python was + moved to the SQL backend. This includes some constraints, and + referential integrity. Some consequences are that: + + - disabling integrity hooks no longer disables those checks + - upgrades that modify constraints will fail when running on sqlite + (but upgrades aren't supported on sqlite anyway) + +* for easier instance monitoring, cubicweb can regularly dump some statistics + (basically those exposed by the 'info' and 'gc' views) in json format to a file + +User-visible changes +-------------------- + +* the use of fckeditor for text form fields is disabled by default + +* the 'https-deny-anonymous' configuration setting no longer exists + +Code movement +------------- + +The cubicweb.web.views.timeline module (providing the timeline-json, timeline +and static-timeline views) has moved to a standalone cube_ + +.. _cube: https://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-timeline + +API changes +----------- + +* req.set_cookie's "expires" argument, if not None, is expected to be a + date or a datetime in UTC. It was previously interpreted as localtime + with the UTC offset the server started in, which was inconsistent (we + are not aware of any users of that API). + +* the way to run tests on a postgresql backend has changed slightly, use + cubicweb.devtools.{start,stop}pgcluster in setUpModule and tearDownModule + +* the Connection and ClientConnection objects introduced in CubicWeb 3.19 have + been unified. To connect to a repository, use:: + + session = repo.new_session(login, password=...) + with session.new_cnx() as cnx: + cnx.execute(...) + + In tests, the 'repo_cnx' and 'client_cnx' methods of RepoAccess are now + aliases to 'cnx'. + +Deprecated code drops +--------------------- + +* the user_callback api has been removed; people should use plain + ajax functions instead + +* the `Pyro` and `Zmq-pickle` remote repository access methods have + been entirely removed (emerging alternatives such as rqlcontroller + and cwclientlib should be used instead). Note that as a side effect, + "repository-only" instances (i.e. without a http component) are no + longer possible. If you have any such instances, you will need to + rename the configuration file from repository.conf to all-in-one.conf + and run ``cubicweb-ctl upgrade`` to update it. Likewise, remote cubicweb-ctl + shell is no longer available. + +* the old (deprecated since 3.19) `DBAPI` api is completely removed + +* cubicweb.toolsutils.config_connect() has been removed