Release Roundup to Kick off December

14th December 2015 / by Patrick Altman in Release Notes

Django 1.9 is driving a lot of releases in Pinax lately. Last week saw a flurry of this activity. Here is a summary of releases that shipped.

django-user-accounts

DUA, as we like to refer to it, saw a 1.3.0 and then a couple days later a 1.3.1 release.

Fixed bug with ConfirmEmailView.get_context_data #198
Enabled universal wheel packaging
Added ability for sign up to support complex User hierarchies by accepting a model keyword argument to SignupView.create_user #188
Added a migration to address str/bytes issues
Updated class based views for compatiblity with Django 1.9+
Dropped support for Python 3.2
Updated TimeZoneField to extend CharField instead of using the deprected SubfieldBase #190
Updated minimum verions of dependencies
Fixed issue with generated ACCOUNT_LANGUAGES values #187
Set all EmailField to have a max_length=254 to avoid default changes between Django versions to trigger migrations #187
Fixed a deprecation warning when using get_current_site #186, #148
Fixed a translation issue that was causing the pl translation not to apply #182

pinax-submissions

This app is still in heavy development after extracting from Symposion, but lots of goodies to enjoy along the way with this release. Class-based views, Django 1.9+ support, and more in this 0.2.4 release.

Added Django 1.9+ support
Added migrations
Added universal wheel packaging
Added class-based views
Fixed bug in the HookSets left over from Symposion extraction
Made Python 3 compatible

pinax-documents

This 0.3.0 release was mainly to just fix compatiblity with Django 1.9+.

Made compatible with Python 3 and Django 1.9+
Added universal wheel packaging
BI: renamed template tag library from documents_tags to pinax_documents_tags

pinax-teams

There were a lot of releases last week starting with 0.9.0 and ending with 0.11.4. Many of these were the result of stumbling around with packaging issues and editing migrations (0.11.1 through 0.11.4).

Added support for Django 1.9+ and Python 3
Dropped support for Django earlier than 1.7 #19
Added universal wheel packaging
Namespaced models with the pinax_teams prefix to avoid collisions with other apps named teams
Removed South migrations #19
Updated to support django-reversion==1.10

pinax-invitations

Just a simple release to update for Django 1.9+, Python 3, and to add a wheel in the 4.0.4 release.

Added support for Django 1.9+ and Python 3
Added universal wheel packaging

pinax-blog

In addition to updated support for Django 1.9 and Python 3, pinax-blog enjoyed some contributions to add translation support in the 4.3.0 release.

Added support for Django 1.9+ and Python 3
Added universal wheel packaging
Added translation support #64
Added Japanese (ja) translation #65
Fixed import for Image model #71

metron

Updated this analytics app to support the way template tags are processed in Django 1.9+ for this 1.3.7 release.

Added support for Django 1.9