Commit 5219bc9f authored by Russell Keith-Magee's avatar Russell Keith-Magee
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We're not going to have an alpha-2, so use those notes as the starting point for the beta notes. 

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Django 1.3 alpha 2 release notes

Django 1.3 beta 1 release notes

================================



Welcome to Django 1.3 alpha 2!

Welcome to Django 1.3 beta 1!



This is the second in a series of preview/development releases leading

up to the eventual release of Django 1.3. This release is primarily
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As such, this release is *not* intended for production use, and any such use

is discouraged.



What's new in Django 1.3 alpha 2

================================

What's new in Django 1.3 beta 1

===============================



Further tweaks to the staticfiles app

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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A side effect of this duplication was the missing adoption of the changes made

in r12634_ to support a broader set of characters for usernames.



This release refactores the admin's login mechanism to use a subclass of the

This release refactors the admin's login mechanism to use a subclass of the

:class:`~django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm` instead of a manual

form validation. The previously undocumented method

``'django.contrib.admin.sites.AdminSite.display_login_form'`` has been removed
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releases will be made available. The current schedule consists of at

least the following:



* Week of **November 29, 2010**: First Django 1.3 beta release. Final

  feature freeze for Django 1.3.



* Week of **January 10, 2011**: First Django 1.3 release

* Week of **January 24, 2011**: First Django 1.3 release

  candidate. String freeze for translations.



* Week of **January 17, 2011**: Django 1.3 final release.

* Week of **January 31, 2011**: Django 1.3 final release.



If necessary, additional alpha, beta or release-candidate packages

If necessary, additional beta or release-candidate packages

will be issued prior to the final 1.3 release. Django 1.3 will be

released approximately one week after the final release candidate.
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=======================



In order to provide a high-quality 1.3 release, we need your help. Although this

alpha release is, again, *not* intended for production use, you can help the

Django team by trying out the alpha codebase in a safe test environment and

beta release is, again, *not* intended for production use, you can help the

Django team by trying out the beta codebase in a safe test environment and

reporting any bugs or issues you encounter. The Django ticket tracker is the

central place to search for open issues:
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Contributions on any level -- developing code, writing documentation or simply

triaging tickets and helping to test proposed bugfixes -- are always welcome and

appreciated.
 


Several development sprints will also be taking place before the 1.3

release; these will typically be announced in advance on the

django-developers mailing list, and anyone who wants to help is

welcome to join in.
 
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docs/releases/index.txt

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.. toctree::

   :maxdepth: 1



   1.3-alpha-2

   1.3-beta-1

   1.3-alpha-1

   1.2-rc-1

   1.2-beta-1