Small corrections to 1.3-alpha release notes (an unintended paragraph break,...

Django 1.3 adds a framework that allows you to use a class as a view.

This means you can compose a view out of a collection of methods that

can be subclassed and overridden to provide

Analogs of all the old function-based generic views have been

provided, along with a completely generic view base class that can be

used as the basis for reusable applications that can be easily

extended.

See :doc:`the documentation on Generic Views</topics/generic-views>`

for more details. There is also a document to help you :doc:`convert

your function-based generic views to class-based

can be subclassed and overridden to provide analogs of all the old

function-based generic views have been provided, along with a completely

generic view base class that can be used as the basis for reusable

applications that can be easily extended.

See :doc:`the documentation on Class-based Generic Views

</topics/class-based-views>` for more details. There is also a document to

help you :doc:`convert your function-based generic views to class-based

views</topics/generic-views-migration>`.

Logging

process has been on adding lots of smaller, long standing feature

requests. These include:

    * Improved tools for accessing and manipulating the current Site.

    * Improved tools for accessing and manipulating the current Site via

      :func:`django.contrib.sites.models.get_current_site`.

    * A :class:`~django.test.client.RequestFactory` for mocking

      requests in tests.

    For more details, see the documentation :doc:`Django's release process

    </internals/release-process>` and our :doc:`deprecation timeline

    </internals/deprecation>`.`

    </internals/deprecation>`.

``mod_python`` support

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has shifted all of his efforts toward the lighter, slimmer, more stable, and

more flexible ``mod_wsgi`` backend.

If you are currently using the ``mod_python`` request handler, it is strongly

encouraged you redeploy your Django instances using :doc:`mod_wsgi

If you are currently using the ``mod_python`` request handler, you are strongly

encouraged to redeploy your Django instances using :doc:`mod_wsgi

</howto/deployment/modwsgi>`.

Function-based generic views