http://www.cubicweb.org/blogentry/2580877 http://www.cubicweb.org/blogentry/2580877 http://www.cubicweb.org/blogentry/2580877 <h3 class="title">What's new in CubicWeb 3.16?</h3> <div class="section" id="new-functionalities"> <h3><a>New functionalities</a></h3> <ul class="simple"> <li>Add a new dataimport store (<cite>SQLGenObjectStore</cite>). This store enables a fast import of data (entity creation, link creation) in CubicWeb, by directly flushing information in SQL. This may only be used with PostgreSQL, as it requires the 'COPY FROM' command.</li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" id="api-changes"> <h3><a>API changes</a></h3> <ul> <li><p class="first">Orm: <cite>set_attributes</cite> and <cite>set_relations</cite> are unified (and deprecated) in favor of <cite>cw_set</cite> that works in all cases.</p> </li> <li><p class="first">db-api/configuration: all the external repository connection information is now in an URL (see <a class="reference" href="http://www.cubicweb.org/2521848">#2521848</a>), allowing to drop specific options of pyro nameserver host, group, etc and fix broken <a class="reference" href="http://www.zeromq.org/">ZMQ</a> source. Configuration related changes:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>Dropped 'pyro-ns-host', 'pyro-instance-id', 'pyro-ns-group' from the client side configuration, in favor of 'repository-uri'. <strong>NO MIGRATION IS DONE</strong>, supposing there is no web-only configuration in the wild.</li> <li>Stop discovering the connection method through <cite>repo_method</cite> class attribute of the configuration, varying according to the configuration class. This is a first step on the way to a simpler configuration handling.</li> </ul> <p>DB-API related changes:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>Stop indicating the connection method using <cite>ConnectionProperties</cite>.</li> <li>Drop <cite>_cnxtype</cite> attribute from <cite>Connection</cite> and <cite>cnxtype</cite> from <cite>Session</cite>. The former is replaced by a <cite>is_repo_in_memory</cite> property and the later is totaly useless.</li> <li>Turn <cite>repo_connect</cite> into <cite>_repo_connect</cite> to mark it as a private function.</li> <li>Deprecate <cite>in_memory_cnx</cite> which becomes useless, use <cite>_repo_connect</cite> instead if necessary.</li> </ul> </li> <li><p class="first">the &quot;<a class="reference" href="tcp://">tcp://</a>&quot; uri scheme used for <a class="reference" href="http://www.zeromq.org/">ZMQ</a> communications (in a way reminiscent of Pyro) is now named &quot;zmqpickle-tcp://&quot;, so as to make room for future zmq-based lightweight communications (without python objects pickling).</p> </li> <li><p class="first">Request.base_url gets a <cite>secure=True</cite> optional parameter that yields an https url if possible, allowing hook-generated content to send secure urls (e.g. when sending mail notifications)</p> </li> <li><p class="first">Dataimport ucsvreader gets a new boolean <cite>ignore_errors</cite> parameter.</p> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" id="unintrusive-api-changes"> <h3><a>Unintrusive API changes</a></h3> <ul class="simple"> <li>Drop of <cite>cubicweb.web.uicfg.AutoformSectionRelationTags.bw_tag_map</cite>, deprecated since 3.6.</li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" id="user-interface-changes"> <h3><a>User interface changes</a></h3> <ul class="simple"> <li>The RQL search bar has now some auto-completion support. It means relation types or entity types can be suggested while typing. It is an awesome improvement over the current behaviour !</li> <li>The <cite>action box</cite> associated with <cite>table</cite> views (from <cite>tableview.py</cite>) has been transformed into a nice-looking series of small tabs; it means that the possible actions are immediately visible and need not be discovered by clicking on an almost invisible icon on the upper right.</li> <li>The <cite>uicfg</cite> module has moved to web/views/ and ui configuration objects are now selectable. This will reduce the amount of subclassing and whole methods replacement usually needed to customize the ui behaviour in many cases.</li> <li>Remove changelog view, as neither cubicweb nor known cubes/applications were properly feeding related files.</li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" id="other-changes"> <h3><a>Other changes</a></h3> <ul class="simple"> <li>'pyrorql' sources will be automatically updated to use an URL to locate the source rather than configuration option. 'zmqrql' sources were broken before this change, so no upgrade is needed...</li> <li>Debugging filters for Hooks and Operations have been added.</li> <li>Some cubicweb-ctl commands used to show the output of <cite>msgcat</cite> and <cite>msgfmt</cite>; they don't anymore.</li> </ul> </div> 2013-01-25T18:13-01:00 Aurelien Campeas