Django 2.1 released

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Post by parvenu74 » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 2:56 PM UTC

Django 2.1 released
docs.djangoproject.com

Re: Django 2.1 released

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Post by collinmanderson » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 2:58 PM UTC

Release notes here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/releases/2.1/

Re: Django 2.1 released

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Post by blorenz » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 3:07 PM UTC

Congrats Django team! This iteration doesn't add too much for my current workings with the framework but it matures it none-the-less. My usual project compositions utilize Django, GraphQL, and React. I'm earnestly watching https://www.aeracode.org/2018/06/04/django-async-roadmap/ to hopefully work it's way into the near future releases.

Re: Django 2.1 released

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Post by StavrosK » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 3:13 PM UTC

Fantastic work! After the last few feature-packed releases, I'm happy to see a bugfix one. Upgrading should be a breeze.

Re: Django 2.1 released

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Post by Alex3917 » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 3:20 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #4

Fantastic work! After the last few feature-packed releases, I'm happy to see a bugfix one. Upgrading should be a breeze.

After running my test suite, I'm seeing zero deprecation warnings (let alone failures) in 2.1. I'll still wait a couple months before upgrading in production, but this should be one of the easiest upgrades in a long time.

Re: Django 2.1 released

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Post by theptip » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 3:21 PM UTC

Read-only model views are a great addition to the Django admin -- I've been watching that PR for a long time, glad to see it land.

This will make it a lot easier to build internal admin dashboards that are safe to share with non-privileged users like support staff.

Re: Django 2.1 released

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Post by fredley » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 3:22 PM UTC

I've been working with Django for almost my whole career, since 1.1. It's a joy to use, and blows any other web framework I've used out of the water when it comes to actually just building stuff.

Django is a fantastic boring[1] tool, and seeing boring updates like this is great.

1: http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

Re: Django 2.1 released

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Post by keshab » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 3:32 PM UTC

theptip wrote: post #6

Read-only model views are a great addition to the Django admin -- I've been watching that PR for a long time, glad to see it land. This will make it a lot easier to build internal admin dashboards that are safe to share with non-privileged users like support staff.

I have seen a bastardized version of Django admin used as a quite sophisticated dashboard. This new addition will make it even easier to hack together things like that in a very short time.

Re: Django 2.1 released

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Post by blackrock » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 3:33 PM UTC

fredley wrote: post #7

I've been working with Django for almost my whole career, since 1.1. It's a joy to use, and blows any other web framework I've used out of the water when it comes to actually just building stuff. Django is a fantastic boring[1] tool, and seeing boring updates like this is great. 1: http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

What do you use to write your front end Javascript?

Re: Django 2.1 released

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Post by blorenz » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 3:33 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #4

Fantastic work! After the last few feature-packed releases, I'm happy to see a bugfix one. Upgrading should be a breeze.

Agreed, or you end up with something that resembles the unfortunate path of iOS. I'm in the Apple ecosystem so this isn't an attack from an opposite camp, but a matter-of-fact cautionary tale about the kludge which has appeared when components have become untenable and not-so-great performance related.