<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang=""> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Django 1.8.8 release notes — Django 1.8.19 documentation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/default.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript"> var DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS = { URL_ROOT: '../', VERSION: '1.8.19', COLLAPSE_INDEX: false, FILE_SUFFIX: '.html', HAS_SOURCE: true }; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/underscore.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/doctools.js"></script> <link rel="index" title="Index" href="../genindex.html" /> <link rel="search" title="Search" href="../search.html" /> <link rel="top" title="Django 1.8.19 documentation" href="../contents.html" /> <link rel="up" title="Release notes" href="index.html" /> <link rel="next" title="Django 1.8.7 release notes" href="1.8.7.html" /> <link rel="prev" title="Django 1.8.9 release notes" href="1.8.9.html" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="../templatebuiltins.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> (function($) { if (!django_template_builtins) { // templatebuiltins.js missing, do nothing. return; } $(document).ready(function() { // Hyperlink Django template tags and filters var base = "../ref/templates/builtins.html"; if (base == "#") { // Special case for builtins.html itself base = ""; } // Tags are keywords, class '.k' $("div.highlight\\-html\\+django span.k").each(function(i, elem) { var tagname = $(elem).text(); if ($.inArray(tagname, django_template_builtins.ttags) != -1) { var fragment = tagname.replace(/_/, '-'); $(elem).html("<a href='" + base + "#" + fragment + "'>" + tagname + "</a>"); } }); // Filters are functions, class '.nf' $("div.highlight\\-html\\+django span.nf").each(function(i, elem) { var filtername = $(elem).text(); if ($.inArray(filtername, django_template_builtins.tfilters) != -1) { var fragment = filtername.replace(/_/, '-'); $(elem).html("<a href='" + base + "#" + fragment + "'>" + filtername + "</a>"); } }); }); })(jQuery); </script> </head> <body role="document"> <div class="document"> <div id="custom-doc" class="yui-t6"> <div id="hd"> <h1><a href="../index.html">Django 1.8.19 documentation</a></h1> <div id="global-nav"> <a title="Home page" href="../index.html">Home</a> | <a title="Table of contents" href="../contents.html">Table of contents</a> | <a title="Global index" href="../genindex.html">Index</a> | <a title="Module index" href="../py-modindex.html">Modules</a> </div> <div class="nav"> « <a href="1.8.9.html" title="Django 1.8.9 release notes">previous</a> | <a href="index.html" title="Release notes" accesskey="U">up</a> | <a href="1.8.7.html" title="Django 1.8.7 release notes">next</a> »</div> </div> <div id="bd"> <div id="yui-main"> <div class="yui-b"> <div class="yui-g" id="releases-1.8.8"> <div class="section" id="s-django-1-8-8-release-notes"> <span id="django-1-8-8-release-notes"></span><h1>Django 1.8.8 release notes<a class="headerlink" href="#django-1-8-8-release-notes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p><em>January 2, 2016</em></p> <p>Django 1.8.8 fixes several bugs in 1.8.7.</p> <p>Python 3.2 users, please be advised that we’ve decided to drop support for Python 3.2 in Django 1.8.x at the end of 2016. We won’t break things intentionally after that, but we won’t test subsequent releases against Python 3.2 either. Upstream support for Python 3.2 ends February 2016 so we don’t find much value in providing security updates for a version of Python that could be insecure. To read more about the decision and to let us know if this will be problematic for you, please read the <a class="reference external" href="https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/eMu5UQpUdWs/discussion">django-developers thread</a>.</p> <div class="section" id="s-bugfixes"> <span id="bugfixes"></span><h2>Bugfixes<a class="headerlink" href="#bugfixes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <ul class="simple"> <li>Fixed incorrect <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">unique_together</span></code> field name generation by <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inspectdb</span></code> (<a class="reference external" href="https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25274">#25274</a>).</li> <li>Corrected <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">__len</span></code> query lookup on <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ArrayField</span></code> for empty arrays (<a class="reference external" href="https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25772">#25772</a>).</li> <li>Restored the ability to use custom formats from <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">formats.py</span></code> with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.utils.formats.get_format()</span></code> and the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">date</span></code> template filter (<a class="reference external" href="https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25812">#25812</a>).</li> <li>Fixed a state bug when migrating a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">SeparateDatabaseAndState</span></code> operation backwards (<a class="reference external" href="https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25896">#25896</a>).</li> <li>Fixed missing <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">varchar/text_pattern_ops</span></code> index on <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CharField</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TextField</span></code> respectively when using <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">AlterField</span></code> on PostgreSQL (<a class="reference external" href="https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25412">#25412</a>).</li> <li>Fixed a state bug when using an <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">AlterModelManagers</span></code> operation (<a class="reference external" href="https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25852">#25852</a>).</li> <li>Fixed a regression which prevented using a language not in Django’s default language list (<a class="reference internal" href="../ref/settings.html#std:setting-LANGUAGES"><code class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">LANGUAGES</span></code></a>) (<a class="reference external" href="https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25915">#25915</a>).</li> <li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.views.decorators.cache.never_cache()</span></code> now sends more persuasive headers (added <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">no-cache,</span> <span class="pre">no-store,</span> <span class="pre">must-revalidate</span></code> to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Cache-Control</span></code>) to better prevent caching (<a class="reference external" href="https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/13008">#13008</a>). This fixes a problem where a page refresh in Firefox cleared the selected entries in the admin’s <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">filter_horizontal</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">filter_vertical</span></code> widgets, which could result in inadvertent data loss if a user didn’t notice that and then submitted the form (<a class="reference external" href="https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/22955">#22955</a>).</li> <li>Fixed a regression in the admin which ignored line breaks in read-only fields instead of converting them to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre"><br></span></code> (<a class="reference external" href="https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25465">#25465</a>).</li> <li>Made <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">loaddata</span></code> skip disabling and enabling database constraints when it doesn’t load any fixtures (<a class="reference external" href="https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23372">#23372</a>).</li> <li>Fixed a crash in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">QuerySet.values()/values_list()</span></code> after an <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">annotate()</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">order_by()</span></code> when <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">values()/values_list()</span></code> includes a field not in the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">order_by()</span></code> (<a class="reference external" href="https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25316">#25316</a>).</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="yui-b" id="sidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h3><a href="../contents.html">Table Of Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#">Django 1.8.8 release notes</a><ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#bugfixes">Bugfixes</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3>Browse</h3> <ul> <li>Prev: <a href="1.8.9.html">Django 1.8.9 release notes</a></li> <li>Next: <a href="1.8.7.html">Django 1.8.7 release notes</a></li> </ul> <h3>You are here:</h3> <ul> <li> <a href="../index.html">Django 1.8.19 documentation</a> <ul><li><a href="index.html">Release notes</a> <ul><li>Django 1.8.8 release notes</li></ul> </li></ul> </li> </ul> <div role="note" aria-label="source link"> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../_sources/releases/1.8.8.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <form class="search" action="../search.html" method="get"> <div><input type="text" name="q" /></div> <div><input type="submit" value="Go" /></div> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <h3>Last update:</h3> <p class="topless">Mar 10, 2018</p> </div> </div> <div id="ft"> <div class="nav"> « <a href="1.8.9.html" title="Django 1.8.9 release notes">previous</a> | <a href="index.html" title="Release notes" accesskey="U">up</a> | <a href="1.8.7.html" title="Django 1.8.7 release notes">next</a> »</div> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> </body> </html>