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Django 1.8.1 release notes¶
May 1, 2015
Django 1.8.1 fixes several bugs in 1.8 and includes some optimizations in the migrations framework.
Bugfixes¶
- Added support for serializing
timedelta
objects in migrations (#24566). - Restored proper parsing of the
testserver
command’s positional arguments (fixture names) (#24571). - Prevented
TypeError
in translation functionscheck_for_language()
andget_language_bidi()
when translations are deactivated (#24569). - Fixed
squashmigrations
command when usingSeparateDatabaseAndState
(#24278). - Stripped microseconds from
datetime
values when using an older version of the MySQLdb DB API driver as it does not support fractional seconds (#24584). - Fixed a migration crash when altering
ManyToManyField
s (#24513). - Fixed a crash with
QuerySet.update()
on foreign keys to one-to-one fields (#24578). - Fixed a regression in the model detail view of
admindocs
when a model has a reverse foreign key relation (#24624). - Prevented arbitrary file inclusions in
admindocs
(#24625). - Fixed a crash with
QuerySet.update()
on foreign keys to instances withuuid
primary keys (#24611). - Fixed database introspection with SQLite 3.8.9 (released April 8, 2015) (#24637).
- Updated
urlpatterns
examples generated bystartproject
to remove usage of referencing views by dotted path indjango.conf.urls.url()
which is deprecated in Django 1.8 (#24635). - Fixed queries where an expression was referenced in
order_by()
, but wasn’t part of the select clause. An example query isqs.annotate(foo=F('field')).values('pk').order_by('foo'))
(#24615). - Fixed a database table name quoting regression (#24605).
- Prevented the loss of
null
/not null
column properties during field alteration of MySQL databases (#24595). - Fixed JavaScript path of
contrib.admin
’s related field widget when using alternate static file storages (#24655). - Fixed a migration crash when adding new relations to models (#24573).
- Fixed a migration crash when applying migrations with model managers on Python 3 that were generated on Python 2 (#24701).
- Restored the ability to use iterators as queryset filter arguments (#24719).
- Fixed a migration crash when renaming the target model of a many-to-many relation (#24725).
- Removed flushing of the test database with
test --keepdb
, which prevented apps with data migrations from using the option (#24729). - Fixed
makemessages
crash in some locales (#23271). - Fixed help text positioning of
contrib.admin
fields that use theModelAdmin.filter_horizontal
andfilter_vertical
options (#24676). - Fixed
AttributeError: function 'GDALAllRegister' not found
error when initializingcontrib.gis
on Windows.
Optimizations¶
- Changed
ModelState
to deepcopy fields instead of deconstructing and reconstructing (#24591). This speeds up the rendering of model states and reduces memory usage when runningmanage.py migrate
(although other changes in this release may negate any performance benefits).