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Django 2.0 support is here!

Long time no blog.. However, this one brings some good news!

Most of our packages have been updated to support Django 2.0. They are easily to recognize, because all upgraded packages have been given a “2.0” version number. This choice simplifies the version management across all packages, and marks a clear support baseline.

The 2.0 packages support Django 1.10, 1.11 and 2.0. If you still run on Django 1.8, you can use the 1.x series. There have been a few backports to ease the transition for old projects. Available are:

django-fluent-blogs == 2.0
django-fluent-comments == 2.0
django-fluent-contents == 2.0
django-fluent-dashboard == 1.0
django-fluent-pages == 2.0.2
django-fluent-utils == 2.0
fluentcms-button == 2.0
fluentcms-contactform == 2.0
fluentcms-cookielaw == 2.0
fluentcms-countdown == 1.2
fluentcms-emailtemplates == 2.0
fluentcms-googlemaps == 1.4  # dependencies still need upgrading
fluentcms-jumbotron == 2.0
fluentcms-pager == 2.0
fluentcms-privatenotes == 2.0

The dependencies may not follow this version scheme, but are nonetheless compatible with Django 2.0:

django-any-imagefield == 0.9
django-any-urlfield == 2.4.2
django-parler == 1.9.1
django-polymorphic == 2.0
django-polymorphic-tree == 1.5
django-tag-parser == 3.1
django-template-analyzer == 1.6.1
django-wysiwyg == 0.7.1

One of the visible changes is the dashboard intro page, It uses flaticons now, to modernize the look!

Preliminary Django 1.9 support

Work is underway to make django-fluent compatible with Django 1.9. The following packages have been upgraded to support Django 1.9:

  • django-fluent-blogs
  • django-fluent-contents
  • django-fluent-comments
  • django-fluent-dashboard
  • django-any-urlfield
  • django-parler
  • django-polymorphic (with the exception of the admin)
  • django-polymorphic-tree
  • django-slug-preview

Work for django-fluent-pages is still underway. A 1.0b1 release is issued for testing. However, it does have issues with the admin and page moving that still need to be fixed. If you can help, please join in!

New features

  • A slug preview field, that shows which part of the URL will get the slug.
  • blogs: support for translatable category titles, using django-categories-i18n instead of django-categories.
  • blogs: a migrate_blog_categories command, to upgrade the category model.
  • pages: translations for the textfile pagetype.
  • pages: multiple fallback languages in URLs.
  • pages: draft CSS class in the menu, and “is_child_active” variable for templates.
  • contents: text-filters, to perform post-processing filters on textual content (e.g. apply smartypants, add soft-hyphenation).
  • contents: API for search engine integration.
  • contents: a debug toolbar panel for locating content.

The project template has been updated to use Django 1.8 with the latest package versions.

Django 1.7 and 1.8 support is here!

All packages have been upgraded to support Django 1.7 and 1.8! Since Django 1.8 is a new long-term-support release, we’ve fast-tracked those releases to make the latest features available.

These features include:

  • Multilingual support for all modules
  • Multisite support for all modules
  • Python 3 support!
  • Improved caching for performance
  • Additional SEO fields (e.g. page title)

For existing projects, you may want to upgrade to Django 1.7 only, until all other projects have migrated.
In our case, that is django-categories and django-contrib-comments.

New versions

Use the following versions in your requirements file:

django-fluent-pages >= 0.9
django
-fluent-contents >= 1.0.1
django
-fluent-blogs >= 1.0
django
-fluent-dashboard >= 0.5
django
-fluent-comments >= 1.0.2

Dependencies

Any requirements will be installed, but you can state these explicitly:

django-admin-tools >= 0.5.2
django
-any-imagefield >= 0.8.2
django
-any-urlfield >= 2.1.1
django
-fluent-utils >= 1.2.1
django
-polymorphic >= 0.7
django
-parler >= 1.4
django
-polymorphic-tree >= 1.1
django
-tag-parser >= 2.1
django
-taggit >= 0.13
django
-taggit-autosuggest >= 0.2.7
django-template
-analyzer >= 1.5
django
-threadedcomments >= 1.0b1
django
-tinymce >= 1.5.3
django
-wysiwyg >= 0.7.0

# For debugging:
django
-debugtools >= 1.3

 

Note: upgrading from Django 1.6

Once you use Django 1.7, the included South migrations are ignored. Hence, when upgrading both Django and the CMS pacakges you need to upgrade the CMS modules first while keeping the project on Django 1.6. After deploying that on production (so migrations have been applied), you can remove South and upgrade the project to Django 1.7. The native Django migrations will be applied (faked in fact).

Note: Comments module on Django 1.7/1.8

In Django 1.7 and 1.8, comments module relies on the new django-contrib-comments module. This is not compatible with Django 1.8 yet, please help these guys create a new release! In the meantime, use the following requirement to have Django 1.7 support:

# For proper Django 1.7 support:
# Place before django-fluent-comments or django-threadedcomments, so it installs this first
-e git+https://github.com/django/django-contrib-comments.git@8a99ed810e9e94cb9dff1c362b2c4ebe2e37dead#egg=django-contrib-comment
 

Support

Try it out, and let us know how it works!

Any issues can be posted in the GitHub issue trackers, posted at the django-fluent mailinglist or asked at #django-fluent on Freenode.

New beta releases of all packages, for improved multilingual and Django 1.7 support

New packages of the django-fluent apps have been released.
These packages support the latest multilingual features (such as translatable SEO fields),
and Django 1.7 support is included for most apps.

The following package versions can be used in the requirements.txt for Django 1.7 support:

django-fluent-pages >=0.9b4
django
-fluent-contents >=1.0c3
django
-fluent-blogs >=1.0b4

If you've used the previous beta versions, please note the upgrade notices. Some things had to be changed in a backwards-incompatible way for Django 1.7 support and multilingual support in SEO fields. See: https://github.com/edoburu/django-fluent-pages/blob/master/CHANGES.rst#upgrade-notices for all details.

Any dependencies will be installed automatically:

django-admin-tools >=0.5.2
django
-any-imagefield >=0.8.2
django
-any-urlfield >=2.0.3
django
-polymorphic >=0.6
django
-parler >=1.2.1
django-polymorphic-tree >=1.0.1
django
-tag-parser >=2.0
django
-taggit >=0.12.2
django
-taggit-autosuggest ==0.2.5
django
-tinymce >=1.5.3
django
-wysiwyg >=0.7.0

Note, the following packages are not checked yet for Django 1.7 support:

django-fluent-dashboard >=0.3.6
django
-fluent-comments >=1.0b1


The project template has also been improved and updated:
https://github.com/edoburu/django-project-template/

django-parler 1.0 is out!

To make creating multilingual websites easier, django-parler 1.0 has just been released! This package allows creating translatable user data, by translating Django model fields.

The release includes full documentation, and a few other awesome features:

  • Python 3 support
  • Caching translations for performance
  • Prefetch support for performance
  • Support translatable slugs
  • Switch the language of the current page easily.
  • Easy migration for projects that used django-hvad before.
  • ORM methods for filtering translated models.

This is also the base for the next release of django-fluent-pages and django-fluent-contents, which also have multilingual support in git.

Displaying a staff-toolbar

To make it easier for staff users to edit the current object in the admin, we've just released a new package: django-staff-toolbar. This allows displaying a nice menu at the website frontend:

The admin object is automatically detected, but can be overwritten in case the view doesn't provide an "object" variable in the template. See the README for more information

Lightning talk at DjangoCon EU 2014

For multilingual support, django-parler is at the base of the CMS. It provides the multilingual support which django-fluent-pages builds upon.

This presentation also explain why django-modeltranslation or django-hvad were nog used, and what complex inheritance were faced. Now features such as:

  • Python 3 support
  • Prefetching translations
  • Caching
  • High-level features such as `{% get_translated_url %}`.
  • Admin inlines

The road to multilingual support

In the current git-versions of django-fluent, multilingual support has been added. The translation support is based on django-parler.

Not django-hvad?

Our original plan was to use django-hvad as backend module. However, this turned out to be very difficult. The sad truth is that while django-hvad has a nice admin interface, table layout and model API, it also overrides much of the default behavior of querysets, the admin and model metaclasses. Currently, this prevents combining django-hvad with django-polymorphic or django-mptt, which are both used in django-fluent-pages.

A fresh start...

When investigating other multilingual packages, they either appeared to be outdated, store translations in the same table (too inflexible for us) or only provided a model API. Hence, there was a need for a new solution, using a simple, crude but effective API.

To get things started, multilingual support was coded directly within django-fluent-pages, while keeping a future django-hvad transition in mind. Instead of doing metaclass operations, the "shared model" just proxied all attributes to the translated model (all manually constructed). Queries just had to be performed using.filter(translations__title=..). This proved to be a sane solution and quickly it turned out that this code deserved a separate package. Some other modules (i.e. blogging, and shared contents) needed this functionality too.

..leading to django-parler

End of the story: we've created a new package; django-parler. As the tagline states, it easily translates "cheese omelet" into "omelette du fromage". :-) This package is an attempt to combine the best of both worlds; the API simplicity of django-hvad with the crude, but effective solution of proxying translated attributes. And yes, we've added some metaclass magic too - to make life easier - without loosing the freedom of manually using the API at your will.

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