FeinCMS 1.7 release notes

Welcome to FeinCMS 1.7!

Extensions-mechanism refactor

The extensions mechanism has been refactored to remove the need to make models know about their related model admin classes. The new module feincms.extensions contains mixins and base classes - their purpose is as follows: Extensions.

View code refactor

Made views, content type and request / response processors reusable.

The legacy views at feincms.views.legacy were considered unhelpful and were removed.

Backwards-incompatible changes

Page manager methods behavior

Previously, the following page manager methods sometimes returned inactive objects or did not raise the appropriate (and asked for) Http404 exception:

  • Page.objects.page_for_path
  • Page.objects.best_match_for_path
  • Page.objects.for_request

The reason for that was that only the page itself was tested for activity in the manager method, and none of its ancestors. The check whether all ancestors are active was only conducted later in a request processor. This request processor was registered by default and was always run when Page.objects.for_request was called with setup=True.

However, request processors do not belong into the model layer. The necessity of running code belonging to a request-response cycle to get the correct answer from a manager method was undesirable. This has been rectified, those manager methods check the ancestry directly. The now redundant request processor require_path_active_request_processor has been removed.

Reversing application content URLs

The support for monkey-patching applicationcontent-awareness into Django’s django.core.urlresolvers.reverse() has been removed.

Removal of deprecated features

  • The old media library content type module feincms.content.medialibrary.models has been replaced with the contents of feincms.content.medialibrary.v2. The model field position has been renamed to type, instead of POSITION_CHOICES you should use TYPE_CHOICES now. The code has been simplified and hacks to imitate raw_id_fields have been replaced by working stock code. The v2 module will stay around for another release and will be removed in FeinCMS v1.8. The now-unused template admin/content/mediafile/init.html has been deleted.

New deprecations

  • Page.setup_request() does not do anything anymore and will be removed in FeinCMS v1.8.

Notable features and improvements

  • A lazy version of app_reverse() is now available, app_reverse_lazy().
  • Because of the extensions refactor mentioned above, all register_extension methods have been removed. Additionally, the model admin classes are not imported inside the models.py files anymore.
  • The setting FEINCMS_USE_PAGE_ADMIN can be set to false to prevent registration of the page model with the administration. This is especially useful if you only want to reuse parts of the page module.
  • Various classes in feincms.module.page do not hardcode the page class anymore; hooks are provided to use your own models instead. Please refer to the source for additional information.
  • Page.redirect_to can also contain the primary key of a page now, which means that the redirect target stays correct even if the page URL changes.
  • Before, page content was copied automatically when creating a translation of an existing page. This behavior can be deactivated by unchecking a checkbox now.
  • Work has begun to make the page forms, model admin classes and managers work with an abstract page model so that it will be easier to work with several page models in a single Django site.

Bugfixes

  • It should be possible to store FeinCMS models in a secondary database, as long as the base model and all content types are stored in the same database.
  • Changing templates in the item editor where the templates do not share common regions does not result in orphaned content blocks anymore.
  • feincms.utils.get_object() knows how to import modules, not only objects inside modules now.
  • The order and priority values for pages have been fixed when generating sitemaps.
  • Various save and delete methods now come with alters_data=True to prevent their use in templates.
  • Only one translation is permitted per language when using feincms.translations.
  • FeinCMS can now be used without django.contrib.sites.
  • If the fieldset of a content inline has been customized, the fieldset is not processed again to make sure that all form fields are actually shown. If you use dynamically generated fields in a content inline such as the application content does, you must not customize the fieldsets attribute of the FeinCMSInline.

Compatibility with Django and other apps

FeinCMS 1.7 requires Django 1.4 or better.