Django 1.2 Features

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This page has the list of features currently being considered for inclusion in Django 1.2. See Version1.2Roadmap for information on the process and definition of terms.

Features under consideration

• Multi-database support (Alex Gaynor's GSoC project)
• Improved/reworked CsrfProtection (see #9977, #10816)
• i18n improvements (Marc Garcia's GSoC project)
• Add {% doctype %} and {% field %} template tags from ​http://github.com/simonw/django-html/
• Smarter {% if %} tag from ​http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1350/
• Syndication feed views and better Atom support: ​http://github.com/bfirsh/syndication-view/
• Search support in the ORM: ​http://github.com/bfirsh/django/tree/search
• Support for non-relational databases: Google Bigtable, Amazon SimpleDB, CouchDB, etc

Note that a large list of 1.2 tickets already exists: ​http://code.djangoproject.com/milestone/1.2

• #342 Read-only form fields
• #373 Multi-part primary keys
• #399 Support 8-byte integer DB-fields (bigint)
• #494 Option for classes on admin inlines
• #2443 Implement DurationFields
• #3349, #6587 Better template tag loading
• #3569 Implement Atom Publishing Protocol
• #4604 Message Passing For Anonymous Users
• #4656 Full serialization
• #5833 Custom FilterSpecs
• #6148 Add support for database schemas
• #6378 Capture arbitrary output as a template variable (or add a capture ttag)
• #6460 Multilingual Content in the db
• #6735 Class-based generic views
• #6845 Model validation (Honza Kral's GSoC project)
• #6903 Admin app: Go back to old change_list view after saving model instance
• #9200 Session-based FormWizard
• #9289 Swedish (se) localflavor
• #10752 Enhanced Bash Completion
• #10871 Support for input arguments on admin actions.
• #11402 exists() method on QuerySets

Lieutenants and Committers

The lieutenants and committers for each feature will be decided when the feature list is formalized.