Django 1.1 Features

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This page has the list of features to be included in Django 1.1 and their statuses. See Version1.1Roadmap for information on the process and definition of terms.

Must-have features

Code	Feature	Implementor	Committer	Ticket(s)	Commit rev.
Admin-03	Make the admin use a url resolver	Alex Gaynor	Brian	#6470	[9739]
Contrib-05	Message Passing For Anonymous Users	???	Malcolm	#4604	N/A ​moved to 1.2
Contrib-12	Cached DB session backend	Jeremy Dunck	JKM	#6791	[9727]
ORM-01	ORM aggregation	Nicolas Lara	Russ	#3566	[9742]
ORM-03	Model validation.	Honza Kral	(multiple)	#6845	N/A ​moved to 1.2
ORM-06	Expression support in QuerySet.update()	???	Russ	#7210	[9792]
Test-03	Run Django test cases inside a transaction	Marc Remolt	Karen	#8138	[9756]

"Maybe" features

First priority:

Code	Feature	Implementor	Committer	Ticket(s)	Commit rev.
Admin-01	Bulk-edit on changelist pages.	JKM + Wilson/Alex Gaynor	JKM	#8939	[10077]
Admin-02	Integrate django-batchadmin	Jannis Leidel	JKM	#10505	[10121]
Admin-05	ModelAdmin overriding of FK/M2M options	JKM et al	JKM	#3987	[9760]
Admin-06	Read-only form fields	???	Karen	#342
Admin-07	Custom FilterSpecs	???	James/JKM	#5833	N/A ​moved to 1.2
Admin-08	Make filters in admin changelists persistent	Ramiro	Brian	#6903	N/A ​moved to 1.2
Contrib-02	Customizability of contrib.comments	Carl Meyer	JKM	#8630, #9562	[9890]
Contrib-03	Roll in comment-utils	Thejaswi Puthraya/Jannis Leidel	JKM	#9282	[10122]
Contrib-06	Honor REMOTE_USER	Marc Fargas	Gary	#689	[10063]
Contrib-07	Implement Atom Publishing Protocol	James Tauber	JKM	#3569	N/A ​moved to 1.2
Contrib-11	Signed cookies	Marty Alchin	JKM	​http://code.google.com/p/django-signedcookies
ORM-14	QuerySet.defer()/QuerySet.fields()	Malcolm	JKM/Malcolm	#5420	[10090]
ORM-15	Day-of-week filter for date/datetime fields	Ross Poulton	Karen	#7672	[9818]
ORM-17	{% default %} clause for {% for %} loops	Jannis Leidel	JKM	#6398	[9530]
ORM-19	Add support for database schemas	???	Russ	#6148
Template-06	Better template tag loading	???	Malcolm	#6587, #3349
Test-01	Follow redirect chains on the Test Client	Marc Fargas	Russ	#4476	[9911]
Test-02	Disable all e-mail sending for debugging	???	Russ	#8638	[9793]
View-01	Class-based generic views	Marc Fargas	JKM	#6735
View-03	wsgi.file_wrapper for large file serving	???	JKM	#2131, #7894, #7581, PEP333

Second priority:

Code	Feature	Implementor	Committer	Ticket(s)	Commit rev.
Contrib-01	Session-based form wizard	David Durham	???	#9200
Form-02	Forms with built-in CSRF protection	???	???	#7167
ORM-09	Manager.update_or_create() and Model.update()	???	???	#3182
ORM-10	QuerySet.select_for_update() method.	???	???	#2705
ORM-11	QuerySet.cache() method.	???	???	#7338
ORM-12	Allow the use of property() in fields.	???	???	#3148
ORM-13	Support for DISTINCT ON queries	???	Malcolm	#6422
ORM-16	Native autocommit option for Postgresql	Richard Davies	Malcolm	#3460	[10029]
ORM-18	Add signals to many-to-many objects	???	Malcolm/Russ	#5390
Template-01	Extend inclusion tag syntax	???	???	#9093
Template-04	Clean-up of django.template internals	Johannes Dollinger	???	#7806
Template-05	Namespace support for template libraries	???	???	#2539

Rejected features

The following features were rejected or deferred:

Code	Feature	Result
ORM-02	​Object history	rejected: out of scope for Django's core.
ORM-04	​Public-facing multiple database API	deferred: proposal not yet fully-formed.
ORM-07	​Denormalized model fields (#8946)	deferred: proposal not yet fully-formed.
ORM-08	SchemaEvolution	deferred: numerous implementations, no clear winner.
ORM-20	​implement force_insert and force_update in ModelForm.save() (#8672)	rejected; not a desired feature.
ORM-21	Rename Model.Meta.verbose_name to label, like django.forms	rejected: backwards-incompatible with no real upside.
ORM-22	Ordering field and revitalize order_with_respect_to (See ​A, ​B)	deferred: no clear spec.
ORM-23	INSTALLED_APPS refactoring (app() object)	deferred: needs more work.
Template-02	Enhanced simple-tag decorator (access to context and easy block tags) (see also ​django-dev thread)	rejected in favor of more general template tag cleanup.
Template-03	Add keyword support to simple_tag and inclusion_tag	rejected in favor of more general template tag cleanup.
Test-04	​Integrate django-testmaker	rejected: out of scope for core.
View-04	​URL resolver refactor	defer: no clear purpose.
View-05	​Decouple authentication from calling a view	rejected: out of scope.
Admin-04	Improve flexibility of admin.autodiscover for custom admin sites	defer: no clear goals/spec.
Auth-01	​AnonymousUser that you can set specific permissions for	rejected: too many potential downsides.
Auth-02	​Allow for extendable auth_user module (add an abstract base class for User too)	rejected: too many potential downsides.
Contrib-04	​Integrate GSOC2008 djangosearch as django.contrib.search	defer: not done.
Contrib-08	​Media management for apps	defer: not a complete proposal.
Contrib-09	​django-logging	rejected: out of scope.
Contrib-10	​Breadcrumbs	rejected: out of scope.

Special cases

See generally, ​http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Version1.1Roadmap#special-cases.

GeoDjango

GeoDjango features for 1.1 are discussed on the GeoDjango 1.1 wiki page.

Not in consideration

Small/just bugs

Features proposed on this list that area just bugs to be fixed or really tiny feature additions that are not controversial in any way. They're still here for posterity, but have no real role in the feature proposal process.

• Make select_related work with reverse onetoones
• Add an append method to ErrorDict
• Remove blank spaces with strip when validating data
• #9124, #6231
• Wrap help_text in "<span class="helptext"></span>", like errors in "<ul class="errorlist"></ul>" in HTML output. #8426.
• Support clearing FileFields in the admin if blank=True
• ​ModelAdmin hook for customising the "show on site" button (#8261)
• Fix missing proxies throughout django.core.files.* -- See: tickets #9344 and #9404, and also ​on the dev-list.
• #5245
• ​Avoid double imports (see 8193) -- fixed as part of the 1.1 development cycle in [10088]
• #7980
• #9015

Rejected procedurally

These are proposed features that, as of the close date for proposals, lacked concrete proposals, proof-of-concept implementations, or details needed to start implementing.

• Add the ability to add fields to admin forms and the ability to intercept form submissions so the values of those fields could be accessed. This way admin plugins could be developed. [No concrete proposal]
• Please make Django installable with easy_install (ticket #6972, #3812) [Will be fixed with the 1.0.1 release].
• ​Create a benchmark to measure the impact changes have to code [No concrete proposal; doesn't need to be part of the release process regardless]
• Multilingual support in the db. There are some projects that could be integrated into the trunk as django-multilingual. [No concrete proposal]