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** 2011-07-04: web.py 0.36**

• Upgraded to CherryPy WSGIServer 3.2.0. -- #66
• Various Jython compatibility fixes (tx Ben Noordhuis)
• allow strips to accept lists -- #69
• Improvements to setcookie (tx lovelylain) -- #65
• Added contains method to Session. (tx lovelylain) #65
• Added secure option to session. -- #38
• Fixed db.delete error with using clause (tx berndtj) -- #28
• Fixed the case of no where-clauses in db.where
• Fixed threadlocal error in python2.3 -- #77
• Fixed TemplateResult inconsistant behavior -- #78
• Fixed query execution issues with MSSQL -- #71

** 2011-05-15: web.py 0.35**

• Better ThreaedDict implementation using threadlocal (tx Ben Hoyt)
• Make Form a new-style class -- #53
• Optimized SQLQuery.join and generation of multiple_insert query -- #58
• New: support for Amazon's Simple Email Service
• Added httponly keyword to setcookie (tx Justin Davis)
• Added httponly only option to sessions and enabled it by default (tx Justin Davis)
• made htmlquote and htmlunquote work with unicode
• Added doseq support for web.url
• New flag web.config.debug_sql to control printing of db queries (tx Nimrod S. Kerrett)
• Fixed inserting default values into MySQL -- #49
• Fixed rendering of Dropdown with mutliple values (tx krowbar) -- #43
• Fixed mutliple set-cookie header issue with session -- #45
• Fixed error in safeunicode when used with appengine datastore objects
• Fixed unicode error in generating debugerror -- #26
• Fixed GAE compilation issue -- #24
• Fixed unicode encoding issue in templates -- #17
• Fixed a bug in form.RadioButton when called with tuple options (tx fhsm) -- #13
• Fixed error in creating PostgresDB with pgdb driver (tx cninucci) -- #23
• Support auto convertion of timestamp/date datatypes in sqlite to datetime.data objects -- #22
• Fixed escaping issue on GAE -- #10
• fixed form.validates for checkbox (tx Justin Davis).
• fixed duplicate content-type in web.sendmail -- #20
• Fix: create session dirs if required (tx Martin Marcher)
• Fixed safestr to make use of encoding argument (tx s7v7nislands)
• Don't allow /static/../foo urls in dev webserver (tx Arnar Lundesgaard)
• Disabled debug mode in flup server (tx irrelative) -- #35
• And a lot of unicode fixes

** 2010-03-20: web.py 0.34**

• fix: boolen test works even for sqlite results (tx Emyr Thomas for the idea)
• fix issue with loop.xx variables in templetor (Bug#476708)
• hide unwanted tracebacks in debugerror
• display correct template line numbers in debugerror
• new utilities: counter, safeiter, safewrite, requeue, restack (by Aaron Swartz)
• various form.py fixes and improvements
• automatically escape % characters in the db query (Bug#516516)
• fix non-deterministic template order (Bug#490209)
• attachment support for web.sendmail (tx gregglind)
• template.py optimizations and extension support

2009-10-28: web.py 0.33

• form.Button takes optional argument html
• remove obsolete write function in http.py (tx Justin) (Bug#315337)
• refactor httpserver.runsimple code
• improve form.py for customizability
• new: add background updating to memoize
• fix: use sendmail from web.config.sendmail_path (tx Daniel Schwartz)
• fix: make web.profiler work on Windows (tx asmo) (Bug#325139)
• fix changequery to make it work correctly even when the input has multi-valued fields (Bug#118229)
• fix: make sure sequence exists before queying for currval(seqname) when executing postgres insert query (Bug#268705)
• fix: raise web.notfound() instead of return in autodelegate (tx SeC)
• fix: raise NotSupportedError when len or bool is used on sqlite result (Bug#179644)
• fix: make db paramater optional for creating postgres DB to allow taking it from environ. (Bug#153491)
• fix unicode errors in db module
• fix: convert unicode strings to UTF8 before printing SQL queries
• fix unicode error in debugerror
• fix: don't convert file upload data to unicode even when file={} is not passed to web.input
• fix checkbox value/checked confusion (Bug#128233)
• fix: consider empty lines as part of the indented block in templetor
• fix: fix a bug in web.group

2009-06-04: web.py 0.32

• optional from_address to web.emailerrors
• upgrade wsgiserver to CherryPy/3.1.2
• support for extensions in Jinja2 templates (tx Zhang Huangbin)
• support web.datestr for datetime.date objects also
• support for lists in db queries
• new: uniq and iterview
• fix: set debug=False when application is run with mod_wsgi (tx Patrick Swieskowski) Bug#370904
• fix: make web.commify work with decimals Bug#317204
• fix: unicode issues with sqlite database Bug#373219
• fix: urlquote url when the server is lighttpd Bug#339858
• fix: issue with using date.format in templates
• fix: use TOP instead of LIMIT in mssql database Bug#324049
• fix: make sessions work well with expirations
• fix: accept both list and tuple as arg values in form.Dropdown Bug#314970
• fix: match parenthesis when parsing for statement in templates
• fix: fix python 2.3 compatibility
• fix: ignore dot folders when compiling templates (tx Stuart Langridge)
• fix: don't consume KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit errors
• fix: make application work well with iterators

** 2008-12-10: 0.31**

• new: browser module
• new: test utilities
• new: ShelfStore
• fix: web.cookies error when default is None
• fix: paramstyle for OracleDB (tx kromakey)
• fix: performance issue in SQLQuery.join
• fix: use wsgi.url_scheme to find ctx.protocol

2008-12-06: 0.3

• new: replace print with return (backward-incompatible)
• new: application framework (backward-incompatible)
• new: modular database system (backward-incompatible)
• new: templetor reimplementation
• new: better unicode support
• new: debug mode (web.config.debug)
• new: better db pooling
• new: sessions
• new: support for GAE
• new: etag support
• new: web.openid module
• new: web.nthstr
• fix: various form.py fixes
• fix: python 2.6 compatibility
• fix: file uploads are not loaded into memory
• fix: SQLLiteral issue (Bug#180027)
• change: web.background is moved to experimental (backward-incompatible)
• improved API doc generation (tx Colin Rothwell)

2008-01-19: 0.23

• fix: for web.background gotcha (133079)
• fix: for postgres unicode bug (177265)
• fix: web.profile behavior in python 2.5 (133080)
• fix: only uppercase HTTP methods are allowed. (176415)
• fix: transaction error in with statement (125118)
• fix: fix in web.reparam (162085)
• fix: various unicode issues (137042, 180510, 180549, 180653)
• new: support for https
• new: support for secure cookies
• new: sendmail
• new: htmlunquote

2007-08-23: 0.22

• compatibility with new DBUtils API (122112)
• fix reloading (118683)
• fix compatibility between changequery and redirect (118234)
• fix relative URI in web.redirect (118236)
• fix ctx._write support in built-in HTTP server (121908)
• fix numify strips things after '.'s (118644)
• fix various unicode isssues (114703, 120644, 124280)

2007-05-28: 0.21

• security fix: prevent bad characters in headers
• support for cheetah template reloading
• support for form validation
• new form.File
• new web.url
• fix rendering issues with hidden and button inputs
• fix 2.3 incompatability with numify
• fix multiple headers with same name
• fix web.redirect issues when homepath is not /
• new CherryPy wsgi server
• new nested transactions
• new sqlliteral

2006-05-09: 0.138

• New function: intget
• New function: datestr
• New function: validaddr
• New function: sqlwhere
• New function: background, backgrounder
• New function: changequery
• New function: flush
• New function: load, unload
• New variable: loadhooks, unloadhooks
• Better docs; generating docs from web.py now
• global variable REAL_SCRIPT_NAME can now be used to work around lighttpd madness
• fastcgi/scgi servers now can listen on sockets
• output now encodes Unicode
• input now takes optional _method argument
• Potentially-incompatible change: input now returns badrequest automatically when requireds aren't found
• storify now takes lists and dictionaries as requests (see docs)
• redirect now blanks any existing output
• Quote SQL better when db_printing is on
• Fix delay in nomethod
• Fix urlquote to encode better.
• Fix 2.3 incompatibility with iters (tx ??)
• Fix duplicate headers
• Improve storify docs
• Fix IterBetter to raise IndexError, not KeyError

2006-03-27: 0.137

• Add function dictfindall (tx Steve Huffman)
• Add support to autodelegate for arguments
• Add functions httpdate and parsehttpdate
• Add function modified
• Add support for FastCGI server mode
• Clarify dictadd documentation (tx Steve Huffman)
• Changed license to public domain
• Clean up to use ctx and env instead of context and environ
• Improved support for PUT, DELETE, etc. (tx list)
• Fix ctx.fullpath (tx Jesir Vargas)
• Fix sqlite support (tx Dubhead)
• Fix documentation bug in lstrips (tx Gregory Petrosyan)
• Fix support for IPs and ports (1/2 tx Jesir Vargas)
• Fix ctx.fullpath (tx Jesir Vargas)
• Fix sqlite support (tx Dubhead)
• Fix documentation bug in lstrips (tx Gregory Petrosyan)
• Fix iters bug with sets
• Fix some breakage introduced by Vargas's patch
• Fix sqlors bug
• Fix various small style things (tx Jesir Vargas)
• Fix bug with input ignoring GET input

2006-02-22: 0.136 (svn)

• Major code cleanup (tx to Jesir Vargas for the patch).
• 2006-02-15: 0.135
• Really fix that mysql regression (tx Sean Leach).
• 2006-02-15: 0.134
• The StopIteration exception is now caught. This can be used by functions that do things like check to see if a user is logged in. If the user isn't, they can output a message with a login box and raise StopIteration, preventing the caller from executing.
• Fix some documentation bugs.
• Fix mysql regression (tx mrstone).

2006-02-12: 0.133

• Docstrings! (tx numerous, esp. Jonathan Mark (for the patch) and Guido van Rossum (for the prod))
• Add set to web.iters.
• Make the len returned by query an int (tx ??).
• Backwards-incompatible change: base now called prefixurl.
• Backwards-incompatible change: autoassign now takes self and locals() as arguments.

2006-02-07: 0.132

• New variable iters is now a listing of possible list-like types (currently list, tuple, and, if it exists, Set).
• New function dictreverse turns {1:2} into {2:1}.
• Storage now a dictionary subclass.
• tryall now takes an optional prefix of functions to run.
• sqlors has various improvements.
• Fix a bunch of DB API bugs.
• Fix bug with storify when it received multiple inputs (tx Ben Woosley).
• Fix bug with returning a generator (tx Zbynek Winkler).
• Fix bug where len returned a long on query results (tx F.S).

2006-01-31: 0.131 (not officially released)

• New function _interpolate used internally for interpolating strings.
• Redone database API. select, insert, update, and delete all made consistent. Database queries can now do more complicated expressions like $foo.bar and ${a+b}. You now have to explicitly pass the dictionary to look up variables in. Pass vars=locals() to get the old functionality of looking up variables .
• New functions sqllist and sqlors generate certain kinds of SQL.

2006-01-30: 0.13

• New functions found, seeother, and tempredirect now let you do other kinds of redirects. redirect now also takes an optional status parameter. (tx many)
• New functions expires and lastmodified make it easy to send those headers.
• New function gone returns a 410 Gone (tx David Terrell).
• New function urlquote applies url encoding to a string.
• New function iterbetter wraps an iterator and allows you to do __getitem__s on it.
• Have query return an iterbetter instead of an iterator.
• Have debugerror show tracebacks with the innermost frame first.
• Add __hash__ function to threadeddict (and thus, ctx).
• Add context.host value for the requested host name.
• Add option db_printing that prints database queries and the time they take.
• Add support for database pooling (tx Steve Huffman).
• Add support for passing values to functions called by handle. If you do ('foo', 'value') it will add 'value' as an argument when it calls foo.
• Add support for scgi (tx David Terrell for the patch).
• Add support for web.py functions that are iterators (tx Brendan O'Connor for the patch).
• Use new database cursors on each call instead of reusing one.
• setcookie now takes an optional domain argument.
• Fix bug in autoassign.
• Fix bug where debugerror would break on objects it couldn't display.
• Fix bug where you couldn't do #includes inline.
• Fix bug with reloader and database calls.
• Fix bug with reloader and base templates.
• Fix bug with CGI mode on certain operating systems.
• Fix bug where debug would crash if called outside a request.
• Fix bug with context.ip giving weird values with proxies.

2006-01-29: 0.129

• Add Python 2.2 support.

2006-01-28: 0.128

• Fix typo in web.profile.

2006-01-28: 0.127

• Fix bug in error message if invalid dbn is sent (tx Panos Laganakos).

2006-01-27: 0.126

• Fix typos in Content-Type headers (tx Beat Bolli for the prod).

2006-01-22: 0.125

• Support Cheetah 2.0.

2006-01-22: 0.124

• Fix spacing bug (tx Tommi Raivio for the prod).

2006-01-16: 0.123

• Fix bug with CGI usage (tx Eddie Sowden for the prod).

2006-01-14: 0.122

• Allow DELETEs from web.query (tx Joost Molenaar for the prod).

2006-01-08: 0.121

• Allow import of submodules like pkg.mod.cn (tx Sridhar Ratna).
• Fix a bug in update (tx Sergey Khenkin).

2006-01-05: 0.12

• Backwards-incompatible change: db_parameters is now a dictionary.
• Backwards-incompatible change: sumdicts is now dictadd.
• Add support for PyGreSQL, MySQL (tx Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson).
• Use HTML for non-Cheetah error message.
• New function htmlquote().
• New function tryall().
• ctx.output can now be set to a generator. (tx Brendan O'Connor)

2006-01-04: 0.117

• Add support for psycopg 1.x. (tx Gregory Price)

2006-01-04: 0.116

• Add support for Python 2.3. (tx Evan Jones)

2006-01-04: 0.115

• Fix some bugs where database queries weren't reparameterized. Oops!
• Fix a bug where run() wasn't getting the right functions.
• Remove a debug statement accidentally left in.
• Allow storify to be used on dictionaries. (tx Joseph Trent)

2006-01-04: 0.114

• Make reloader work on Windows. (tx manatlan)
• Fix some small typos that affected colorization. (tx Gregory Price)

2006-01-03: 0.113

• Reorganize run() internals so mod_python can be used. (tx Nicholas Matsakis)

2006-01-03: 0.112

• Make reloader work when code.py is called with a full path. (tx David Terrell)

2006-01-03: 0.111

• Fixed bug in strips(). (tx Michael Josephson)

2006-01-03: 0.11

• First public version.