/docs/releases/1.0.2.txt

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 2Django 1.0.2 release notes
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 5Welcome to Django 1.0.2!
 6
 7This is the second "bugfix" release in the Django 1.0 series,
 8improving the stability and performance of the Django 1.0 codebase. As
 9such, Django 1.0.2 contains no new features (and, pursuant to
10:doc:`our compatibility policy </misc/api-stability>`, maintains backwards compatibility with Django
111.0.0), but does contain a number of fixes and other
12improvements. Django 1.0.2 is a recommended upgrade for any
13development or deployment currently using or targeting Django 1.0.
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15
16Fixes and improvements in Django 1.0.2
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18
19The primary reason behind this release is to remedy an issue in the
20recently-released Django 1.0.1; the packaging scripts used for Django
211.0.1 omitted some directories from the final release package,
22including one directory required by ``django.contrib.gis`` and part of
23Django's unit-test suite.
24
25Django 1.0.2 contains updated packaging scripts, and the release
26package contains the directories omitted from Django 1.0.1. As such,
27this release contains all of the fixes and improvements from Django
281.0.1; see :doc:`the Django 1.0.1 release notes </releases/1.0.1>` for
29details.
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31Additionally, in the period since Django 1.0.1 was released:
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33* Updated Hebrew and Danish translations have been added.
34
35* The default ``__repr__`` method of Django models has been made more
36  robust in the face of bad Unicode data coming from the
37  ``__unicode__`` method; rather than raise an exception in such
38  cases, ``repr()`` will now contain the string "[Bad Unicode data]"
39  in place of the invalid Unicode.
40
41* A bug involving the interaction of Django's ``SafeUnicode`` class
42  and the MySQL adapter has been resolved; ``SafeUnicode`` instances
43  (generated, for example, by template rendering) can now be assigned
44  to model attributes and saved to MySQL without requiring an explicit
45  intermediate cast to ``unicode``.
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47* A bug affecting filtering on a nullable ``DateField`` in SQLite has
48  been resolved.
49
50* Several updates and improvements have been made to Django's
51  documentation.