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django CMS v3.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2014-04-08 // over 11 years ago
    • 🔌 Plugins are only editable in frontend
    • 🔌 PluginEditor has been removed in backend
    • 🆕 New frontend editing
    • 🆕 New Toolbar
    • 🔌 Plugin API for creating new plugins and moving has changed
    • render_to_response replaced with TemplateResponse in cms.views
    • 🔍 CMS_SEO_FIELDS removed and seo fields better integrated
    • 🚚 meta_keywords field removed as not relevant anymore
    • CMS_MENU_TITLE_OVERWRITE default changed to True
    • Toolbar has language switcher built in
    • 👉 User settings module added for saving the language of the user so when he switches languages the toolbar/interface keeps the language.
    • language_chooser templatetag now only displays public languages, even when you are logged in as staff.
    • undo and redo functionality added in toolbar if django-reversion is installed.
    • page admin split in 3 different for basic, advanced and permissions
    • New show_editable_page_title templatetag to edit page title from the frontend
    • Removed PLACEHOLDER_FRONTEND_EDITING setting
    • Removed CMS_URL_OVERWRITE setting. Always enabled.
    • Removed CMS_MENU_TITLE_OVERWRITE settings. Always enabled.
    • ✂ Removed CMS_REDIRECTS. Always enabled.
    • ✂ Removed CMS_SOFTROOT. Always enabled.
    • 👉 Removed CMS_SHOW_START_DATE. Always enabled.
    • 👉 Removed CMS_SHOW_END_DATE. Always enabled.
    • ➕ Added (optional) language fallback for placeholders.
    • 🚚 moved apphooks from title to page model so we need to add them only once.
    • 🚚 request.current_app has been removed.
    • ➕ added a namespace field, reverse_id is not used anymore for apphook namespaces.
    • 🗄 PlaceholderAdmin is deprecated and available as mixin class renamed to PlaceholderAdminMixin.
    • 🔌 PlaceholderAdmin does not have LanguageTabs anymore. It only has a PluginAPI now.
    • 🔌 PageAdmin uses the same Plugin API as PlaceholderAdmin
    • Toolbar API for your own apps added
    • 🚚 twitter plugin removed
    • 🚚 file plugin removed
    • 🚚 flash plugin removed
    • 🚚 googlemap plugin removed
    • 🚚 inherit plugin removed
    • 🚚 picture plugin removed
    • 🚚 teaser plugin removed
    • 🚚 video plugin removed
    • 🔗 link plugin removed
    • 🚚 snippet plugin removed
    • 👍 Object level permission support for Placeholder
    • 🔧 Configuration for plugin custom modules and labels in the toolbar UI
    • ➕ Added copy-lang subcommand to copy content between languages
    • ➕ Added static_placeholder templatetag
    • Moved render_placeholder from placeholder_tags to cms_tags
    • 👍 django 1.6 support added
    • Frontedit editor for Django models
    • Extending the page & title model API
    • 🔧 Placeholders can be configured to have plugins automatically added.
    • ⚡️ Publishing is now language independent and the tree-view has been updated to reflect this
    • ✂ Removed the plugin DB-name magic and added a compatibility layer
    • urls_need_reloading signal added when an apphook change is detected.
    • CMS_PAGE_CACHE, CMS_PLACEHOLDER_CACHE and CMS_PLUGIN_CACHE settings and functionality added. Default is True
    • Detect admin object creation and changes via toolbar and redirect to them.
    • ➕ Added support for custom user models
    • ➕ Added PageTypes
    • Added CMS_MAX_PAGE_HISTORY_REVERSIONS and changed default of CMS_MAX_PAGE_PUBLISH_REVERSIONS
    • ➕ Added option to {% static_placeholder %} to render only on the current site.