3.23 (24 June 2016)¶

New features¶

Python 3.x support in CubicWeb itself is now complete, except for the twisted package (since Twisted does not completely support Python 3.x itself). The skeleton for new cube should also be Python 3 compatible, in particular its setup.py got updated.
The source-sync command can now synchronize all sources in the database, if no <source> argument is provided.
Datafeed source synchronization is now asynchronous when requested from user interface.

Most indexes and constraints will be rebuilt during the migration, because they are now named after a md5 hash to control the name’s size.
Index are renamed upon renaming of an entity type, so they are still correctly tracked.
A new db-check-index command is added to cubicweb-ctl, to display the differences between the indexes in the database and those expected by the schema. It’s recommended to run this command after the migration to 3.23 and to adjust things manually for cases that are not easily handled by the migration script, such as indexes of entity types that have been renamed. It should be mostly about dropping extra indexes.

Deprecated MetaGenerator in favor of slightly adapted API in MetadataGenerator (more consistent, giving more control to sub-classes and suitable for usage with the MassiveObjectStore)
Major cleanups of the MassiveObjectStore and its PGHelper companion class:
- dropped a bunch of unnecessary / unused attributes
- refactored / renamed internal methods
- added support for a metadata generator, the now recommended way to control metadata generation
Deprecated SQLGenObjectStore, MassiveObjectStore should be used instead.

Generative tests à la logilab-common are not supported anymore in CubicWebTC. It is advised to use the subtests API (available on CubicWebTC either from the standard library as of Python 3.4 or through unittest2 package otherwise).
CubicWebTC‘s set_description method (comming from logilab.common.testlib.TestCase) is no longer available.