3.21 (10 July 2015)

New features

  • the datadir-url configuration option lets one choose where static data files are served (instead of the default ${base-url}/data/)

  • some integrity checking that was previously implemented in Python was moved to the SQL backend. This includes some constraints, and referential integrity. Some consequences are that:

    • disabling integrity hooks no longer disables those checks
    • upgrades that modify constraints will fail when running on sqlite (but upgrades aren’t supported on sqlite anyway)

    Note: as of 3.21.0, the upgrade script only works on PostgreSQL. The migration for SQLServer will be added in a future bugfix release.

  • for easier instance monitoring, cubicweb can regularly dump some statistics (basically those exposed by the ‘info’ and ‘gc’ views) in json format to a file

User-visible changes

  • the use of fckeditor for text form fields is disabled by default, to re-enable it simply install the cubicweb-ckeditor cube (then add_cude(‘ckeditor’) in a migration or in the shell)
  • the ‘https-deny-anonymous’ configuration setting no longer exists

Code movement

The cubicweb.web.views.timeline module (providing the timeline-json, timeline and static-timeline views) has moved to a standalone cube

API changes

  • req.set_cookie’s “expires” argument, if not None, is expected to be a date or a datetime in UTC. It was previously interpreted as localtime with the UTC offset the server started in, which was inconsistent (we are not aware of any users of that API).

  • the way to run tests on a postgresql backend has changed slightly, use cubicweb.devtools.{start,stop}pgcluster in setUpModule and tearDownModule

  • the Connection and ClientConnection objects introduced in CubicWeb 3.19 have been unified. To connect to a repository, use:

    session = repo.new_session(login, password=...)
    with session.new_cnx() as cnx:
        cnx.execute(...)
    

    In tests, the ‘repo_cnx’ and ‘client_cnx’ methods of RepoAccess are now aliases to ‘cnx’.

Deprecated code drops

  • the user_callback api has been removed; people should use plain ajax functions instead
  • the Pyro and Zmq-pickle remote repository access methods have been entirely removed (emerging alternatives such as rqlcontroller and cwclientlib should be used instead). Note that as a side effect, “repository-only” instances (i.e. without a http component) are no longer possible. If you have any such instances, you will need to rename the configuration file from repository.conf to all-in-one.conf and run cubicweb-ctl upgrade to update it. Likewise, remote cubicweb-ctl shell is no longer available.
  • the old (deprecated since 3.19) DBAPI api is completely removed
  • cubicweb.toolsutils.config_connect() has been removed