On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote:
> Pyramid 1.4a3 has been released.  Here's what happened since the last
> release in the 1.4 series (1.4a2):

>   1.4a3 (2012-10-26)
>   ==================

>   Bug Fixes
>   ---------

>   - The match_param predicate's text method was fixed to sort its
>     values.  Part of https://github.com/Pylons/**pyramid/pull/705<https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/705>

>   - 1.4a ``pyramid.scripting.prepare`` behaved differently than 1.3
>     series function of same name.  In particular, if passed a request,
>     it would not set the ``registry`` attribute of the request like
>     1.3 did.  A symptom would be that passing a request to
>     ``pyramid.paster.bootstrap`` (which uses the function) that did
>     not have a ``registry`` attribute could assume that the registry
>     would be attached to the request by Pyramid.  This assumption
>     could be made in 1.3, but not in 1.4.  The assumption can now be
>     made in 1.4 too (a registry is attached to a request passed to
>     bootstrap or prepare).

>   - When registering a view configuration that named a Chameleon ZPT
>     renderer with a macro name in it
>     (e.g. ``renderer='some/template#some**macro.pt <http://somemacro.pt>``)
> as well as a view
>     configuration without a macro name it it that pointed to the same
>     template (e.g. ``renderer='some/template.pt'`**`), internal caching
>     could confuse the two, and your code might have rendered one
>     instead of the other.

>   Features
>   --------

>   - Allow multiple values to be specified to the ``request_param``
>     view/route predicate as a sequence.  Previously only a single
>     string value was allowed.  See
>     https://github.com/Pylons/**pyramid/pull/705<https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/705>

>   - Comments with references to documentation sections placed in
>     scaffold ``.ini`` files.

>   - Added an HTTP Basic authentication policy at
>     ``pyramid.authentication.**BasicAuthAuthenticationPolicy`**`.

>   - The Configurator ``testing_securitypolicy`` method now returns the
>     policy object it creates.

>   - The Configurator ``testing_securitypolicy`` method accepts two new
>     arguments: ``remember_result`` and ``forget_result``.  If
>     supplied, these values influence the result of the policy's
>     ``remember`` and ``forget`` methods, respectively.

>   - The DummySecurityPolicy created by ``testing_securitypolicy`` now
>     sets a ``forgotten`` value on the policy (the value ``True``) when
>     its ``forget`` method is called.

>   - The DummySecurityPolicy created by ``testing_securitypolicy`` now
>     sets a ``remembered`` value on the policy, which is the value of
>     the ``principal`` argument it's called with when its ``remember``
>     method is called.

>   - New ``physical_path`` view predicate.  If specified, this value
>     should be a string or a tuple representing the physical traversal
>     path of the context found via traversal for this predicate to
>     match as true.  For example: ``physical_path='/'`` or
>     ``physical_path='/a/b/c'`` or ``physical_path=('', 'a', 'b',
>     'c')``.  This is not a path prefix match or a regex, it's a
>     whole-path match.  It's useful when you want to always potentially
>     show a view when some object is traversed to, but you can't be
>     sure about what kind of object it will be, so you can't use the
>     ``context`` predicate.  The individual path elements inbetween
>     slash characters or in tuple elements should be the Unicode
>     representation of the name of the resource and should not be
>     encoded in any way.

> A detailed "What's New in Pyramid 1.4" document is available at

> <http://docs.pylonsproject.**org/projects/pyramid/en/**
> master/whatsnew-1.4.html<http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/master/whatsnew-1.4...>

> Pyramid 1.4a3 requires Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 or 3.3.

> The documentation for the release is available at
> http://docs.pylonsproject.org/**projects/pyramid/en/1.4-**branch/<http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/1.4-branch/>.

> You can install it via PyPI:

>   easy_install Pyramid==1.4a3

> Enjoy, and please report any issues you find to the issue tracker at
> https://github.com/Pylons/**pyramid/issues<https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/issues>

> Thanks!

> - C

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