On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Massimo Di Pierro
<massimo....@gmail.com> wrote:

Should be 100% backward compatible. If you run into any issue let us know ASAP.

Congratulations to all!

Should be 100% backward compatible. If you run into any issue let us know ASAP.

It's not a backward compatibility issue but after updating from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 the admin's flash messages no longer show up.

Kind regards,

Annet

On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:41:34 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:

After 5 months. It is done. This is the most waited and the most feature-packed release.

I am sure we'll find some corners that need to be ironed but it is considerably better than 1.99.7. It adds lot of new features and improves many existing ones:

- 57,000 new lines of code and closed 279 issues since 1.99.7.

- Retrieving data from DB should be faster, in particular select(cacheable=True)

- Has a new scheduler, a built-in wiki, new language and pluralization system, better markmin with oembed support and better scaffolding app, increased security.

- Lots of experimental features including GIS support, mongodb support, built-in auth.wiki(), and more.

Should be 100% backward compatible. If you run into any issue let us know ASAP.

I personally want to thank the major contributors to this release (in alphabetic order)

Alan, Andrew, Anthony, Bruno, Christian, Dave, Dominic, Iceberg, Jonathan, Marc, Mariano, Marin, Martin, Mark, Michael, Michele, Niphlod, Patrick, Vladyslav, 

They spend many nights testing, coding, debugging at a very fast pace.

Many many people have contributed.

If your contribution has not been properly acknowledged please let us know ASAP. It is probably an oversight.

Massimo

Detailed changelog

===============

## 2.00.2

### DAL Improvements

- Support for DAL(lazy_tables=True) and db.define_table(on_define=lambda table:), thanks Jonathan

- db(...).select(cacheable=True) make select 30% faster

- db(...).select(cache=(cache.ram,3600)) now caches parsed data 100x faster

- db(...).count(cache=(cache.ram,3600)) now supported

- MongoDB support in DAL (experimental), thanks Mark Breedveld

- geodal and spatialite, thanks Denes and Fran (experimental)

- db.mytable._before_insert, _after_insert, _before_update, _after_update, _before_delete. _after_delete (list of callbacks)

- db(...).update_naive(...) same as update but ignores table._before_update and table._after_update

- DAL BIGINT support and DAL(...,bigint_id=True)

- IS_IN_DB(..., distinct=True)

- new syntax: db.mytable.insert(myuploadfield=open(....)), thank you Iceberg

- db(...).select(db.mytable.myfield.count(distinct=True))

- db(db.a)._update(name=db(db.b.a==db.a.id).nested_select(db.b.id))

- db.mytable.myfield.filter_in, filter_out

- db.mytable._enable_record_versioning(db) adds versioning to this table

- teradata adapter, thanks Andrew Willimott

- experimental Sybase Adapter

- added db.table.field.avg()

- Support for Google App Engine projections, thanks Christian

- Field(... 'upload', default=path) now accepts a path to a local file as default value, if user does not upload a file. Relative path looks inside current application folder, thanks Marin

- executesql(...,fields=,columns=) allows parsing of results in Rows, thanks Anthony

### Auth improvements

- auth.enable_record_versioning(db)  adds full versioning to all tables

- @auth.requires_login(otherwise=URL(...))

- auth supports salt and compatible with third party data, thanks Dave Stoll

- CRYPT now defaults to pbkdf2(1000,20,sha1)

- Built-in wiki with menu, tags, search, media, permissions. def index: return auth.wiki()

- auth.settings.everybody_group_id

- allow storage of uploads on any PyFileSystem (including amazon)

### Form improvements

- FORM.confirm('Are you sure?',{'Back':URL(...)})

- SQLFORM.smartdictform(dict)

- form.add_button(value,link)

- SQLFORM.grid(groupby='...')

- fixed security issue with SQLFORM.grid and SQLFORM.smartgrid

- more export options in SQLFORM.grid and SQLFORM.smartgrid (html, xml, csv, ...)

### Admin improvements

- new admin pages: manage_students, bulk_regsiter, and progress reports

- increased security in admin against CSRF

- experimental Git integration

- experimental OpenShift deployment

- multi-language pluralization engine 

- ace text web editor in admin

- Ukrainian translations, thanks Vladyslav Kozlovskyy

- Romanian translation for welcome, thanks ionel

- support for mercurial 2.6, thanks Vlad

### Scheduler Improvements (thanks to niphlod, ykessler, dhx, toomim)

- web2py.py -K myapp -X starts the myapp scheduler alongside the webserver

- tasks are marked EXPIRED (if stop_time passed)

- functions with no result don't end up in scheduler_run

- more options: web2py.py -E -b -L

- scheduler can now handle 10k tasks with 20 concurrent workers and with no issues

- new params:

    tasks can be found in the environment (no need to define the tasks parameter)

    max_empty_runs kills the workers automatically if no new tasks are found in queue (nice for "spikes" of processing power)

    discard_results to completely discard the results (if you don't need the output of the task)

    utc_time enables datetime calculations with UTC time

- scheduler_task changes:

    task_name is no longer required (filled automatically with function_name if found empty)

    uuid makes easy to coordinate scheduler_task maintenance (filled automatically if not provided)

    stop_time has no default (previously was today+1)

    retry_failed to requeue automatically failed tasks

    sync_output refreshes automatically the output (nice to report percentages)

- workers can be:

    DISABLED (put to sleep and do nothing if not sending the heartbeat every 30 seconds)

    TERMINATE (complete the current task and then die)

    KILL (kill ASAP)

### Other Improvements 

- gluon/contrib/webclient.py makes it easy to create functional tests for app

- DIV(..).elements(...replace=...), thanks Anthony

- new layout based on Twitter Bootstrap

- New generic views: generic.ics (Mac Mail Calendar) and generic.map (Google Maps)

- request.args(0,default=0, cast=int, otherwise=URL(...)), thanks Anthony

- redirect(...,type='auto') will be handled properly in ajax responses

- routes in can redirect outside with routes_in=[('/path','303->http://..')]

- better memcache support

- improved spreadsheet, thanks Alan

- new internationalization engine, thanks Vladyslav

- pluralization engine, thanks Vladyslav

- new markmin with support for nested lists, <i>, <em>, autolinks, thanks Vladyslav

- new syntax: {{=BR()*5}}

- gluon.cache.lazy_cache decorator allows caching functions in modules

- .coffee and .less support in response.files, thanks Sam Sheftel

- ldap certificate support

- pg8000 postgresql driver support (experimental)

- @cache('%(name)s%(args)s%(vars)s',5) and cache.autokey

- added tox.ini, thanks Marc

- web2py.py --run_system_tests, thanks Marc Abramowitz

- html.py (and web2py helpers) can be used without web2py dependencies

- new fpdf, thanks Mariano

Please can you post a concrete example?

Hi Team, 

Thanks a ton for the new features and improvements!

I'm just getting started and was trying to run web2py.exe on Windows 7 after downloading it from http://www.web2py.com/examples/static/web2py_win.zip (2.0.2 stable).

However, ran into this error:

****************************** 

D:\web2py>web2py -S welcome

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "web2py.py", line 16, in <module>

  File "gluon/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>

  File "gluon/globals.py", line 24, in <module>

  File "gluon/serializers.py", line 11, in <module>

  File "gluon/languages.py", line 264, in <module>

  File "gluon/languages.py", line 250, in read_possible_plurals

WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'D:\\web2py\\gluon\\contrib\\rules/*.*'

******************************

Then, realized there was no folder called "gluon" in the extracted folder. I downloaded the source from http://www.web2py.com/examples/static/web2py_src.zip and copied the "gluon" folder from this source code to the previous web2py folder.

This solved the error and was able to web2py GUI. Hope this helps.

Regards,

Sridhar

On Friday, August 31, 2012 7:44:31 AM UTC-4, viniciusban wrote:

First of all, I'd like to thank you all. You're making a great job, guys.
I see web2py becoming more reliable to bigger projects and I'm very
pleased with it.
You all rock! :-)

In spite of this huge effort, isn't it premature to call 2.0.2 or even
2.0.3 stable? I know there were several months of hard work, but if we
have bugs detected so fast, we cannot call it stable yet, right?

Maybe some release candidate call or a pre-release period for tests,
before spreading it as stable would help us.

> Web2py has so much features and it is impossible to test everything.

On 08/31/2012 09:01 AM, Marin Pranjić wrote:
> It is called stable since no one using trunk/nightly build detected
> those errors.
>
> I agree with you, but you cannot blame anyone.
>
>

> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:44 PM, vinic...@gmail.com

>              - db(...).select(cacheable=True) make select 30% faster

>              - MongoDB support in DAL (experimental), thanks Mark Breedveld
>              - geodal and spatialite, thanks Denes and Fran (experimental)
>              - db.mytable._before_insert, _after_insert, _before_update,
>              _after_update, _before_delete. _after_delete (list of
>         callbacks)
>              - db(...).update_naive(...) same as update but ignores
>              table._before_update and table._after_update
>              - DAL BIGINT support and DAL(...,bigint_id=True)
>              - IS_IN_DB(..., distinct=True)
>              - new syntax:

>         <http://db.b.id>))
>              - db.mytable.myfield.filter_in, filter_out

>         versioning to this table
>              - teradata adapter, thanks Andrew Willimott
>              - experimental Sybase Adapter
>              - added db.table.field.avg()
>              - Support for Google App Engine projections, thanks Christian
>              - Field(... 'upload', default=path) now accepts a path to a
>         local
>              file as default value, if user does not upload a file.
>         Relative path
>              looks inside current application folder, thanks Marin

>         results in
>              Rows, thanks Anthony
>
>              ### Auth improvements
>

>              - auth supports salt and compatible with third party data,
>         thanks
>              Dave Stoll
>              - CRYPT now defaults to pbkdf2(1000,20,sha1)
>              - Built-in wiki with menu, tags, search, media,
>         permissions. def
>              index: return auth.wiki()

>              - new layout based on Twitter Bootstrap
>              - New generic views: generic.ics (Mac Mail Calendar) and
>         generic.map
>              (Google Maps)
>              - request.args(0,default=0, cast=int, otherwise=URL(...)),
>         thanks
>              Anthony
>              - redirect(...,type='auto') will be handled properly in
>         ajax responses
>              - routes in can redirect outside with

>              - better memcache support
>              - improved spreadsheet, thanks Alan
>              - new internationalization engine, thanks Vladyslav
>              - pluralization engine, thanks Vladyslav
>              - new markmin with support for nested lists, <i>, <em>,
>         autolinks,
>              thanks Vladyslav
>              - new syntax: {{=BR()*5}}
>              - gluon.cache.lazy_cache decorator allows caching functions
>         in modules
>              - .coffee and .less support in response.files, thanks Sam
>         Sheftel
>              - ldap certificate support
>              - pg8000 postgresql driver support (experimental)

>              - added tox.ini, thanks Marc
>              - web2py.py --run_system_tests, thanks Marc Abramowitz
>              - html.py (and web2py helpers) can be used without web2py
>         dependencies
>              - new fpdf, thanks Mariano
>
>         --
>
>
>
>
>     --
>
>
>
>

> Web2py has so much features and it is impossible to test everything.

Sorry, but I cannot agree with this statement. Is it the official position?

"Stable" means: "you can download and just use it". Anything different
is "almost stable" or "buggy yet" or, using beautiful words, "release
candidate" or "pre-release version".

but I think it could be very good to have a beta testing a week before stable.

On 08/31/2012 11:07 AM, Richard Vézina wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I love web2py and normally I just wait a bit when there is new version
> to make sure I don't spend to much time on version issue.
>
> I also test de trunk once in a wild, but I found difficult to proceed
> that way. 1) I don't have much time, 2) there is often little issue that
> will be gone in a release that are actually artifact of development I
> think. I mean, the developer know that there is most probably something
> wrong with the new code he produce, but just can't test it in all situation.
>
> For sure, tag a beta testing version before releasing could make more
> work and struggle with version control to make sure patch spread over
> all branch (trunk, beta), but I think it could be very good to have a
> beta testing a week before stable.
>
> Anyway, I don't have to much problem with the actual practices, but I
> think beta test could had avoid 1.99.5 for example, since this version
> has be the beta test version and 1.99.7 the final.
>
> Richard
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com

> <mailto:abas...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         > Web2py has so much features and it is impossible to test everything.
>
>         Sorry, but I cannot agree with this statement. Is it the
>         official position?
>
>
>     Well, we can probably improve the unit test coverage. And there's
>     been recent talk of developing a test application to check against
>     for some functional testing. But as with any software (particularly
>     as complex as a web framework), it's not possible to test every
>     conceivable permutation of functionality a user might implement. We
>     have to rely on reports of bugs found in the wild to some extent.
>
>         "Stable" means: "you can download and just use it". Anything
>         different
>         is "almost stable" or "buggy yet" or, using beautiful words,
>         "release
>         candidate" or "pre-release version".
>
>
>     We had two (officially labeled) release candidates
>     (http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/detail?r=ed41a29eb7c2e283587c141d0464b6c9be68eb0d).
>     Maybe we should change the "Nightly Build" label on the downloads
>     page to "Release Candidate", and perhaps advertise a bit more. Not
>     sure it will help, though, as there were already many requests for
>     testers. What do you suggest?
>
>     Anthony
>
>     --
>
>
>
>

On 09/01/2012 05:18 PM, Richard Vézina wrote:
> Confirm backward compatibility.
>
> I just migrate from 1.99.4 to 2.0.5
>
> Notice, that I change :
>
> controllers/appadmin.py
> static/css/*
> static/js/*
> static/images/*
> views/*generic.*
> views/web2py_ajax.html
>
> With the files form welcome app, provided within web2py.
>
> Thanks Massimo and all developers for this promising new web2py version!!
>
> Richard
>
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Massimo Di Pierro

> <massimo....@gmail.com <mailto:massimo....@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I agree. we kind of have a referral program (experts4solutions.com

>     businesses. We need to create more structure. There are definitively
>     business opportunities.
>
>
>     On Saturday, 1 September 2012 08:32:55 UTC-5, apps in tables wrote:
>
>         So, How to do business with web2py?
>
>         How to find a customer ( needs web app )?
>
>         How to find a technical support ?
>
>         I think the business side of web2py needs to be wraped up in a
>         video by massimo...
>
>
>         On Saturday, September 1, 2012 4:26:56 PM UTC+3, apps in tables
>         wrote:
>
>             Most of the users will donate, specially the ones who do
>             business with web2py.
>
>             On Saturday, September 1, 2012 3:30:12 PM UTC+3, Massimo Di
>             Pierro wrote:
>
>                 No you do not win anything. It means make a gift to
>                 web2py. It is the usual donation box.
>
>                 On Saturday, 1 September 2012 00:38:29 UTC-5, apps in
>                 tables wrote:
>
>                     make a gift to win 10,000 ???
>

{{if response.flash:}}
<header>
    {{if 'errors' in response.flash:}}
    <div class="alert alert-block alert-error fade in">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">
            &times;
        </button>
        <p>
            {{=response.flash}}
        </p>
    </div>
    {{else:}}
    <div class="alert alert-block fade in">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">
            &times;
        </button>
        <p>
            {{=response.flash}}
        </p>
    </div>
    {{pass}}
</header>
{{pass}}

Also will need to add in proper success ones as well. I'll get to it within a week then send a pull request