2.0 Release Final Comment Period

[Jake Urban]

Hello Polaris Devs,

Polaris 2.0's Final Comment Period

Polaris 2.0 will be released on Monday, August 23rd. Until then, the changes to be included are open for comments and concerns. Discussion should be facilitated on the pull request to merge the 2.0 branch.

It contains many breaking changes that will require anchors to update their implementations, and lays the groundwork necessary to improve Polaris in the future.

Polaris 1.6 Maintenance Phase

The last minor version of Polaris 1.x to be released will be 1.6, and will continue to receive bug fixes and security updates, but will not receive new features.

Polaris 2.0 Tentative Changelog

Dependencies

• Upgraded django to 3.2
• Upgraded stellar-sdk to 4.1
• Upgraded pyjwt to 2.1
• Removed psycopg2-binary
• Require latest minor version of all other dependencies, accept later minor updates

Templates

• Updated all template block tags to use double quotes

Middleware

• Remove PolarisSameSiteMiddleware

Integrations

• Removed DepositIntegration.instructions_for_pending_deposit()
• Removed JavaScript integrations (TemplateScript, register_integrations(scripts=<>))
• Added the rest_framework.request.Request to all integration functions called within requests
• Added a new SEP10Token object to all integration functions called within requests authenticated via SEP-10
• Added *args and **kwargs parameters to all integration functions so adding future parameters is non-breaking