Release

Finally, after a year of development and over 3000 commits since version 2.4.3, we are releasing the best django CMS ever.

Today we are releasing django CMS 3.0 final.

Props go out to all the 390 people that helped bring django CMS this far.

What are the highlights of 3.0?

complete overhaul of the frontend editing, making it possible to edit the whole page without recourse to the backend

a new, customisable, toolbar that your apps or plugins can access to enable even more functionality

undo and redo functionality for all pages

publishing is now language independent

copying and pasting of plugins or whole placeholders is now available

save any page as reusable page type with pre-filled plugins and content

speed improvements

new editing modes: content mode (editing content of plugins) and structure mode (for managing the plugin tree structure)

full support of plugins within plugins with drag & drop

use placeholders in any template with static_placeholders

customise the page model with page extensions

frontend editing of your own models, the same way you edit plugins

all plugins have been removed from core; they live now their seperate lives on GitHub

switched from wymeditor/tinymce to ckeditor for our default text editor

a new django admin theme called djangocms-admin-style

an installer to get you up and running in minutes

a new tutorial

django 1.6 and custom user models support

Give 3.0 a testdrive:

Quick Upgrade Guide: http://docs.django-cms.org/en/develop/upgrade/3.0.html#upgrading-from-2-4

Full Upgrade Guide: http://docs.django-cms.org/en/develop/upgrade/3.0.html

Try out the new django CMS Installer (still beta):

djangocms-installer: https://github.com/nephila/djangocms-installer

$ pip install --upgrade virtualenv $ virtualenv env $ source env/bin/activate (env) $ pip install djangocms-installer (env) $ djangocms -p . my_demo

Go through the new tutorial:

https://github.com/divio/django-cms-tutorial/

Check Transifex to make sure your language is fully translated:

https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/django-cms/

Here is the full CHANGELOG:

plugins are only editable in frontend

PluginEditor has been removed in backend

new frontend editing

new Toolbar

plugin API for creating new plugins and moving has changed

render_to_response replaced with TemplateResponse in cms.views

CMS_SEO_FIELDS removed and seo fields better integrated

meta_keywords field removed as not relevant anymore

CMS_MENU_TITLE_OVERWRITE default changed to True

Toolbar has language switcher built in

user settings module added for saving the user's language; after switching languages the toolbar/interface retain's the user's preferred language

language_chooser templatetag now only displays public languages, even when you are logged in as staff

undo and redo functionality added in toolbar if django-reversion is installed

page admin split in to 3 different for basic, advanced and permissions

new show_editable_page_title templatetag to edit page title from the frontend

removed PLACEHOLDER_FRONTEND_EDITING setting

removed CMS_URL_OVERWRITE setting; always enabled

removed CMS_MENU_TITLE_OVERWRITE settings; always enabled

removed CMS_REDIRECTS; always enabled

removed CMS_SOFTROOT; always enabled

removed CMS_SHOW_START_DATE; always enabled

removed CMS_SHOW_END_DATE; always enabled

added (optional) language fallback for placeholders

moved apphooks from title to page model so we need to add them only once

request.current_app has been removed

added a namespace field, reverse_id is not used anymore for apphook namespaces

PlaceholderAdmin is deprecated and available as mixin class renamed to PlaceholderAdminMixin

PlaceholderAdmin does not have LanguageTabs anymore; it only has a PluginAPI now.

PageAdmin uses the same Plugin API as PlaceholderAdmin

Toolbar API for your own apps added

Twitter plugin removed

file plugin removed

flash plugin removed

googlemap plugin removed

inherit plugin removed

picture plugin removed

teaser plugin removed

video plugin removed

link plugin removed

snippet plugin removed

object level permission support for Placeholder

configuration for plugin custom modules and labels in the toolbar UI

added copy-lang subcommand to copy content between languages

added static_placeholder templatetag

moved render_placeholder from placeholder_tags to cms_tags

django 1.6 support added

frontend editor for Django models

extended the page & title model API

placeholders can be configured to have plugins automatically added

publishing is now language independent and the tree-view has been updated to reflect this

removed the plugin DB-name magic and added a compatibility layer - urls_need_reloading signal added when an apphook change is detected

CMS_PAGE_CACHE, CMS_PLACEHOLDER_CACHE and CMS_PLUGIN_CACHE settings and functionality added; default is True

detect admin object creation and changes via toolbar and redirect to them

added support for custom user models

added PageTypes

added CMS_MAX_PAGE_HISTORY_REVERSIONS and changed default of CMS_MAX_PAGE_PUBLISH_REVERSIONS

added option to {% static_placeholder %} to render only on the current site

New release cycle

For the 3.0.x releases we will try to have a monthly release cycle.

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