Today we released Morepath 0.14
(CHANGES).
What is Morepath? Morepath is a Python web framework that is powerful
and flexible due to its advanced configuration engine
(Dectate) and an advanced dispatch
system (Reg), but at the same time is easy
to learn. It's also extensively documented!
The part of this release that I'm the most excited about is not
technical but has to do with the community, which is growing -- this
release contains significant work by several others than myself. Thanks
Stefano Taschini, Denis Krienbühl and Henri Hulski!
New for the community as well is that we have a web-based and
mobile-supported chat channel for Morepath. You can join
us with a click.
Please join and hang out!
Major new features of this release:
- Documented extension
API
- New implementation
overview.
- A new document describing how to
test your
Morepath-based code.
- Documented how to create a command-line query
tool for
Morepath configuration.
- New cookiecutter
template to
quickly create a Morepath-based project.
- New releases of various extensions compatible with 0.14. Did you know that
Morepath has more.jwtauth,
more.basicauth and
more.itsdangerous extensions
for authentication policy,
more.static and
more.webassets for static
resources, more.chameleon and
more.jinja2 for server templating
languages, more.transaction to
support SQLAlchemy and ZODB transactions and
more.forwarded to support the
Forwarded HTTP header?
- Configuration of Morepath-based applications is now simpler and more
explicit; we have a new
commit method on application classes and
applications get automatically committed during runtime if you don't
do it first.
- Morepath now performs host header validation to guard against header
poisoning attacks.
- New
defer_class_links
directive. This helps in a complicated app that is composed of
multiple smaller applications that want to link to each other using
the
request.class_link method introduced in Morepath 0.13.
- We've refactored both the publishing/view system and the link
generation system. It's cleaner now under the hood.
- Introduced an official deprecation
policy
as we prepare for Morepath 1.0, along with upgrade
instructions.
Interested? Feedback? Let us
know!
