What’s New in TurboGears 1.1

Table of Contents

• What’s New in TurboGears 1.1
  • Changes
  • Features

Changes

• Uses Genshi as the default template engine (instead of kid).
• Uses SQLAlchemy as the default database access layer (instead of SQLObject).
• RuleDispatch completely replaced by PEAK-Rules.

Features

• Standard quickstart template with new design using Genshi templates.
• New testing framework based on WebTest.
• Quickstart can create a Elixir-based identity model fully compatible with the plain SQLAlchemy one.
• I18n support for Genshi templates.
• Full support for multiple database with SQLAlchemy.
• Comes packaged with up-to-date MochiKit library.
• Better integration of ToscaWidgets.
• Quickstarted projects provide a data bootstrap command line tool.
• Lots of improvements and bug-fixes to Widgets and validators.
• Many, many other fixes and small improvements. For a full list, please see the <no title>...

Note

Kid templates and SQLObject are still fully support in TurboGears 1.1, but we suggest new comers to use the recommended Genshi and SQLAlchemy combination instead.