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diff --git a/docs/whatsnew-1.5.rst b/docs/whatsnew-1.5.rst index 57f93cbff..23613896a 100644 --- a/docs/whatsnew-1.5.rst +++ b/docs/whatsnew-1.5.rst @@ -316,6 +316,48 @@ The feature additions in Pyramid 1.5 follow. - :func:`pyramid.path.package_name` no longer thows an exception when resolving the package name for namespace packages that have no ``__file__`` attribute. +- An authorization API has been added as a method of the request: + :meth:`pyramid.request.Request.has_permission`. It is a method-based + alternative to the :func:`pyramid.security.has_permission` API and works + exactly the same. The older API is now deprecated. + +- Property API attributes have been added to the request for easier access to + authentication data: :attr:`pyramid.request.Request.authenticated_userid`, + :attr:`pyramid.request.Request.unauthenticated_userid`, and + :attr:`pyramid.request.Request.effective_principals`. These are analogues, + respectively, of :func:`pyramid.security.authenticated_userid`, + :func:`pyramid.security.unauthenticated_userid`, and + :func:`pyramid.security.effective_principals`. They operate exactly the + same, except they are attributes of the request instead of functions + accepting a request. They are properties, so they cannot be assigned to. + The older function-based APIs are now deprecated. + +- Pyramid's console scripts (``pserve``, ``pviews``, etc) can now be run + directly, allowing custom arguments to be sent to the python interpreter + at runtime. For example:: + + python -3 -m pyramid.scripts.pserve development.ini + +- Added a specific subclass of :class:`pyramid.httpexceptions.HTTPBadRequest` + named :class:`pyramid.exceptions.BadCSRFToken` which will now be raised in + response to failures in the ``check_csrf_token`` view predicate. See + https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/1149 + +- Added a new ``SignedCookieSessionFactory`` which is very similar to the + ``UnencryptedCookieSessionFactoryConfig`` but with a clearer focus on + signing content. The custom serializer arguments to this function should + only focus on serializing, unlike its predecessor which required the + serializer to also perform signing. + See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/1142 + +- Added a new ``BaseCookieSessionFactory`` which acts as a generic cookie + factory that can be used by framework implementors to create their own + session implementations. It provides a reusable API which focuses strictly + on providing a dictionary-like object that properly handles renewals, + timeouts, and conformance with the ``ISession`` API. + See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/1142 + + Other Backwards Incompatibilities --------------------------------- @@ -404,6 +446,13 @@ Other Backwards Incompatibilities Pyramid narrative documentation instead of providing renderer globals values to the configurator. +- The key/values in the ``_query`` parameter of + :meth:`pyramid.request.Request.route_url` and the ``query`` parameter of + :meth:`pyramid.request.Request.resource_url` (and their variants), used to + encode a value of ``None`` as the string ``'None'``, leaving the resulting + query string to be ``a=b&key=None``. The value is now dropped in this + situation, leaving a query string of ``a=b&key=``. See + https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/issues/1119 Deprecations ------------ @@ -417,12 +466,36 @@ Deprecations a deprecation warning when used. It had been docs-deprecated in 1.4 but did not issue a deprecation warning when used. +- :func:`pyramid.security.has_permission` is now deprecated in favor of using + :meth:`pyramid.request.Request.has_permission`. + +- The :func:`pyramid.security.authenticated_userid`, + :func:`pyramid.security.unauthenticated_userid`, and + :func:`pyramid.security.effective_principals` functions have been + deprecated. Use :attr:`pyramid.request.Request.authenticated_userid`, + :attr:`pyramid.request.Request.unauthenticated_userid` and + :attr:`pyramid.request.Request.effective_principals` instead. + +- Deprecate the ``pyramid.interfaces.ITemplateRenderer`` interface. It was + ill-defined and became unused when Mako and Chameleon template bindings were + split into their own packages. + +- The ``pyramid.session.UnencryptedCookieSessionFactoryConfig`` API has been + deprecated and is superseded by the + ``pyramid.session.SignedCookieSessionFactory``. Note that while the cookies + generated by the ``UnencryptedCookieSessionFactoryConfig`` + are compatible with cookies generated by old releases, cookies generated by + the SignedCookieSessionFactory are not. See + https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/1142 + Documentation Enhancements -------------------------- - A new documentation chapter named :ref:`quick_tour` was added. It describes starting out with Pyramid from a high level. +- Added a :ref:`quick_tutorial` to go with the Quick Tour + - Many other enhancements. |