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diff --git a/parts/django/docs/releases/1.2.4.txt b/parts/django/docs/releases/1.2.4.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5472a28..0000000 --- a/parts/django/docs/releases/1.2.4.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,52 +0,0 @@ -========================== -Django 1.2.4 release notes -========================== - -Welcome to Django 1.2.4! - -This is the fourth "bugfix" release in the Django 1.2 series, -improving the stability and performance of the Django 1.2 codebase. - -Django 1.2.4 maintains backwards compatibility with Django -1.2.3, but contain a number of fixes and other -improvements. Django 1.2.4 is a recommended upgrade for any -development or deployment currently using or targeting Django 1.2. - -For full details on the new features, backwards incompatibilities, and -deprecated features in the 1.2 branch, see the :doc:`/releases/1.2`. - -One new feature -=============== - -Ordinarily, a point release would not include new features, but in the -case of Django 1.2.4, we have made an exception to this rule. - -One of the bugs fixed in Django 1.2.4 involves a set of -circumstances whereby a running a test suite on a multiple database -configuration could cause the original source database (i.e., the -actual production database) to be dropped, causing catastrophic loss -of data. In order to provide a fix for this problem, it was necessary -to introduce a new setting -- :setting:`TEST_DEPENDENCIES` -- that -allows you to define any creation order dependencies in your database -configuration. - -Most users -- even users with multiple-database configurations -- need -not be concerned about the data loss bug, or the manual configuration of -:setting:`TEST_DEPENDENCIES`. See the `original problem report`_ -documentation on :ref:`controlling the creation order of test -databases <topics-testing-creation-dependencies>` for details. - -.. _original problem report: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/14415 - -GeoDjango -========= - -The function-based :setting:`TEST_RUNNER` previously used to execute -the GeoDjango test suite, :func:`django.contrib.gis.tests.run_gis_tests`, -was finally deprecated in favor of a class-based test runner, -:class:`django.contrib.gis.tests.GeoDjangoTestSuiteRunner`, added in this -release. - -In addition, the GeoDjango test suite is now included when -:ref:`running the Django test suite <running-unit-tests>` with ``runtests.py`` -and using :ref:`spatial database backends <spatial-backends>`. |