edan_f0/docs/source/releases/v1.5.rst

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Oscar 1.5 release notes
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:release: 2017-08-10

Welcome to Oscar 1.5


Table of contents:

.. contents::
    :local:
    :depth: 1


.. _compatibility_of_1.5:

Compatibility
-------------

Oscar 1.5 is compatible with Django 1.8, 1.10 and 1.11 as well as Python 2.7,
3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6. Support for Django 1.9 is no longer officially supported
since it is longer supported by Django (end of life).


.. _new_in_1.5:

What's new in Oscar 1.5?
------------------------
 - Support for Django 1.11 (:issue:`2221`)
 - Google Analytics tracking code has been migrated to Universal Analytics.
 - Passwords are validated using the validators defined in
   ``AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS`` for Django 1.9 and above.
 - The custom PhoneNumberField implementation has been replaced with the
   `django-phonenumber-field`_ package (:issue:`2227`)

.. _django-phonenumber-field: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-phonenumber-field/

Removal of deprecated features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

These methods/modules have been removed:

 - Profiling middleware. See `silk`_ or `django-cprofile-middleware`_
   for alternatives.
 - ``Product.min_child_price_incl_tax`` and ``Product.min_child_price_excl_tax``.
 - ``oscar.core.logging.handlers.EnvFileHandler()``
 - The ``ellipses_page_range`` templatetag. See `django-rangepaginator`_ for an
   alternative.
 - ``oscar.test.decorators`` module.
 - ``oscar.core.utils.compose`` function.
 - ``oscar.apps.customer.auth_backends.Emailbackend``. Use
   ``oscar.apps.customer.auth_backends.EmailBackend`` instead.
 - ``oscar.apps.catalogue.search_handlers.ProductSearchHandler``. Use
 - ``oscar.apps.catalogue.search_handlers.SolrProductSearchHandler`` instead.


.. _silk: https://github.com/django-silk/silk
.. _django-cprofile-middleware: https://github.com/omarish/django-cprofile-middleware
.. _django-rangepaginator: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-rangepaginator/


Minor changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 - Added billing address to user's address book during checkout (:issue:`1532`).
   Number of usages for billing and shipping addresses tracked separately:
   billing address in ``UserAddress.num_orders_as_billing_address`` field and
   shipping address in ``UserAddress.num_order_as_shipping_address``
   accordingly.

 - Fixed logic for determining "hurry mode" on stock alerts. Hurry mode is now
   set if the number of alerts for a product exceeds the quantity in stock,
   rather than the other way around.

 - Updated search to use the haystack CharField instead of the EdgeNgramField
   to fix irrelevant results (:issue:`2128`)

 - Updated ``customer.utils.Dispatcher`` to improve the ability to customise
   the implementation (:issue:`2303`)

 - Fixed logic for determining "hurry mode" on stock alerts. Hurry mode is now
   set if the number of alerts for a product exceeds the quantity in stock,
   rather than the other way around.

 - ``Voucher.date_created`` and ``VoucherApplication.date_created`` model
   fields changed from ``DateField`` to ``DateTimeField``. If you use SQLite
   database, please make sure to backup data before running migrations, since
   due to limited support of column altering, Django re-creates new SQLite
   database with new columns and copies into it original data -
   https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/migrations/#sqlite

 - Allowed the communication event dispatcher to accept an optional
   ``mail_connection`` to use when sending email messages.

 - Changed product alerts to be sent using the Communication Event framework.
   The old email templates will continue to be supported until Oscar 2.0.

.. _incompatible_in_1.5:

Backwards incompatible changes in Oscar 1.5
-------------------------------------------

 - Product reviews are now deleted if the associated product is deleted.

 - Formset classes moved to the separate modules, if you import them directly -
   please update location or use :meth:`oscar.core.loading.get_classes` for
   loading classes (:issue:`1957`).

   Next classes have new locations:

  - ``BaseBasketLineFormSet``, ``BasketLineFormSet``, ``BaseSavedLineFormSet``,
    ``SavedLineFormSet`` moved to
    ``oscar.apps.basket.formsets`` module;
  - ``BaseStockRecordFormSet``, ``StockRecordFormSet``,
    ``BaseProductCategoryFormSet``, ``ProductCategoryFormSet``,
    ``BaseProductImageFormSet``, ``ProductImageFormSet``,
    ``BaseProductRecommendationFormSet``, ``ProductRecommendationFormSet``,
    ``ProductAttributesFormSet`` moved to
    ``oscar.apps.dashboard.catalogue.formsets``;
  - ``OrderedProductFormSet`` moved to
    ``oscar.apps.dashboard.promotions.formsets``; - ``LineFormset`` moved to
    ``oscar.apps.wishlists.formsets``.

 - ``SimpleAddToBasketForm`` doesn't override the quantity field any
   more. Instead, it just hides the field declared by AddToBasketForm
   and sets the quantity to one. This means ``SimpleAddToBasketForm``
   doesn't need to be overridden for most cases, but please check
   things still work as expected for you if you have customised it.

 - ``OSCAR_CURRENCY_FORMAT`` setting changed to dictionary form in order to
   support multi-currency for currency formatting. You can set `format`,
   `format_type` and `currency_digits` in it.  Please refer to documentation
   for an example.

 - Dashboard order list doesn't have shortcut filters any more, pass `status`
   parameter instead of `order_status` for the relevant filtering.

 - ``GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID`` and ``USE_LESS`` settings were renamed into
   ``OSCAR_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID`` and ``OSCAR_USE_LESS`` respectively in order
   to keep all Oscar settings under common namespace.

 - Removed ``display_version`` and ``version`` variables from templates and
   template context.

 - Offer ``Applicator`` is now loaded from the ``offer.applicator`` module,
   instead of ``offer.utils``. Old path is deprecated and won't be supported
   in the next Oscar versions.

 - ``oscar.forms.fields.ExtendedURLField`` no longer accepts a ``verify_exists``
   argument.

Dependency changes
------------------

The following packages are updated:

    - `django>=1.8.8,<1.12`
    - `django-phonenumber-field>=1.0.0,<2.0.0`
    - `django-haystack>=2.5.0,<2.7.0`