Release | May 30, 2013

2.3.7 and 2.4.2 released

We just released 2 new versions of the cms...

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2.3.7

Is mostly a performance backport from 2.4 that should speed up page saves if you have CMS_PERMISSIONS enabled. Be sure to update django-sekizai.

Full change log:

  • Fixed a bug in the cache handling of plugins using django-sekizai  - Fixed a performance bug in the permission cache

2.4.2

Mostly a bugfix release.

The full change log:

  • Apphook edit mode bugfix

  • Added option to render_placeholder tag to set language

  • Huge permission cache invalidation speed up

  • Doc improvements

  • css cleanup in PlaceholderAdmin

  • Log change of page status done via AJAX

  • Use --noinput convention for delete_orphaned_plugins command

  • added Testing docs

  • fixed more issues with only one language

  • locales updated

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