django CMS 3.0 RC1 released!

Today we are releasing django CMS 3.0 release candidate 1.

What has changed since beta 3?

• we finally have custom user model support (special thanks to Tim Anderegg, Stefan Foulis and David Lee)
• added caching of CMS pages & placeholders, speeding up the whole cms significantly
• we added page types. Save any page as a page type and when you create a new page you may select a page type.
• removed the plugin DB-name magic with a compatibility layer for older plugins
• added ability to detect URL changes of currently-viewed objects so we can redirect if this object is edited via toolbar
• added a signal (urls_need_reloading) that fires when an apphook is added or changed.
• the page tree has seen a major overhaul (thanks to Angelo Dini)
• removed all plugins from core; they now live their independent lives as separate projects on GitHub
• completely rewrote the tutorial (thanks to Kim Thoenen)
• created a djangocms-installer app that should get you up and running quickly (thanks to Iacopo Spalletti)
• lots and lots of bugfixes (over 150 tickets since beta3)

What we now need from the community

Give the RC1 a testdrive:

Quick Upgrade Guide: http://docs.django-cms.org/en/develop/upgrade/3.0.html#upgrading-from-2-4

Full Upgrade Guide: http://docs.django-cms.org/en/develop/upgrade/3.0.html

Try out the new django CMS Installer (still beta):

djangocms-installer: https://github.com/nephila/djangocms-installer

$ pip install --upgrade virtualenv
$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
(env) $ pip install djangocms-installer
(env) $ djangocms -p . my_demo

Go through the new tutorial:

https://github.com/divio/django-cms-tutorial/

Have a look on transifex and make sure your language is translated completely:

https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/django-cms/

We translated over 20'000 strings last month.

django CMS 3.0 final

If we don't find any major bugs in the coming weeks, we will head towards the final release.