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Today we are releasing django CMS 3.0 final.

Props go out to all the 390 people that helped bring django CMS this far.

What are the highlights of 3.0?

• complete overhaul of the frontend editing, making it possible to edit the whole page without recourse to the backend
• a new, customisable, toolbar that your apps or plugins can access to enable even more functionality
• undo and redo functionality for all pages
• publishing is now language independent
• copying and pasting of plugins or whole placeholders is now available
• save any page as reusable page type with pre-filled plugins and content
• speed improvements
• new editing modes: content mode (editing content of plugins) and structure mode (for managing the plugin tree structure)
• full support of plugins within plugins with drag & drop
• use placeholders in any template with static_placeholders
• customise the page model with page extensions
• frontend editing of your own models, the same way you edit plugins
• all plugins have been removed from core; they live now their seperate lives on GitHub
• switched from wymeditor/tinymce to ckeditor for our default text editor
• a new django admin theme called djangocms-admin-style
• an installer to get you up and running in minutes
• a new tutorial 
• django 1.6 and custom user models support

Give 3.0 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/

Check Transifex to make sure your language is fully translated:

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

Here is the full CHANGELOG:

• plugins are only editable in frontend
• PluginEditor has been removed in backend
• new frontend editing
• new Toolbar
• plugin API for creating new plugins and moving has changed
• render_to_response replaced with TemplateResponse in cms.views
• CMS_SEO_FIELDS removed and seo fields better integrated
• meta_keywords field removed as not relevant anymore
• CMS_MENU_TITLE_OVERWRITE default changed to True
• Toolbar has language switcher built in
• user settings module added for saving the user's language; after switching languages the toolbar/interface retain's the user's preferred language
• language_chooser templatetag now only displays public languages, even when you are logged in as staff
• undo and redo functionality added in toolbar if django-reversion is installed
• page admin split in to 3 different for basic, advanced and permissions
• new show_editable_page_title templatetag to edit page title from the frontend
• removed PLACEHOLDER_FRONTEND_EDITING setting
• removed CMS_URL_OVERWRITE setting; always enabled
• removed CMS_MENU_TITLE_OVERWRITE settings; always enabled
• removed CMS_REDIRECTS; always enabled
• removed CMS_SOFTROOT; always enabled
• removed CMS_SHOW_START_DATE; always enabled
• removed CMS_SHOW_END_DATE; always enabled
• added (optional) language fallback for placeholders
• moved apphooks from title to page model so we need to add them only once
• request.current_app has been removed
• added a namespace field, reverse_id is not used anymore for apphook namespaces
• PlaceholderAdmin is deprecated and available as mixin class renamed to PlaceholderAdminMixin
• PlaceholderAdmin does not have LanguageTabs anymore; it only has a PluginAPI now.
• PageAdmin uses the same Plugin API as PlaceholderAdmin
• Toolbar API for your own apps added
• Twitter plugin removed
• file plugin removed
• flash plugin removed
• googlemap plugin removed
• inherit plugin removed
• picture plugin removed
• teaser plugin removed
• video plugin removed
• link plugin removed
• snippet plugin removed
• object level permission support for Placeholder
• configuration for plugin custom modules and labels in the toolbar UI
• added copy-lang subcommand to copy content between languages
• added static_placeholder templatetag
• moved render_placeholder from placeholder_tags to cms_tags
• django 1.6 support added
• frontend editor for Django models
• extended the page & title model API
• placeholders can be configured to have plugins automatically added
• publishing is now language independent and the tree-view has been updated to reflect this
• removed the plugin DB-name magic and added a compatibility layer - urls_need_reloading signal added when an apphook change is detected
• CMS_PAGE_CACHE, CMS_PLACEHOLDER_CACHE and CMS_PLUGIN_CACHE settings and functionality added; default is True
• detect admin object creation and changes via toolbar and redirect to them
• added support for custom user models
• added PageTypes
• added CMS_MAX_PAGE_HISTORY_REVERSIONS and changed default of CMS_MAX_PAGE_PUBLISH_REVERSIONS
• added option to {% static_placeholder %} to render only on the current site 

 

New release cycle

For the 3.0.x releases we will try to have a monthly release cycle.

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