3.9.0 release notes

This release of django CMS (first community driven release) introduces support for Django 3.2, and bugfix. We tried to catch up with as many long waited feature/bugfix requests as possible.

What’s new in 3.9.0

Features:

  • Add support for Django 3.2 LTS version

  • Page changed_date added to the Page tree admin actions dropdown template #6701 (#7046) (73cbbdb00) – Vladimir Kuvandjiev

  • Allow recursive template extending in placeholders (#6564) (fed6fe54d) – Stefan Wehrmeyer

  • Added ability to set placeholder global limit on children only (#6847) (18e146495) – G3RB3N

  • Replaced Travis.CI with Github Actions (#7000) (0f33b5839) – Vinit Kumar

  • Added support for Github Actions based CI.

  • Added Support for testing frontend, docs, test and linting in different/parallel CI pipelines.

  • Added django-treebeard 4.5.1 support, previously pinned django-treebeard<4.5 to avoid breaking changes introduced

  • Improved performance of cms list plugins command

  • Page changed date added to the Page tree admin actions dropdown

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where the wrong page title was returned (#6466) (3a0c4d26e) – Alexandre Joly

  • Fixed #6413: migrations 0019 and 0020 on multi db setups (#6708) (826d57f0f) – Petr Glotov

  • Added fix to migrations to handle multi database routing (#6721) (98658a909) – Michael Anckaert

  • Fixed issue where default fallbacks is not used when it’s an empty list (#6795) (5d21fa5eb) – Arjan de Pooter

  • Fixed prefix_default_language = False redirect behavior (#6851) (34a26bd1b) – Radek Stępień

  • Fix not checking slug uniqueness on page move (#6958) (5976d393a) – Iacopo Spalletti

  • Fixed DontUsePageAttributeWarning message (#6734) (45383888e) – carmenkow

  • Fixed Cache not invalidated when using a PlaceholderField outside the CMS #6912 (#6956) (3ce63d7d3) – Benjamin PIERRE

  • Fixed unexpected behavior get_page_from_request (#6974) (#6073) (52f926e0d) – Yuriy Mamaev

  • Fixed django treebeard 4.5.1 compatibility (#6988) (eeb86fd70) – Aiky30

  • Fixed Bad Title.path in Multilanguage sites if parent slug is created or modified (#6968) (6e7b0ae48) – fp4code

  • Fixed redirect issues when i18n_patterns had prefix_default_language = False

  • Fixed not checking slug uniqueness when moving a page

  • Fixed builds on RTD

  • Fixed the cache not being invalidated when updating a PlaceholderField in a custom model

  • Fixed 66622 bad Title.path in multilingual sites when parent slug is created or modified

  • Fixed 6973 bag with unexpected behavior get_page_from_request

  • Fixed migrations with multiple databases

  • Fix styles issues, caused by switching to the display: flex on the page tree renderer.

  • Fixed missing builtin arguments on main cms management command causing it to crash

  • Fixed template label nested translation

  • Fixed a bug where the fallback page title whould be returned instead of the one from the current language

  • Fixed an issue when running migrations on a multi database project

How to upgrade to 3.9.0

We assume you are upgrading from django CMS 3.8.

Please make sure that your current database is consistent and in a healthy state, and make a copy of the database before proceeding further.

Check your settings of CMS_LANGUAGES (if used), as it was ignored by default in preceding versions. For more information, please see: https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/pull/6795

Then run:

  1. python manage.py migrate  # to ensure that your database is up-to-date with migrations
  2. python manage.py cms fix-tree

Check custom code and third-party applications for use of deprecated or removed functionality or APIs (see above). Some third-party components may need to be updated.

Install the new version of django CMS from GitHub or via pip.

Run:

  1. python manage.py migrate

to apply the new migrations.