Django-machina 0.4 release notes (2016-11-05)¶

Requirements and compatibility¶

Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5. Django 1.8, 1.9 and 1.10.

Add a way to disable signature when posting a message
Add a way to lock a topic when posting a new message (only if the user has the permission to do so)
Add a MACHINA_MARKUP_WIDGET_KWARGS setting to configure the keyword arguments that will be used when instanciating the widgets associated with the MACHINA_MARKUP_WIDGET setting
Add a MACHINA_BASE_TEMPLATE_NAME setting to configure the name of the base template that is extended by the django-machina’s main board_base.html template

The django-markdown editor has been replaced by a built-in widget using the SimpleMDE Markdown editor. If you were using the django-machina’s default settings you will have to remove django_markdown from your INSTALLED_APPS

Fix: prevent users from editting their posts when the related topic is locked
Fix: prevent users from submitting polls without required fields
Display the filesize of attachments
Improve layout for locked topics
Improve performances by adding first post / last post foreign keys to the Topic model
Separate the forum specific CSS styles from the “vendor” styles (bootstrap, etc) in order to ease customization
Improve forum index layout (#30)
Fix Topic.slug maximum length for MariaDB databases (#32)