Migrations#

From 0.8.0 to 0.8.1#

New migration

A new basic model migration has been added to add a modified field on some models, you just have to apply it on your project.

New feature Sitemap

This new feature is available but you will need to enable it, see install guide in documentation Sitemap Install.

From 0.7.0 to 0.8.0#

New feature Album

  • If you use a custom template for Article detail view you will need to update it to include the Album part;

  • If you copied the Sass sources frontend, you will need to update Bootstrap settings to enable the CSS Grid with $enable-cssgrid: true;;

  • A new setting LOTUS_ALBUM_TAG_TEMPLATE is required, see Settings documentation if you don’t import the default settings from Lotus;

New feature Canonical URL

  • You need to add django.contrib.sites.middleware.CurrentSiteMiddleware middleware to your settings.MIDDLEWARES;

  • A new template block {% block header-resource-extra %} has to be added in template skeleton since Lotus use in its templates;

  • If you use a custom lotus/base.html you will need to update it to include the new part which build the canonical URL;

CKEditor integration

In our sandbox settings we enabled the plugin image2 instead of default image plugin since it has a minor ergonomy improvement, you may include it also in your CKEditor configuration with the following two lines;

Admin improvements

New settings LOTUS_ADMIN_ARTICLE_ASSETS, LOTUS_ADMIN_CATEGORY_ASSETS and LOTUS_ADMIN_ALBUM_ASSETS are required, see Settings documentation if you don’t import the default settings from Lotus;

From 0.6.1 to 0.7.0#

Improved related article in Article detail view

If you were using a custom template for Article details and keeped the part for related article listing that was starting with {% with relateds=article_object.get_related %} you must change it to use the new template tag which apply the publication and language filtering.

See the current detail template to know what to copy. This is important since the old template only applied language filtering and totally ignore publication criterias;

New feature API

You may now enable the API with installing package extra requirement api and then follow install guide about API Install;

From 0.6.0 to 0.6.1#

Nothing to do, this is a minor maintenance release about documentation build on readthedocs.

From 0.5.2.1 to 0.6.0#

  • Upgrade django-autocomplete-light;

  • Use the new template block names if you override some of lotus list or details templates;

    • head_title to header-title;

    • head_metas to metas;

    • head_styles to header-resource;

    • javascript to body-javascript;

  • If you mounted Lotus on root url path and standing on removed articles/ path to not pollute root path, you need to mount Lotus on path like blog/ or even articles/;

  • If you used Lotus for a single language site, now you may be able to disable LocaleMiddleware;

  • Now you are able to edit Lotus crumb titles for index views, see settings documentation for LOTUS_CRUMBS_TITLES;