Blue Sky On Mars

TurboGears 0.8a1 is available now!

What’s New

This is a brief summary. The complete information about what’s
new can be found here: http://www.turbogears.org/about/changelog.html

* API improvements based on feedback and patches from the first public release. Seven people contributed patches to TurboGears directly, and there’s been quite a bit going on in the other projects.
* Easier production of XML output from controller methods
* Static file directories are set up in new quickstarted projects
* Updates to all of the main included projects
* IPython is used as the shell, if IPython is available
* Bonjour support on the Mac
* New getting started guide, and command line tool and configuration references and a new site template by Sebastian Jansson.
* Several bug fixes

After the slashdotting, Ian Landsman wondered what the extended effect of the slashdotting would be. Certainly, after serving more than 13,000 views of the screencast on Monday, things have tapered off. The 20 Minute Wiki is still getting 1,000 views a day! (That’s 80GB per day, for those watching their waistline bandwidth usage). I haven’t had a chance to do a total tally, but I’m guessing that the screencast is up to 25,000 views.

The main TurboGears discussion Google Group has added about 100 people since Monday, crossing 350 earlier today. The announcements list crossed 100 today. Mailing list traffic is increasing, and people are coming up with some cool stuff. Interesting things are taking shape for 0.9!

Thanks to all of the people putting their energy into TurboGears!