SQLAlchemy 0.6.9, a maintenance release of the 0.6 branch, is now
available.
The 0.6 series has not seen a release since 0.6.8 was released
nearly a year ago. During that time, the 0.7 series has gone through
over six releases, gaining many new features and bug fixes. A
portion of these fixes have been backported to 0.6 since 0.6.8,
including twelve ORM fixes, so 0.6.9 is an effort to make these
fixes widely available to those installations who have not yet
upgraded to 0.7. The release coincides at the same time as release
0.7.7, which is also fast approaching maintenance-only mode with
0.8 now well underway and close to initial beta releases.
Care has been taken in 0.6.9 to minimize as much as possible the
potential for backwards-incompatibilities with existing code, which
sometimes can occur if an application is unknowingly relying upon
a buggy behavior that is then fixed. So while 0.6.9 is a very
conservative release, it does still represent changes over a year's
time; users are strongly urged to carefully review the CHANGES file
to see exactly what's been adjusted, and to test it fully in their
existing 0.6 applications before promoting it to production.
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