django-allauth 0.8.0 released

Posted by Raymond Penners on 2012-09-01

Note worthy changes

account: Dropped dependency on the emailconfirmation app, integrating its functionality into the account app. This change is of major impact, please refer to the documentation on how to upgrade.
account: Documented ACCOUNT_USERNAME_REQUIRED. This is actually not a new setting, but it somehow got overlooked in the documentation.
account/socialaccount: Dropped the _tags postfix from the template tag libraries. Simply use {% load account %} and {% load socialaccount %}.
Added signup and social login signals.
SoundCloud: Rabi Alam contributed a SoundCloud provider, thanks!
account: Sam Solomon cleaned up the email management view: added proper redirect after POSTs, prevent deletion of primary email. Thanks.
account: When signing up, instead of generating a completely random username a more sensible username is automatically derived from first/last name or email.

allauth now depends on Django 1.4 or higher.
Major impact: dropped dependency on the emailconfirmation app, as this project is clearly left unmaintained. Important tickets such as https://github.com/pinax/django-email-confirmation/pull/5 are not being addressed. All models and related functionality have been directly integrated into the allauth.account app. When upgrading take care of the following:
- The emailconfirmation setting EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_DAYS has been replaced by ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_EXPIRE_DAYS.
- Instead of directly confirming the email address upon the GET request the confirmation is now processed as part of an explicit POST. Therefore, a new template account/email_confirm.html must be setup.
- Existing emailconfirmation data should be migrated to the new tables. For this purpose a special management command is available: python manage.py account_emailconfirmationmigration. This command does not drop the old emailconfirmation tables -- you will have to do this manually yourself. Why not use South? EmailAddress uniqueness depends on the configuration (ACCOUNT_UNIQUE_EMAIL), South does not handle settings dependent database models.
{% load account_tags %} is deprecated, simply use: {% load account %}
{% load socialaccount_tags %} is deprecated, simply use: {% load socialaccount %}