I'm glad this is finally out. I'll like to thank everyone for the hard
work put here !

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Chris Perkins <ch...@percious.com> wrote:
> The TurboGears team is proud to present TurboGears 2.1.  2.1 has been in
> development for about one year with the first alpha released in October of
> 2009.  If you haven’t been following along, here is a review of the changes
> that 2.1 brings from 2.0.
>
> Better performance.  The TG team worked hard profiling to see what could be
> done to make TG faster.  2.1 is at least 20% faster than 2.0 on page-loads
> as a result.
> Better Mako support.  (quickstart template now includes a --mako option) If
> you want a highly performant website, Mako is a better option than genshi.
> Kajiki support.  This template engine is for those who like the XML
> templating on Genshi, but need much better performance.
> Re-written dispatcher.  Object Dispatch has now become Abstract Dispatch,
> and the code that decides which controller method should be executed has
> been refactored and consolidated.  An open API is provided for those that
> want to create their own dispatch mechanisms by using the _dispatch method
> in your controllers.
> Pylons 1.0 support.  Those of you still running 0.9.7 can do so as well.  TG
> 2.1 is cross -compatible, which means if you have a 2.0 application, you
> needn’t upgrade to Pylons 1.0 until you decide to.
> Reduced dependencies. For those of you who use TG as a service, or do not
> need database or an admin, TG has reduced it’s dependencies to the low-20s.
> The full stack with SQLAlchemy and an admin still has more packages, but the
> packages which were most difficult to install have been removed (those
> requiring RuleDispatch in particular).
> Finally, documentation improvements.  The documentation has been visually
> overhauled, reorganized, and brought up to date.  There is still
> considerable work to do in this area, but a significant effort has been made
> to solidify those areas which are most often asked about by our users.
>
> TurboGears is committed to maintaining the 2.x branch for the long-term.
> This release is intended not to make significant strides in capability,
> rather to refine our existing functionality in order to add significant
> consistency to the codebase.  We have already started working on a 2.2
> branch, which continues this effort, and will open up more APIs to the
> framework.  We look forward to your continued support!
>
> A special thanks goes out to all of you who made this release possible.
>  Without the dedication from folks writing docs, providing feedback and
> bugfixes, this release could not have happened.  We look forward to the
> continued community support for the future to come.
>
> cheers.
>
> -chris
>
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