This is a major - major release mostly because it includes the new DAL. It is supposed to be 100% backward compatible but cleaner, and more readable. We have fixed every known issue. If 1.90.1 breaks you DAL queries, please report it asap so that it can be addressed sooner.
It also includes a lot of new features as described below. Changelog 1.90.1: - new DAL (complete rewrite of the web2py DAL is more modular) - rewrite has fail safe reload, thanks Jonathan - better CAS with v2 support, thanks Olivier ROCH VILATO - better markmin2latex - session.connect(separate=True) to handle many session files, thanks huaiyu wang - changed bahvior of impersonate (more secure, can generate form or used as API) - new rocket, thanks Tim - new pyfpdf - no more old style classes (we did some cleanup in the past sbut we had missed a few). - experimental couchdb support in new dal (only insert, select, update by id) - mysql support out of the box via pymysql - SQLITABLE(...,headers='labels') thanks Bruno - optional: digitally signed URLs, thanks Brian Meredyk - minor bug fixes