Here corrected list of new features (in trunk and nightly build.
web2py 1.99.5 is NOT out yet)
- admin in Russian (Bulat), Japanese (Omi) and Slovenian (Robert
Valentak)
- included web-based debugger (experimental, thanks Mariano)
- def index(): return dict(a=gluon.tools.Expose(folder))
- db.table.field.like(...,case_sensitive=False) (thanks Floyd)
- db.table.field.regexp(...) for sqlite and postgres
- db(...,ignore_common_filters=True)
- db(db.dog_id.belongs(db.dogs.owner=='james')).select()
- db(...).select().group_by_value(db.table.field) (thanks Yair)
- db = DAL('imap://user:password@server:port') support (thanks Alan
Etkin)
- db = DAL('teradata://DSN=dsn;UID=user;PWD=pass; DATABASE=database')
(thanks Adrew Willmott)
- db = DAL('mongodb://127.0.0.1:5984/db') (experimental, thanks Mark
Breedveld)
- db = DAL('cubrid') (experimental)
- db = DAL('postgres:pg8000:...') and DAL('postgres:psycopg2:...')
- pg8000 now ships with web2py )thanks Mariano)
- reponse.delimiters = ('\\[','\\]') (thanks Denes)
- auth.user_groups stores user groups
- auth.is_impersonating()
- populate can now deal with computed fields (thanks Tsvi Mostovicz)
- new rediscache (thanks niphold)
- sync languages capability (thanks Yair)
- improved markmin auto-links
- improved ldap support (thanks Omi)
- added TimeCollector (thanks Caleb)
- better cpdb.py (thanks pasxidis)
- conditional menu items (reponse.menu=[(title,bool,link,
[],condition)]
- scripts/services/service.py (thanks Ross)
- gluon/contrib/login_methods/browserid_account.py (thanks Pai)
- gluon/contrib/htmlmin.py for html minimization (thanks kerncece)
- web2py_component has timeout parameter, thanks Alan
- 100's of small bug fixes and small improvements
