News and Updates

Beta 4 of SQLAlchemy 0.7 has been released. This is most likely the last beta of version 0.7 before final release. 0.7 has been downloaded many hundreds of times and a small series of regressions have been fixed; it is used in at least a few production installations already.

Of particular note in this release:

• Support for psycopg2, the Postgresql driver, on Python 3
• The C extensions now build by default for the Python 2 platform.
• Support for Python 3 builds using plain Python Distutils, or Distribute.
• Full test success for Pypy, Python 3.2
• Lots of bugfixes and revised documentation, including the new Revised index page.

0.7beta4 owes a lot to the sprinters at this year's Pycon; a subsequent blog post detailing the sprints for this year is coming soon.

The SQLAlchemy 0.7 series represents a great leap forward in functionality and performance - the upgrade path starts by reviewing the 07Migration document.

Changes can be reviewed at CHANGES; download SQLAlchemy 0.7beta4 on the download page.