News and Updates

SQLAlchemy release 1.3.0b2 is now available.

As the second beta release in the 1.3 series, version 1.3.0b2 has a focus on looking towards the future, ensuring that all features and behaviors that are long since deprecated fully emit a warning as such to better allow them to be removed in subsequent releases, as well as that some major new deprecations are added. The goal is to apply more focus to the ORM and Core usage APIs to allow easier transition to an eventual next generation version of SQLAlchemy suited to a Python 3 only world.

Major changes in 1.3.0b2 include:

• The AliasedClass construct may now be specified as the target for a relationship, fully replacing the remaining rationale for the "non primary mapper" feature which becomes deprecated.
• The convert_unicode parameter on Engine and String is deprecated, as unicode handling is now supplied by all supported DBAPIs.
• The "threadlocal" engine strategy, long an obsolete behavior, is finally deprecated.
• Deprecation warning are emitted for all functions, methods, and parameters that have already been noted in the documentation as deprecated.

For an overview of what's new in the 1.3 series, see Whats New in 1.3? Full changelog is available at Changelog.

SQLAlchemy 1.3.0b2 is available on the Download Page.