On behalf of the TurboGears Team, I am pleased to announce that TurboGears 1.1.1 is available for download at

http://turbogears.org

and the Python package index

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/TurboGears

TurboGears 1.1.1 is the first bugfix release of the TurboGears 1.1 branch, which is the evolution of the TurboGears 1 codebase. The 1.1 branch uses SQLAlchemy as the default database layer and Genshi as the standard templating engine, just like TurboGears 2.0, while keeping full backward compatibility with TurboGears 1.0.

What is TurboGears? -------------------

TurboGears is a rapid development, "front-to-back", open source web meta-framework. Its aim is to simplify and speed up the development of modern web applications written in the Python programming language.

TurboGears is designed around the model-view-controller architecture, much like Struts or Ruby on Rails, and takes the best Python web components available (hence "meta-framework") and combines them into one easy-to-install, documented whole.

What's new? -----------

For a comprehensive list of changes, as always, see the changelog in our Trac at

http://trac.turbogears.org/wiki/ChangeLog

How to install? ---------------

The easiest way to install TurboGears 1.1.1 is via setuptools:

[sudo] easy_install -f http://turbogears.org/download/ TurboGears

We recommend that you install TurboGears into its own virtual environment using the virtualenv tool:

[sudo] easy_install virtualenv virtualenv --no-site-packages /path/to/tgenv source /path/to/tgenv/bin/activate easy_install -f http://turbogears.org/download/ TurboGears

How is it related to TurboGears 2? ----------------------------------

TurboGears 1.1.1 is based on the original TG 1.0 codebase and still uses CherryPy 2 as the underlying web application server. It is fully backward compatible with TG 1.0; porting an application using SQLObject and Kid to use SQLAlchemy and Genshi is easiliy achieved.

TurboGears 2 has almost the same API as TurboGears 1, but builds on Pylons as the underlying web engine. Most new development for TurboGears now happens in version 2, but we will continue to provide bugfix releases for the TG 1.1 branch as well, and we are also working on a TG 1.5 branch which will be based on CherryPy 3 instead of CherryPy 2. Our current roadmap for the TG 1.5 branch is here:

http://docs.turbogears.org/1.5/DevPlans

Share & enjoy!

-- Christoph Zwerschke