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Wohoo. Werkzeug 0.2 is out now. Werkzeug started as simple collection of various utilities for WSGI applications and has become one of the most advanced WSGI utility modules. It includes a powerful debugger, full featured request and response objects, HTTP utilities to handle entity tags, cache control headers, HTTP dates, cookie handling, file uploads, a powerful URL routing system and a bunch of community contributed addon modules.

So, what’s new in 0.2? Countless things and too many for this small list, but here the most important ones:

• The path converter limitation is gone. rejoice!
• In the contrib package there is now a secure cookie (basically a hashed a client side session storage)
• Exceptions can now return response objects so that you can add headers etc.
• You can now convert a response object to a different type of response objects on the fly (for example if you have your own response object subclass with special features but the response object returned by a function is a simple BaseResponse)
• There are a bunch of extra features for response and request objects now (available as mixin classes) for HTTP header parsing and dumping
• All the routing exceptions are now HTTPExceptions which simplifies dispatching a lot
• werkzeug.script has a much simpler way of specifying boolean parameters
• lazy_property is now called cached_property, update your code!
• many cool small helper functions that deal with python modules and packages. There is find_modules which can return a generator for all the modules below a package and import_string which allows you to simply import objects from a string. No more __import__ hackery needed.
• the usage of the map adapter is much easier now too and a lot more rest compliant. See the new documentation
• dozens of small fixes and additions!

There is also a new website and documentation and the tutorial was translated to German. For 0.3 we hopefully have some more translations for the tutorial and a better documentation for the contrib modules which are currently just documented in docstrings.

Grab it from the cheeseshop while it’s hot.

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