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I'm afraid I've neglected this blog for the last month. Here's some of what's gone on in the last month:

1. SQLObject 0.7.0 came out.
   
2. SQLObject 0.7.1 is in progress in the repository in http://svn.colorstudy.com/SQLObject/branches/0.7-bugfix
   
3. SQLObject 0.8 is in the trunk. So far it contains support for MS SQL, lazy constraint creation, new simplified joins, and an event system for better extensibility.
   
4. Some recent blog posts: How to Use Database Agnostic SQL in SQLObject, Using SQLObject with memcached
   
5. Catwalk, included in TurboGears, is a web application that is a browser/editor for SQLObject models.
   

SQLObject 0.7rc1 has just been released. See that Cheese Shop page for downloads. Final release should follow shortly.

Ben Bangert followed up his last post on FormEncode and SQLObject with a presentation on the two. These cover FormEncode more completely, and also give a brief comparison of SQLObject and Rails' ActiveRecord. Thanks Ben!

SQLObject 0.7b1 is released; get it at the Cheese Shop. The News file isn't at all up to date (it will be before 0.7final), so there's no summary of what all has changed. Also, installation has changed some and there may be issues with that; if you have problems please email the mailing list so we can work out the kinks.

We believe the code itself to be quite stable.

There's some slight rearrangement in the SQLObject repository, to use a more conventional layout. The previous location was http://svn.colorstudy.com/trunk/SQLObject. The current location of the trunk is http://svn.colorstudy.com/SQLObject/trunk.

If you have any checked-out repositories, you can fix them with this command (while in the working directory):

svn switch --relocate http://svn.colorstudy.com/trunk/SQLObject http://svn.colorstudy.com/SQLObject/trunk

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Ben Bangert has written a post on using SQLObject with FormEncode. FormEncode is a package related to SQLObject that does form validation and population. (Incidentally, SQLObject 0.7 will require FormEncode.)

Anders Pearson explains how to escape to custom SQL queries.

Julian Krause is planning to write a WSGI authentication middleware, with a SQLObject backend.

Lewis Franklin writes a glowing review of SQLObject.

And in the mainstream press (or the closest thing we got to mainstream press for websites) Leonard Richardson writes an article on SQLObject for IBM DeveloperWorks.

This new weblog is intended for news about SQLObject and related projects. Have something you'd like to see here? Email ianb@colorstudy.com.