Class based generic views is a big thing. Every time this came up on the django-dev list, there have been 100+ mails in that thread.

The concerns being the way to dispatch, accommodate view decorator and achieve extensibility, while still adhering to various people's _taste_ of how to (and how not to) achieve that.

>the focus of the Django 1.3 development process has been on adding lots of smaller, long standing feature requests. These include:

Does anyone know where I can find an exhaustive list of the small features that are new in 1.3?

Well, one of our requirements is that new features be documented, so looking at the log of changes to the documentation would be one place:

http://code.djangoproject.com/log/django/trunk/docs

There's also the "versionadded" directive in Sphinx, which we use to mark new features as they come in. Here's a list of all such directives for 1.3, and where they're found in the docs:

http://paste.pocoo.org/show/289755/

The release notes page was pretty comprehensive imho http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.3-alpha-1/

That's where the vague quote on which I was seeking clarification came from.

Control over auto-cascade deletion! Hurrah!

Logging! Bye bye nasty hack!