Ready for 2025 with ViUR-core 3.7

Hey to all the ViUR developers out there!

We hope you had a nice X-Mas so far, and you’re curious about the upcoming new year, which is starting with ViUR-core 3.7 available now! This latest release is packed with new features, performance enhancements, and bug fixes to make your web development journey smoother than ever.

A bunch of new features

• FileBone(public=True):
    Make files publicly available via the Google Storage API’s serving URL feature and deliver them via “serving_url” known from ViUR 2.
• Skeleton.patch(): 
    A transactional read/write operation implementation that improves the Skeleton API towards a more integrated CRUD-API.
• UriBone: 
    Enhanced URL handling and validation (ports, protocols, paths).
• PhoneBone: 
    Store and validate phone and fax numbers in configurable formats.
• SpamBone: 
    Protect your site from unwanted spam.
• UidBone: 
    Generate unique IDs.

Performance and security tweaks

• Skeleton data handling issues: 
    Fixed improper creation and cloning of skeleton data.
• Database key handling errors: 
    Optimized database key handling, fixed sources of  potential data access or manipulation problems.

Start the new year with a refactored ViUR 3

• DatabaseAdapter: 
   has now simplified and more integrated triggers.
• RelationalBone: 
   Several improvements for better integration.
• Skeleton API: 
   We optimized the Skeleton API in several ways.
• SkelModule: 
    Improved retrieval of structures for Skeletons.
• Mails: 
   We are now using EmailTransport Instances instead of class for easier configuration.
• Session: 
    The session handler was optimized into a dict and to a more-integrated API.

How to unwrap this gift?

• Update your project: 
    Follow the official ViUR-core documentation to upgrade your project to version 3.7 using the newest version of the ViUR CLI tool.
• Explore the new features: 
    Dive into the exciting new possibilities offered by this release.
• Share: 
    Tell your experiences and tips to the ViUR community, and spread ViUR to the world.

If you want to continue exploring the occurred changes of the ViUR-core you can check out the changelog here!

Happy Coding!