Changelog

Here are the high-level changes to Full Stack Python in reverse chronological order since its inception in December 2012. You can view commit-level changes via the source repository's commit log on GitHub.

2021

March

• New webhook resource.

February

• New GPT-3 resources.

January

• Published a new blog post on Using Django & AssemblyAI for More Accurate Twilio Call Transcriptions.
• Updated Flask extension projects and example code.
• Happy New Year!

2020

December

• New Bash, tmux and Vim resources and explanations.

November

• New resources for DevOps and containers.

October

• Added new blog on Higher Accuracy Twilio Voice Transcriptions with Python and Flask.
• New NumPy resources.

September

• Tweaks across Flask code examples.

August

• New blog posts on How to Transcribe Speech Recordings into Text with Python and Using Sentry to Handle Python Exceptions in Django Projects.
• Added new GPT-3 page.
• Updated debugging page with some additional descriptions.

July

• Updated webhooks page with additional resources.
• New blog posts:
  • Tracking Daily User Data in Django with django-user-visit
  • Quickly Use Bootstrap 4 in a Django Template with a CDN
  • How to report errors in Flask web apps with Sentry

June

• Added new example code for Django modules:
  • django.contrib.admin.helpers ActionForm, and AdminForm
  • django.contrib.admin.options IS_POPUP_VAR, IncorrectLookupParameters, ModelAdmin, and csrf_protect_m
  • django.contrib.admin.sites NotRegistered and site
  • django.core cache, checks, exceptions, mail, management, serializers, signals, signing, and validators
  • django.utils.translation LANGUAGE_SESSION_KEY, activate, deactivate_all, get_language, get_language_from_request, gettext, gettext_lazy, ngettext, override, pgettext, pgettext_lazy, ugettext, ugettext_lazy, ungettex, and ungettext_lazy
• Added new example code pages for Flask modules:
  • flask.blueprints Blueprint
  • flask.ctx after_this_request, has_app_context and has_request_context
  • flask.globals current_app
  • flask.helpers send_file
  • flask.json JSONEncoder
  • flask.sessions BadSignature and SessionMixin

May

• Added new example code pages for Flask modules:
  • flask.cli FlaskGroup, ScriptInfo, and with_appcontext
  • flask.globals request and session
  • flask.helpers flask, make_response, and url_for
  • flask.sessions SessionInterface
  • flask.signals Namespace
  • flask.templating render_template
  • flask.views MethodView, View, and http_method_funcs
• New blog post on Reporting Exceptions in Python Scripts with Sentry.
• Tweaked some CSS for the site.
• Added a new page with the start of pandas example code and projects.

April

• Merge PR #233 and PR #235 for new Celery and podcast resources.
• Updated the web design page with new resources.

March

• Added another new blog post on Exporting pandas DataFrames into SQLite with SQLAlchemy.
• Added new blog post tutorial on Learning pandas by Exploring COVID-19 Data.
• New web design and web development resources.
• Added new blog post on The Best Resources for Developers to Learn Finance.

February

• New CSS, task queue and uWSGI resources.
• Added new Django code example pages:
  • django.forms DateField
  • django.forms DateTimeField
  • django.forms TypedChoiceField

January

• Added new Django code example pages:
  • django.db.models SmallIntegerField
  • django.urls.exceptions Resolver404
• Added starter pages for the remaining topics in the table of contents that were previously missing. Still working on adding more resources and descriptions to each page:
  • Datadog
  • GoCD
  • Salt
  • Sentry
• Happy New Year (and decade) to my fellow Python developers!

2019

December

• 7 years of Full Stack Python as of December 23, 2019!
• Cleaned a bunch of dead links out thanks to PR #225.
• Merged PR #224 with information and resources on the Masonite web framework for the other web frameworks page.
• Updated the RQ page with a couple of new fresh resources.
• Added new Django code example pages:
  • django.db.models GenericIPAddressField
  • django.db.models ImageField
  • django.db.models PositiveIntegerField
  • django.db.models PositiveSmallIntegerField
  • django.db.models.related ForeignKey
  • django.forms EmailField
  • django.forms IntegerField

November

• Added new resources to RQ, Sanic and networking pages.
• Added new Django code example pages:
  • django.forms BooleanField
  • django.forms CharField
  • django.forms ChoiceField

October

• Removed a bunch of outdated content from the best Python resources page and added some nice new links to the mix.
• Published a new blog post tutorial on the String Data Type in Python 3.
• Added new Django code example pages:
  • django.db.models FileField
  • django.db.models SlugField
• Updated code examples on the following pages:
  • django.db.models TextField
• Rewrote some parts of the Python 2 or 3 page to make it more clear that 3 is now the mandatory way to get started.
• Updated best videos page with new EuroPython links.

September

• Added new Django code example pages:
  • django.apps.config AppConfig
  • django.contrib.admin.sites register
  • django.db OperationalError
  • django.db.models AutoField
  • django.db.models DateField
  • django.db.models IntegerField
  • django.http HttpResponse
  • django.http HttpResponseBadRequest
  • django.http HttpResponseForbidden
  • django.http HttpResponseNotModified
  • django.http HttpResponseRedirect
  • django.template.response TemplateResponse
  • django.template.response SimpleTemplateResponse
  • django.urls reverse_lazy

August

• Added stub page for mod_wsgi.
• Merged PR #215 to fix a typo on the serverless page. Thanks Kyle!
• Added new Flask code examples:
  • flask request
  • flask redirect
• Added new Django code examples pages:
  • django.contrib.auth get_user_model
  • django.contrib.auth.decorators login_required
  • django.contrib.auth.hashers make_password
  • django.http Http404
  • django.http.responses HttpResponsePermanentRedirect
  • django.urls.exceptions NoReverseMatch
• Updated code examples on the following pages:
  • django.contrib admin
  • django.db.models DateTimeField
  • django.utils timezone

July

• Pushed the 3000th commit to Full Stack Python, a bit over 3 years after the 2000th commit and 5ish years after the 1000th commit. Here's to the next 1,000 commits!
• New blog post with slides and a loose transcript of my latest talk on Developer-led sales for tech startups.

June

• Added a new page for Django BaseCommand code examples.
• Started new open source code examples series, beginning with url and path functions.

May

• Added new data visualization, web design and pandas resources.
• Updated the subnav with a link to deploypython.com and added a bunch of new resources across pages on the site.
• Rearrange parts of the app dependencies page to make it easier to read.
• Fix typos and broken internal links on site.

April

• Added new web frameworks, d3.js and Django REST framework resources.
• New Stripe API resources.

March

• Added new resources across the site and merged PR #206 with a new Heroku page link.
• New resources on the web analytics page.

February

• Added a ton of resources on the Kubernetes page.
• Removed many broken links thanks to pull request #205. Thanks again Sam!
• Add uWSGI page with a few initial resources.
• Updated the Neo4j and microservices pages with more resources.
• Added a bunch more bots resources.
• New data and data analysis resources added.
• Refreshed the relational databases page with new resources and removed some out-of-date ones.

January

• Merged PR #202 to fix a typo on the web frameworks page.
• Updated the source control page with more resources.
• Added new post on the Introduction to Ansible video course launch.
• Cleaned up a bunch of broken links thanks to pull request #198. Thanks again Sam!
• Added new MongoDB resources.
• Updated the Docker page with new resources, removed old ones and added new descriptions to sections.
• Happy New Year!

2018

December

• Added a ton of new resources and descriptions on the Cassandra page.
• 6 years of Full Stack Python as of December 23, 2018!
• Updated SQLAlchemy, NoSQL, MongoDB and Slack API pages with new descriptions and resources.
• Updated the serverless, operating systems and HTTPS pages with a bunch of new resources.

November

• Updated the logging, Redis and PaaS pages with a bunch of new resources.
• Updated the web design page with new resources.
• Updated the data visualization page with new resources.

October

• Added new blog post on Adding Okta Authentication to an Existing Flask Web App.
• Sent out a quick email newsletter update about new recent tutorials on the blog.
• Added a bunch of new testing page resources.
• Published new post on How to Provision Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux Servers on DigitalOcean.
• Published a new blog post showing How to Add User Authentication to Flask Apps with Okta.
• Merge PR #189 to help readers figure out how to get around some security warning issues that could come up in the Slack bot tutorial.
• Added even more new debugging tutorials and split pdb tutorials into their own section.

September

• A ton of new tools and links on the debugging page.
• Added a starter Django REST Framework page.
• New web app security, task queue and WebRTC resources.
• Added a bunch of new resources across the site and removed a few out of date ones as well.
• Added initial pages for WebRTC and JavaScript frameworks. More resources coming to those pages soon.