Version 1.0b1 of Quixote is now available:
  http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/quixote/
  http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/files/quixote/Quixote-1.0b1.tar.gz

Changes from 0.7a3
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  * Remove an underscore from the Session attributes __remote_address,
    __creation_time, and __access_time.  Note that if you have pickled
    Session objects you will need to upgrade them somehow.

  * Use a simpler version of ptl_compile.parse() if using Python >= 2.3.
    Unfortunately, the hacks are still needed for older versions.

  * Change the behavior of session cookies if SESSION_COOKIE_PATH is
    unset.  The old behavior was to not set the 'path' attribute of the
    session cookie.  The new behavior is to use SCRIPT_NAME.  Also, set
    the 'path' attribute when revoking the session cookie.  Some
    browsers treat it as a separate cookie if it has a different path.

  * Don't try to compress stream responses.

  * Refactor PublishError exception handling.  Requests will now be
    logged even if they raise an exception.  This also allows some
    simplification to the Medusa and Twisted server code.

  * Make HTTPRequest.get_server() return HTTP_HOST if it is available
    rather than using SERVER_NAME and SERVER_PORT.

  * If "Host" header is present, use it to set SERVER_NAME and
    SERVER_PORT.

  * Make HTTPRequest.get_url() escape unsafe characters in the path part
    of the URL.

  * Use a simple counter instead of using the 'random' module when
    trying to generate unique names for uploaded files.

  * Allow arbitrary mapping objects to be used as the right hand operand
    when formating htmltext objects (i.e. as an argument to the
    htmltext.__mod__ method).  The _c_htmltext implemention used to only
    allow 'dict' instances.  Change _c_htmltext to allow any mapping.
    Also, instead of accessing every item in the mapping, use
    PyObject_GetItem() (aka __getitem__) to retrieve the values as they
    are required.  That matches the behavior of PyString_Format().

  * Don't set DEBUG_LOG in demo.conf.  Extra logs files are confusing
    when people are starting out.

  * Significant form2 package changes.  Remove FormComponent and related
    machinery.  Allow widgets to control how they are rendered within
    forms (by overriding the form_render() method.  Reorganize rendering
    code in the form module so that it is easier to subclass form and
    provide a different look.  Change the parsing behavior of widgets.
    They no longer parse themselves when __init__ is called.  Instead,
    each widget has a parse() method that calls _parse(), if it hasn't
    been called already, and returns the widgets value.  Allow
    Widget._parse() to raise WidgetValueError in order to signal a
    parsing error.  Add a CompositeWidget class.  Remove
    Widget.get_value() since parse() seems to be sufficient.

  * Add HTTPS header when running under twisted_http.py.

  * Add cimport as a standard Quixote extension.

  * Disable FIX_TRAILING_SLASH in demo.conf.  It can be confusing when
    trying to get the demo running.

  * Allow _q_exports to contain mappings of external names to internal
    names.

  * Twisted does not unquote the path so make twisted_http.py do it.

  * Implement error logging for mod_python handler.