v1.1.0

New compilation technique, possible minor breaking changes, performance summary

🫳 Dropped BS4 (BeautifulSoup4) for HTML parsing in the compilation step.

This was due to:

• Increasing number of patches to control BS4's parsing and validating of the HTML
• Inability to support some planned features of cotton, without some extensive patching of BS4 base classes, specifically for now supporting quoteless attributes

⚠️ Minor changes:

• Attribute casing is now preserved. <div SomeAttribute="1"> would have previously been lowercased.
• Whitespace behaviour is now more in-line with your template, this should not affect the view, but may affect things like tests if you have any changing HTML
• Whitespacing around attributes in some of the tags have changed which again may affect tests

🏎️ Performance summary

A fix for a recent issue allowed us to improve performance and we're now on par with (and sometimes outperforming) Django for the render load tests. (scope of tests have room for improving)

Running benchmarks with 5 runs, 5000 iterations each
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Native Django {% for %} loop: 38.59 ms
Cotton equivalent: 28.34 ms
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Native {% include %}: 28.64 ms
Cotton equivalent: 28.98 ms
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Native {% block %} and {% extends %}: 90.44 ms
Cotton equivalent: 103.65 ms

Full Changelog: v1.0.12...v1.1.0

v1.0.12

Support for python 3.8

• Changed @cache to the equivalent @lru_cache(max_size=None) by @wrabit in #167

Full Changelog: v1.0.11...v1.0.12

v1.0.11

What's Changed

• An issue reported a gradually increasing delay between page loads, noticed when specifically using 'django-browser-reload' plugin. Some investigation showed get_dirs() to create delays over time, added @cache.

Full Changelog: v1.0.10...v1.0.11

v1.0.10

Bug fix

• Fixed ordering of tag attributes inside named slots by @wrabit in #164

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v1.0.9

Bug fix

• Fixed order of priority of incoming attributes over <c-vars /> by @wrabit in #161

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v1.0.8

The previous version isolates too much of the original context. This needs more time to work on a suitable solution to isolate context, for now we're reverting the behaviour.

v1.0.7

What's Changed

• Reinstated isolated context by @wrabit in #157
• Added template partials setup guide to docs by @wrabit in #154

Full Changelog: v1.0.6...v1.0.7

v1.0.6 - bugfix

What's Changed

• Ensure boolean attrs in {{ attrs }} appear as attributes without a value by @wrabit in #151

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v1.0.5

What's Changed

• fixed case where cvars dynamic defaults were not being applied by @wrabit in #150

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v1.0.4

What's Changed

• Fixed string attributes being parsed as a template variables by @wrabit in #149

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