commit 3da5d9d1f421a2c419737633892f3c2e9a90be45
author Sean Griffin <sean@seantheprogrammer.com> Tue Jul 04 10:56:56 2017 -0400
committer Sean Griffin <sean@seantheprogrammer.com> Tue Jul 04 10:56:56 2017 -0400
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Release v0.14.0 (The one with all the joins)

One of the oldest issues in Diesel was that we limited the number of
tables that could appear in a single query to 2. The problem was never
about having more than 2 tables, but safely and correctly proving in the
type system what would and could not be selected from that join.

With 0.14, that restriction has been removed. The query builder now
supports joins containing an arbitrary number of tables. You may find
that you need to call `enable_multi_table_joins!` for a few tables, but
that need should go away in the future as specialization matures.

In addition to the headline feature, this release includes support for
several new datatypes (including `NUMERIC`/`DECIMAL` which has been
widely requested), and other small quality of life improvements. As
always, you can see [the
CHANGELOG](https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/blob/v0.14.0/CHANGELOG.md)
for the full release notes.

The Road to 1.0
------

A recent point of discussion among the core team has been what remaining
blockers we have for releasing a version 1.0. The roadmap doesn't
necessarily include everything that would make us "feature complete". It
focuses on the set of changes that we think are likely to require
breaking changes.

We expect that this will be the last 0.x release. You can follow the
milestone
[here](https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A1.0).
Additionally, we all agreed that the biggest blocker to a 1.0 release is
improvements to our documentation. We're going to be doing a big push in
the coming months to clean things up, and are looking for help from the
community. You can follow that project
[here](https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/projects/1), or just come
join us in [our gitter
room](https://gitter.im/diesel-rs/diesel?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge)
to talk about how you can help.

There will be a blog post with more details about this in the coming
weeks.

Contributors
-----

In addition to the core team, 10 people contributed to this release. A
huge thank you to:

* Dorian Scheidt
* FliegendeWurst
* Georg Semmler
* JD Gonzales
* Jim McGrath
* Kieran
* Ruben De Smet
* Sunrin SHIMURA (keen)
* Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
* theduke

Core Team Changes
------

With this release, we are also making some changes to the core team to
better reflect the current active maintainers. In recognition of his
fantastic work, we're pleased to welcome @Eijebong to the core team.
Many early members of the team have also since moved onto other
projects. To reflect that, Mike Piccolo, Matt Casper, and Sam Phippen
are all being moved to the core team alumni.