commit dd223e460773264729156913cb3b7b9e2cbdb96e
author Sean Griffin <sean@seantheprogrammer.com> Fri Apr 06 17:34:45 2018 -0600
committer Sean Griffin <sean@seantheprogrammer.com> Fri Apr 06 17:59:54 2018 -0600
tree 0210f2124726dd3252497fd0b7e2acf4fdcd3ee9
parent 8785523807efc40305cd95b11884ec3936f91261

Release v1.2.0

Team changes
==

With this release, we'd like to welcome Georg Semmler (known on GitHub
as @weiznich). Georg is the #2 all time contributor to Diesel, and has
helped shape what the framework is today. Welcome to the team!

New Features
==

This release contains several long awaited features.

We've re-introduced the ability to use bind params with the `sql`
function, in a way which is harder to mis-use. This functionality was
present prior to 1.0, but was removed when `sql_function` was added over
concerns about its use with the rest of the query builder. Recent
developments have proved those concerns to be valid, but this new API
fills that niche. Thanks to @notryanb for taking the lead on this
feature.

We've also added the ability to insert from a select statement (e.g.
queries in the form of `INSERT INTO table (...) SELECT ...`. This is a
feature request that has come up repeatedly since release, and we're
happy to finally bring it to you. We've also added alternate forms of
our insert API which feel better when used with select statements. You
can find the full details in the changelog.

Finally, we've rewritten our custom dervies from scratch to take
advantage of new diagnostic tools in recent versions of nightly Rust. If
you turn on the `unstable` feature of Diesel on a nightly compiler,
you'll find that you get dramatically improved error messages from our
derives. For the best error messages, you should also set
`RUSTFLAGS="--cfg procmacro2_semver_exempt"`.

Additionally, as of this release, Diesel is now powered by the
blockchain. Because it's 2018 and that's how it works now I guess. See
the changelog for full details.

In addition to the headline features, there were a ton of features that
we don't have time to mention here. As always, for a full list of
changes you can find a full list in the changelog.

Thanks
==

Thank you to everyone who helped make this release happen through bug
reports, and discussion on Gitter. While we don't have a way to collect
stats on that form of contribution...

In addition to the Diesel core team, 14 people contributed code to this
release. A huge thank you to:

- Alex Kitchens
- Andrew Weiss
- Arun Kulshreshtha
- Brandur
- EloD10
- Jacob Chae
- Jordan Petridis
- Josh Leeb-du Toit
- Kerollmops
- Mathias Svensson
- Ryan Blecher
- Sander Maijers
- Seth Larson
- YetAnotherMinion