Changelog¶

Odoo version 18.0¶

Searching by name is now implemented as _search_display_name like all other fields. See #174967.
New methods to check access rights and rules now combine both access rights and rules: check_access, has_access and _filtered_access. See #179148.
Translations are made available from the Environment with #174844.

The internal operator inselect is removed. The alternative is to use in with a Query or SQL object. #171371.

We can now group by date parts numbers in read_group, _read_group and domains with #159528.

The group_operator attribute of Field is renamed into aggregator with #127353.
We can now group/aggregate/order by related no-store field with #127353.

Method _flush_search() has been deprecated with #144747. The flushing of fields is now done by execute_query(), and is based on metadata put in the SQL object by _search() and other low-level ORM methods that build such objects. Those methods are also responsible for checking the access rights on the fields that are used in the SQL object.

Introduce an SQL wrapper object to make SQL composition easier and safer with respect to SQL injections. Methods of the ORM now use it internally. Introduced by #134677.

Method name_get() has been deprecated with #122085. Read field display_name instead.

Refactor the implementation of searching and reading methods to be able to combine both in a minimal number of SQL queries. We introduce two new methods search_fetch() and fetch() that take advantage of the combination. More details can be found on the pull request #112126.

Translations for translated fields are stored as JSONB values with #97692 and #101115. Code translations are no longer stored into the database. They become static and are extracted from the PO files when needed.
search_count() takes the limit argument into account with #95589. It limits the number of records to count, improving performance when a partial result is acceptable.

New API for flushing to the database and invalidating the cache with #87527. New methods have been added to odoo.models.Model and odoo.api.Environment, and are less confusing about what is actually done in each case. See the section SQL Execution.

The argument args is renamed to domain for search(), search_count() and _search(). #83687
filtered_domain() conserves the order of the current recordset. #83687
browse() does not accept str as ids. #83687
The methods fields_get_keys() and get_xml_id() on Model are deprecated. #83687
The method _mapped_cache() is removed. #83687
Remove the limit attribute of One2many and Many2many. #83687

Specific index types on fields: With #83274 and #83015, developers can now define what type of indexes can be used on fields by PostgreSQL. See the index property of odoo.fields.Field.
The _sequence attribute of Model is removed. Odoo lets PostgreSQL use the default sequence of the primary key. #82727
The method _write() does not raise an error for non-existing records. #82727
The column_format and deprecated attributes of Field are removed. #82727