The document summarizes changes to Django's admin interface, including refactoring it to use newforms, removing the specification of admin options from models, and defining ModelAdmin classes in a new admin.py module at the application level instead. Key features are improved APIs, decoupling models from the admin, and new features that landed in the Django 1.0 trunk revision 7967.

1. What’s New in
newforms-admin
Brian Rosner
DjangoCon 2008

2. What is it?
• A branch of Django trunk that refactored
django.contrib.admin to use newforms.
• Many API improvements, model decoupling
and new features.
• Landed in trunk at revision 7967.
• A part of Django 1.0.

3. What has changed?
• No longer specify admin options in your
model or model fields.

4. # models.py
from django.db import models
class Article(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
slug = models.SlugField(
prepopulate_fields=(‘title’,))
class Admin:
list_display = (‘title’,)