It seems you are correct. I reopened the ticket and left a comment with the result of my investigation.
On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 10:36:09 PM UTC-4, Chris Moirano wrote: > > Hey Tim, > > Sorry if this may be an unnecessary question but the ticket 24704 > (Development server does not restart on syntax errors) seems to be a > regression and not a fix. I was previously on version 1.6.x and the > development server would continue to run if there were syntax errors. The > only change with this ticket was the docs were updated to remove the line > "but it won't stop the server"(commit > <https://github.com/django/django/commit/0f2e82b9ec9797147945a6f9a402b5ae0fb1d9f4>) > > from the docs. Is this development server change intentional in 1.8? > > On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 7:09:27 PM UTC-5, Tim Graham wrote: >> >> I am thinking that if all goes well, we will probably release a 1.8.1 bug >> fix release by next Friday. Currently we have about 20 fixes for that >> release. >> >> Report for week ending April 24, 2015: >> >> Triaged >> >> ------- >> >> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24668 - Update docs example code >> for ModelAdmin.save_formset() (fixed) >> >> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24676 - Regression on ManytoMany >> representation in the admin interface (accepted) >> >> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24675 - Skip "SET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL >> = 0" on versions of MySQL that don't need it (accepted) >> >> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24630 - Misleading/incorrect docs >> about RunPython and transactions (accepted) >> >> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24686 - Support for Moving a model >> between two Django apps (accepted) >> >> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24690 - ArrayField data bleeds >> between instances when using field.append(item) (accepted) >> >> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24689 - DetailView & ListView >> get_template_name and get_context_object_name fail with deferred QuerySet >> (accepted) >> >> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24691 - Document >> model._state.adding (since UUIDField sets value before save) (accepted) >> >> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24698 - Relation clear fails >> silently when using OneToOneField+UUIDField (accepted) >> >> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24704 - Development server does >> not restart on SynaxError (fixed) >> >> Authored >> >> -------- >> >> https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/458 - Fixed #445 -- >> Fixed NotADirectory exception in docs app. >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4389 - Fixed #24526 -- Combined >> django.request/security loggers with the root logger. >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4548 - Fixed #24649 -- Allowed >> using Avg aggregate on non-numeric field types. >> >> Reviewed/committed >> >> ------------------ >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4534 - Refactored >> PasswordResetTokenGenerator to be a bit more extensible. >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4458 - Refs #24397 -- Sped up >> model reloading in ProjectState. >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4393 - Fixed #22394 -- Refactored >> built-in datetime lookups to transforms. >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4533 - Refs #24591 -- Optimized >> cloning of ModelState objects. >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4460 - Fixed #24591 -- Optimized >> cloning of ModelState objects. >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4539 - Fixed #24613 -- Added >> example to QuerySet.defer() documentation >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4512 - Fixed #24643 -- Added >> get_context_data() method to FormMixin >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4546 - Fixed #24689 -- Fixed >> DetailView methods with deferred QuerySet >> >> Reviews of core dev work >> >> ------------------------ >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4447 - Fixed #24573 -- Considered >> new related models for reloading >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4529 - Fixed #24654 -- Based >> ordering circular references detection on columns. >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4416 - Fixed #22598 -- Allowed >> make_aware to work with ambiguous datetime >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4558 - Fixed #24701 -- Converted >> model manager names to unicode in migrations >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4555 - Added lazyness to >> contrib.gis imports >> > > Confidentiality Notice: This message and any files transmitted with it are > confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to > whom they are addressed. 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