Hello I have merged the changes concerning the upgrade to sqlalchemy 0.7 into master (formally default). This will require the following changes in dependencies. They are sqlalchemy-migrate==0.7.1 sqlalchemy==0.7.3 -e hg+https://bitbucket.org/okfn/vdm@vdm-0.10#egg=vdm formalchemy==1.4.1 Thanks David