The State of Django¶
Note
Interesting to see how this differs almost 3 years later. 2011/12/19
- Django is 5 years old
What has happened since?¶
- Huge growth
- Merged models and admins
- DjangoCon
- Google App Engine
Django 1.0¶
Backwards incompatible
Changed Signals
QSRF (queryset refactor branch)
Pluggable file storage
newforms is now forms
- Modelforms
- Formsets
Session backends
File uploads work reliably
autoescape
Databrowse
geodjango
Runs on:
- Jython
- PyPy
- IronPython*
Django 1.1 beta¶
Aggregates
Annotations
Query Expressions
Unmanaged models
- Lets you subclass User and other things.
Condition view processing
Admin
- Expose particular fields as editable
- Define bulk actions
What next?¶
Django 1.1 final
GSoC
Multiple database support
EuroDjangoCon in May
USDjangoCon in the fall
Django 1.2 in november
Py3k thoughts
- Support for python 2.3 will fade