The perfectionists behind Django finally hit the commit button Wednesday and dropped "beta" from its title. The first final release is available at Django's website.
Django is a powerful open source web framework, written in Python, known for creating powerful websites quickly and also for helping to make the Python programming language popular.
1.0, the first stable Django release, was a long time in coming -- three years to be exact. According to the blog entry accompanying its release, Django developers are proud.
"Django 1.0 represents the largest milestone in Django's development to date: a web framework that a group of perfectionists can truly be proud of," wrote lead Django programmer Jacob Kaplan-Moss. "Django's received contributions from hundreds of developers, been translated into fifty languages, and today is used by developers on every continent and in every kind of job."
Among the many improvements included in 1.0 is a revamped admin application, automatic escaping of templates, better unicode handling and "pluggable" file storage. One caveat: there are a number of backward-incompatibility issues in the final release you may want to read about before upgrading.
Django is available for download at the Django Project download page. For a list of what is included in the latest version, see the release notes. Also, be sure to grab Mercury Tide's Django Cheat Sheet for all the short cuts that are fit to print.
The announcement comes just a few days ahead of Djangocon in Mountain View, CA where it is likely to be the talk of the town. The developers conference takes place on September 6 and 7 at Google Headquarters.
Oh, and yes, Django is named after the French jazz musician Django Reinhardt. Besides both being jazzy, there's little relation.
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