Today, the latest version of Django has been released. And we’re happy to make it available to you with the new Django 1.5 one-click installer:
Django 1.5 brings with it several major improvements, including:
- A customizable user model. Now you can use you own model to store information about your users. Use it to ditch that 30-character username restriction, or to store first name and last name together in a single field.
- The verbatim template tag. It turns off Django’s templating between the tags. Handy for using some JavaScript libraries, for example.
- Experimental Python 3 support. Now you can start testing your Django application with Python 3, to prepare for the future of Python. Production-ready status will be here before you know it, when Django 1.6 is released.
Django 1.5 has a slew of other changes, too. Check out the Django project’s release announcement and release notes (mind those backwards incompatible changes), then give the new one-click installer a test drive. Let us know what you think in the comments and, if you have any questions, join us in the Q&A Community.
Should this not be under Python instead of Rails? Doubt it will really matter but I noticed it so I thought I would comment
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Thanks for the note. It’s fixed now.
Could you make an installer option for Python 3.3? I know it won’t be official until 1.6, but I’m currently running a custom app of 1.5 using Py3, and I’d love for there to be a one-click installer.
Sorry but we probably won’t make an installer until it’s officially supported
Similar one for Django 1.5.1 coming soon? There is a serious memory leak bug in 1.5 that has been fixed.
We added Django-1.5.1 shortly after it was released: https://twitter.com/webfaction/status/317398161566072832