The first long-term support release. Adds time zone support, Selenium-friendly LiveServerTestCase, and a new default project layout.
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Release notes
- Released: March 23, 2012
- Python: 2.5 – 2.7
- Support: Long-term support (LTS)
Read the full notes, including backwards-incompatible changes, at docs.djangoproject.com.
New features
- Time zone support (USE_TZ).
- In-browser testing with LiveServerTestCase.
- New default project layout, with manage.py at the top.
- QuerySet.bulk_create() and prefetch_related().
- Stronger password hashing (PBKDF2) and cryptographic signing.
Deprecated features
- django.conf.urls.defaults: use django.conf.urls.
- setup_environ() and execute_manager().
- django.contrib.databrowse.