Adds built-in schema migrations, a refactored app loading system (AppConfig) and the system check framework.
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Release notes
- Released: September 2, 2014
- Python: 2.7, 3.2 – 3.4
- Support: Standard release
Read the full notes, including backwards-incompatible changes, at docs.djangoproject.com.
New features
- Built-in schema migrations (makemigrations / migrate).
- App loading refactor with AppConfig.
- System check framework.
- Custom lookups and transforms.
- Prefetch objects, QuerySet.as_manager() and JsonResponse.
Deprecated features
- syncdb: use migrate.
- The allow_syncdb router method: use allow_migrate.
- IPAddressField: use GenericIPAddressField.
- get_cache(): use django.core.cache.caches.