A long-term support release that adds multiple template engines (Jinja2), a formal Model._meta API and PostgreSQL-specific fields.
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Release notes
- Released: April 1, 2015
- Python: 2.7, 3.2 – 3.5
- Support: Long-term support (LTS)
Read the full notes, including backwards-incompatible changes, at docs.djangoproject.com.
New features
- Multiple template engines and the TEMPLATES setting (Jinja2 support).
- Formalized Model._meta API.
- django.contrib.postgres: ArrayField, HStoreField and range fields.
- Query expressions, conditional expressions (Case/When) and database functions.
- SecurityMiddleware, UUIDField, DurationField and TestCase.setUpTestData().
Deprecated features
- TEMPLATE_* settings: use TEMPLATES.
- patterns() and string view references in URLconfs.
- SubfieldBase.
- request.REQUEST.