State of Django

Jannis Leidel@jezdez

Python WebDev Summit

AMD, Canonical, Discovery, Disqus, HP, IBM, Instagram,

Intel, Lexis-Nexis, The Library of Congress, Mozilla, NASA,

National Geographic, The New York Times, Orbitz, PBS,

Pinterest, Rdio, VMWare, Walt Disney, Washington Post

“”

Not bad for a few nerdshacking in a basement in Lawrence, Kansas, eh?

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

21,700 on user list7,000 on developer list

33* committers

65 translations

2,500 downloads/day

~2,100 projects atthe Cheeseshop

1.4, LTS

New project layout

Custom project templates

Standard WSGI entrypoint

Full timezone support

In-browser testing

Improved password hashing

Cryptographicsigning

Cookie session backend

Clickjackingprotection

New form wizard

select_for_update()bulk_create()prefetch_related()distinct(‘fieldname’)

i18n URLs

ImprovedIPv6 support

No exception wrapping in templates anymore

New @assignment_tagNew {% elif %}New {% static %}New {% truncatechars %}

*args and **kwargsfor template tags

Django 1.5

Python >= 2.5

Python 3.X

App refactor?

Questions?