Some great things in this release:<p>- official Jinja2 support, and a generic template interface<p>- native postgres fields<p>- uuid field<p>and it is an LTS. Time to get upgrading.
I'm especially excited about contrib.postgres[1].<p>HStoreField is going to be a significant improvement over the JSONFields we have been using...<p>[1] <a href="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/contrib/postgres/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/contrib/postgres/</a>
Really like that they added a way to store time intervals as python timedelta objects. Previously i think the best approach was to store a number of seconds as an integer and then calculate the number of minutes, hours etc.. yourself.
Great work, Django team!<p>I recently switched a project back to Django after some time playing with Rails.<p>One of the biggest attractions of Rails is the asset pipeline, but splitting the project and building the front-end with Ember-CLI takes away that advantage, leaving Django far ahead (IMO) with its cleaner ORM, less magical module importing, and Python's indented syntax.
Damn Django is pretty hard at sunsetting old versions. If they are going to release a new one in October and only supply security upgrades to things that are two versions behind, does that means you have to upgrade your system in less than a year?