I'm happy to see that people are using the LTS release as intended. Not surprised at all that the newest releases are the least used ones. More than a little surprised that version 1.6 still has any users at all, let alone how many it actually does have.<p>For those not familiar with django's release history the 1.6 -> 1.7 major release was a very large change in terms of how database migrations are handled. In 1.6 (and earlier) there was no built in too for it, but a very popular django extension library called South was the standard. In version 1.7 the creator of South (Andrew Godwin) wrote a migration tool for django core that was based on his previous work with South. There is a migration path from South to django core migrations and it's not that scary to do but it's a little work. That was several years ago at this point though. I wonder if some projects just abandoned upgrading at 1.6 because of this.