Django 1.0 was released in September 2008. This release marks a major turning point in Django's development; a real maturation of the project. Join the lead developers of Django as they discuss what's new in Django 1.0, cover the Django 1.1 release (currently scheduled for a few weeks after PyCon), and discuss the project's future.

1. The State of Django
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
PyCon, March 27, 2009
http://jacobian.org/speaking/2009/state-of-django/

2. Happy five years!

3. Since PyCon 2008...

4. 7,000

5. 14,000

6. QSRF
NFA

7. Merged

8. “Dude, we should
totally have a big Django
meetup some time!”

10. Developing reusable apps
James Bennett
! !
PyCon Chicago, March 15, 2008

13. Django 0.96
Over one year old

14. 1.0

15. Unicode
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/unicode/

16. Home Download Documentation Weblog Community Code
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Get Django installed on your computer.
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Looking for specific You are here:
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17. 48 languages

18. Signals

19. 0.96

20. 1.0

21. QSRF

22. Oracle

23. Pluggable file storage
http://docs.djangoproject.com/env/dev/howto/custom-file-storage/

24. newforms

25. ModelForms
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms/

26. Formsets
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/forms/formsets/

27. Session backends
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/sessions/

28. File uploads: less FAIL

29. autoescape

30. Databrowse
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/databrowse/

31. Databrowse
Reporters John Doe, Jane Smith, Eric Jones, More !
Articles Dog bites man, Man bites dog, More !

32. Databrowse
Home / Reporters / Jane Smith
Reporter: Jane Smith
ID 2
Name Jane Smith
Email jsmith@example.net
Appears in quot;reporterquot; in the following articles:
Dog bites man

33. django wiki mercurial docs presentations vmware (user: geo, pass: where2.0)
A world-class geographic web framework
GeoDjango

36. newforms-admin

37. Jython
PyPy
IronPython*

38. et cetera

39. Django 1.1 beta
now available

40. What’s new in 1.1?
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.1-alpha-1/
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.1-beta-1/

41. ORM aggregation
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/aggregation/

42. >>> Book.objects.aggregate(
... Avg('price'),
... highest_price = Max('price'))
{'price_avg': 45.0, 'highest_price': 82.80}

43. >>> Author.objects.aggregate(Sum('book__price'))
{'book_price_sum': 442}

44. >>> books = Book.objects.annotate(Max('authors__age'))
>>> books[0].name
u'Python Web Development With Django'
>>> books[0].authors.all()
[<Author: Jeffrey Forcier >, <Author: Paul Bissex>,
<Author: Wesley J. Chun>]
>>> books[0].authors__age__max
37.0

45. Publisher.objects.annotate(num_books=Count('book__id'))
.filter(num_books__gt=1)
.order_by('num_books')

46. Query Expressions
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/queries/#query-expressions

47. >>> Poll.objects.update(votes = F('votes') + 1)

48. Test faster

49. Unmanaged models

50. class Person(models.Model):
...
class Meta:
managed = False

51. Proxy models

52. from django.contrib.auth import User
class EmotionalUser(User):
class Meta:
proxy = True
def is_angry(self):
return self.username == 'hulk'

53. Deferred fields

54. >>> Story.objects.filter(...).defer('body')

55. Conditional View Processing
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/conditional-view-processing

56. def latest_entry(request):
return Entry.objects.aggregate(Max('published'))
@last_modified(latest_entry)
def front_page(request):
...

57. Admin

59. What’s next?

60. Django 1.1
April 20ish

61. Please help!

62. GSoC

63. EuroDjangoCon

64. US DjangoCon ’09

65. 1.2

66. Py3k

67. Thank you!
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
<jacob@jacobian.org>
BoF: 2:30pm today