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Django 1.0 has been officially released!

There's a huge list of changes from 0.96, which are covered in the Django 1.0 Release Notes. There's also a fantastic guide to porting your code from 0.96 to 1.0 which will be useful for those not keeping up with trunk.

The release announcement was made today by James Bennett in the Django-Users google group.

Congratulations to everybody who has been involved in the long road to 1.0. This gives us a fantastic base to work from for a stable and prosperous future.

Django, my web development framework of choice, has reached Alpha 1.0. There's a bunch of Backwards Incompatible Changes to the API which will require changes to your projects, but the codebase should be pretty stable from here to 1.0.

The biggest changes to this from the last official release are 'Unicode everywhere', a new and more powerful admin module powered by newforms, an updated database ORM that's more efficient, and automatic escaping in templates to help reduce the risk of cross-site scripting attacks.

1.0 should be released with a party at DjangoConf 2008 on September 2nd - I look forward to it (Although I won't be at DjangoConf, unfortunately).

Great work to everybody involved!