Django 1.2 is coming (in March 2010)

October 9, 2009 • django, programming • 215 words • about a 1 minute read

Work has begun on defining the scope of the next major release of Django, version 1.2.

Here’s a list of feature proposals that may or may not make their way into 1.2.

If I were a betting man, I’d put my money on most of the Summer of Code projects making their way in:

What would I like to see in 1.2? Well I think the multi-database stuff is going to be pretty useful but I also like:

Syndication feed views: http://github.com/bfirsh/syndication-view/
#1480, #2626 Store datetime values as UTC, handle them consistently regardless of RDBMS, platform and make things easier for multi-timezone applications.
Smarter if tag from http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1350/
Integrate the Python standard library logging module with Django
Support for non-relational databases: Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant, MongoDB, Cassandra, Google Bigtable (AppEngine, #10192), Amazon SimpleDB, CouchDB, etc

I doubt even 50% of those might make it in for 1.2, but only a few would be nice to see :)