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22nd July 2008 - Link Blog

Django 1.0 alpha release notes. The big features are newforms-admin, unicode everywhere, the queryset-refactor ORM improvements and auto-escaping in templates.

Posted 22nd July 2008 at 6:04 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd July 2008.

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