Django 1.8 released

According to the official Django blog , on April 1, 2015, a new version of Django was released - 1.8. This version will have Long-Term Support for at least three more years.

Of the interesting innovations -

• built-in support for different template engines (API is defined and built-in support for Jinja2 is added);
• support for complex SQL statements in ORM, including if - then - else expressions;
• API defined for Model._meta;
• New PostgreSQL-specific functionality added to contrib.postgres.

See release notes for more information on the release .

With this release, support for Django 1.6 ends.
For Django 1.7, they will release security updates until the release of Django 1.9, scheduled for October 2015.
The previous long-term version, Django 1.4, will receive security updates until October 1, 2015.