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Finally, Django 0.95 has been released (digg it here). Some of the new features and changes are:

• Django now uses a more consistent and natural filtering interface for retrieving objects from the database.
• User-defined models, functions and constants now appear in the module namespace they were defined in. (Previously everything was magically transferred to the django.models.* namespace.)
• Some optional applications, such as the FlatPage, Sites and Redirects apps, have been decoupled and moved into django.contrib. If you don’t want to use these applications, you no longer have to install their database tables.
• Django now has support for managing database transactions.
• We’ve added the ability to write custom authentication and authorization backends for authenticating users against alternate systems, such as LDAP.
• We’ve made it easier to add custom table-level functions to models, through a new “Manager” API.
• It’s now possible to use Django without a database.
• It’s now more explicit and natural to override save() and delete() methods on models, rather than needing to hook into the pre_save() and post_save() method hooks.
• Individual pieces of the framework now can be configured without requiring the setting of an environment variable. This permits use of, for example, the Django templating system inside other applications.
• More and more parts of the framework have been internationalized, as we’ve expanded internationalization (i18n) support. The Django codebase, including code and templates, has now been translated, at least in part, into 31 languages. From Arabic to Chinese to Hungarian to Welsh, it is now possible to use Django’s admin site in your native language.

You can also read the full release notes.