South 0.6 Release Candidate

After a long few months, during which I've increased my recommendations to run off trunk, South 0.6 is almost here.

This release contains a whole bunch of new features - more of which will be written up on the Release Notes page soon - but in the meantime, I've decided to adopt a more usual release process.

This means two things: First, I'm releasing a release candidate of South 0.6 for general testing and final critical-bug reporting; please see the Download page and follow the instructions to check out the 'stableish' tag, or if you already have a checkout please 'hg pull' and 'hg up' it.

The Git mirror is also, for once, up to date, and there's also a tar.gz available for those who don't fancy either DVCS.

The second change is that I'll actually maintain a stable branch from now on as well, much like Django. This means there will be a 0.6 branch for any fixes that are easy or trivial to backport, and in the unlikely case someone should manage to conceive of a security vulnerability in a migrations library fixes for that will go in too. This should hopefully mean you and your production servers can track a real release number and not miss out on bugfixes.

Note that a few of the planned features haven't made it into this release in time, but I felt I had to get something out there. My much-vaunted fixture migration didn't make it in, but introspection, the major feature, did.

Still, please, test the release! If things look good, I'll officially tag and release 0.6 early next week.

Posted 6th August 2009 in Python, Django, and South, with 5 comments