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| author | James Bennett <ubernostrum@gmail.com> | 2012-02-16 04:01:58 +0000 |
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| committer | James Bennett <ubernostrum@gmail.com> | 2012-02-16 04:01:58 +0000 |
| commit | 50c64ed37966699e49d475202bbe1d5049471f46 (patch) | |
| tree | 861cf9c248f98a83505816f1aafcfd18d1985f69 /docs | |
| parent | 46671e9b6856be277cd7a82053faae8633ac7ea7 (diff) | |
Accommodate new version numbering scheme.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@17532 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.4-beta-1.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.4-beta-1.txt b/docs/releases/1.4-beta-1.txt index 60aae3c6d5..6b65c2c5a4 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.4-beta-1.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.4-beta-1.txt @@ -24,6 +24,23 @@ and we've `begun the deprecation process for some features`_. .. _backwards incompatible changes: `Backwards incompatible changes in 1.4`_ .. _begun the deprecation process for some features: `Features deprecated in 1.4`_ + +Version numbering +================= + +Internally, Django's version number is represented by the tuple +``django.VERSION``. This is used to generate human-readable version +number strings; as of Django 1.4 beta 1, the algorithm for generating +these strings has been changed to match the recommendations of `PEP +386 <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0386/>`. This only affects the +human-readable strings identifying Django alphas, betas and release +candidates, and should not affect end users in any way. + +For example purposes, the old algorithm would give Django 1.4 beta 1 a +version string of the form "1.4 beta 1". The new algorithm generates +the version string "1.4b1". + + Python compatibility ==================== |