We're pleased to announce the release of Django 0.96 today; this
release involves cleanup and stabilization of features from the 0.95
release, along with some nice new features: an integrated testing
framework, the first release of the newforms library, and a ton of
useful improvements.

There are also a few backwards-incompatible changes, documented in the
release notes[1], but for most users this should be a simple and
painless upgrade. One particular change, however, bears mentioning
explicitly: users of MySQL who are relying on older versions of the
MySQLdb adapter will need to upgrade their copy of MySQLdb to at least
version 1.2.1p2 or switch to the new "mysql_old" backend until they
can upgrade. Check out the release notes for details on this and all
other backwards-incompatible changes.

The full release, as always, is available from the "download page on
djangoproject.com:
http://www.djangoproject.com/download/

A huge round of thanks is due to everyone who's reported bugs,
submitted patches, triaged tickets and helped out in countless other
ways; we'd never be able to do this without you :)

[1] http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/release_notes_0.96/

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