I'm so glad to see Django inching closer to a real release. Their last release (0.96) is woefully old, so the only choice most developers have is to pick a random SVN trunk revision and develop against that. Deploying an SVN Head build of anything to production is just plain scary.

Django has a much different culture in regards to releases. It just takes a little getting used to. In Django-land, sticking with the .96 release is what's plain scary.

They release, bugfix and update very frequently. They just don't bother to make a big deal about packaging individual releases. From what I understand, most production web sites are using Django's latest trunk svn release, not some "random trunk revision". Almost all of the documentation reflects the changes in the latest svn release.