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> the major feature in this release is schema migration

And I think a lot of people aren't commenting about that because it's not "new" per se and is done well by South.

I am wondering what the real difference will be in day to day use? Other than the "south" line in installed apps, it sounds like it will be very similar.

As I understand it, the new migrations module is more fully featured than south: eg, it intelligently squashes/flattens migrations together to avoid redundancy when you run the migrations (say you create a model in migration 1, and remove it in migration 3 after changing approach, the whole operation will be skipped).[0] This will speed things up if you have a lot of migrations to run.

I think I heard that some of this stuff will be backported to South for those of us stuck on 1.5/1.6, however.

[0] http://www.aeracode.org/2013/10/23/flat-pancake/

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