Hello everyone! The edX team has been hard at work upgrading Open edX to use Django 1.8 instead of 1.4. This change just landed on edx.org, and since things seem to be stable there, we're going to merge the change back to master today. Here's what you need to know.
- If you are using an Open edX release, this change will NOT affect you until you upgrade to Dogwood. You can stop reading now. (Dogwood will be the next Open edX release after Cypress, and it has not been cut yet.)
- Django 1.8 does some things differently from Django 1.4. If you are doing any development on the Open edX platform, please review the upgrade release notes that the edX team has put together: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TNL/Django+1.8+Upgrade+Release+Notes
- The edX team has put a lot of effort into researching the best way to upgrade everyone's devstacks, and has found that the best way forward is to build a new devstack. A new image has been built to support both Django 1.8 and python 2.7.10. Today we will merge Dja