If you decide to use the latest development version of Django, you'll want to pay close attention to the development timeline, and you'll want to keep an eye on the release notes for the upcoming release. This will help you stay on top of any new features you might want to use, as well as any changes you'll need to make to your code when updating your copy of Django. (For stable releases, any necessary changes are documented in the release notes.)
If you'd like to be able to update your Django code occasionally with the latest bug fixes and improvements, follow these instructions:
Make sure that you have Git installed and that you can run its commands from a shell. (Enter
git help
at a shell prompt to test this.)Check out Django's main development branch (the trunk or master) like so:
git clone git://github.com/django/django.git django-trunk
This will create a directory
django-trunk
in your current directory.Make sure that the Python interpreter...