Comment by bryanh

Release notes here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.4/

Some things to really dig:

    * better password hashing (bcrypt, etc...)
    * time zone support
    * built in selenium testing support
    * bulk insert Models
    * prefetch_related() (efficiently join m2m)
    * SELECT FOR UPDATE support
    * easy signing of cookies
    * better project templates (basic scaffolding)

There are lots more... big release. Thanks to the all folks behind it.