As the title says. With luck, we should be able to remove jingo when switching to 1.8.x. Cool features we could use include: - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.UUIDField - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/testing/tools/#django.test.TestCase.setUpTestData (which we already have because we cherry picked that) - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/instances/#django.db.models.Model.from_db - Improvements to custom lookups https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/custom-lookups/ that could help replace some of the magic in translations code - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/instances/#django.db.models.Model.refresh_from_db to replace our .reload() - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-option---keepdb And more, including lots of cleanups that should improve quality : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/releases/1.8/ Worth nothing that this is a LTS release.

The end of mainstream support for 1.7.x was April 2015. The end of extended support for 1.7.x is December 2015. We should probably get the 1.8.x upgrade on our radar since in 4 months it will no longer be supported. 1.8.x is a long-term support release and will be good at least until April 2018.

This makes me so sad. 1.7, you didn't even get 6 months.