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Django-Jython 1.1.0 released. Django on Jython matches its minor version numbers to Django, so this new release is compatible with Django 1.1.

# 16th December 2009, 10:42 pm / django, python, jython, leosoto

Django-Jython 1.0.0 released! Now with database backends for PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL. The next release (planned for next month) should provide full compatibility with Django 1.1—the current release has 1.1 support for PostgreSQL but only 1.0 support for the other two databases.

# 9th November 2009, 1:53 pm / oracle, mysql, postgresql, django, jython, python, leosoto

Frank Wierzbicki: Leaving Sun. Frank performed miracles at Sun and before, helping bring the Jython project out of stasis and turning it in to an active, community maintained modern Python implementation. If you’re looking for an expert Python/Java/Dynamic languages guy you should snap him up.

# 4th November 2009, 10:33 pm / sun, jython, python, java, frank-wierzbicki

Jython 2.5.0 Final is out! It’s been a long time coming—congratulations to the team.

# 16th June 2009, 11:21 pm / jython, python, java

Django 1.0 alpha 2 release notes (via) The last preview release before the 1.0 beta. Big new features are GeoDjango, pluggable file storage (which went in earlier today) and Jython compatibility. The beta is scheduled for August 14th.

# 8th August 2008, 11:57 pm / django, alpha, geodjango, jython

Jython’s Future Looking Sunny. Sun have (finally) invested in Jython, hiring lead maintainer Frank Wierzbicki. They’ve also hired Ted Leung to “represent the wider world of Python at Sun”. Great news.

# 3rd March 2008, 4:08 pm / python, jython, sun, ted-leung, frank-wierzbicki

Python Web Framework on the JVM. An update on both Jython and the Django on Jython project—it looks like Jython 2.5 isn’t that far away.

# 30th January 2008, 2:06 am / django, python, jython, java, jvm

Django on Jython (via) Outstanding work from Jim Baker and the Jython team: Django now runs on the modern branch of Jython, with a couple of patches and some failed doctests due to dictionary order (a problem with Django’s test suite).

# 4th January 2008, 12:35 pm / django, jython, unittests, doctest

The Rubinius Sprint. Sun are throwing a ton of resources at Ruby, because as Tim Bray says, “it’s not fast enough”. Imagine where they’d be if they’d invested this kind of support in Jython five years ago...

# 21st September 2007, 11:32 pm / sourgrapes, python, jython, ruby, sun, tim-bray, rubinius, open-source, java

Django on Jython: What I’ve done until now. It’s not quite there yet (the new Jython is Python 2.2 with a few 2.3 features; Django requires 2.3 at least) but it’s looking pretty promising.

# 4th September 2007, 2:53 am / django, python, jython, java

Java SE 6 Released. “Script engines” (like JavaScript, Jython and JRuby) become a first class citizen.

# 12th December 2006, 8:48 am / javascript, jython, jruby, java

Frank Wierzbick: I now work for Red Hat (via) Includes news of Jython progress: slots support is in, which hopefully is a solid step towards Python 2.3 compatibility.

# 27th November 2006, 8:03 pm / jython

Java Is Free. GPL2 no less. Getting Jython up to speed is now even more important.

# 13th November 2006, 7:35 am / jython

Jython changelog. Plenty of signs of life here.

# 25th September 2006, 2:51 pm / jython

Introduction to Jython. Short but sweet; covers the essentials nicely.

# 22nd February 2005, 9:25 pm / jython

Jython road map. On the new Jython wiki.

# 13th February 2005, 7:29 pm / jython

Jython. Tim Bray gets excited about Jython, and says nice things about Python in the process.

# 4th May 2004, 7:22 am / tim-bray, jython