Django: release code words up to 6.1

Did you know that each Django release has a “code word” associated with it? It’s hidden in plain sight, in the announcement blog post describing the list of features coming in the next version. I think this is a lovely little tradition. I last covered the list back in 2021, for Django 3.2 (post). This post expands the table up until Django 6.1, which is expected next month (the first release candidate came out earlier this week). Each code word links to its Wiktionary entry so you can see the definition. The word frequency column is based on the English data in the wordfreq Python package, as occurrences per billion words, so higher numbers mean the word is more common. Version Post author Quote with code word highlighted Word frequency(per billion words) 1.7 James Bennett ...will bring several major new features to Django, along with a host of other improvements... 58,900 1.8 Tim Graham ...several major new features and a cornucopia of other improvements... 363 1.9 Tim Graham ...…