That "somebody" would be me then. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. I saw "Latest Release: 1.6" on the djangoproject.com home page, checked if it was on PyPI already (it was), did a "pip install Django" and got 1.6. These together to me seemed to be a pretty good sign that 1.6 was released.
Will wait for the official release announcement next time. Sorry again.
Next time around we'll probably do more to hide things up until the announcement (though of course we can't hide the commits on github, and the download URLs are predictable, so someone who sees the commits will be able to figure out where the release is going to live).
ubernostrum|12 years ago