[trun]

Time zone support! This has always been one of the most painful things to manage IMHO. Also this little gem caught my attention...

  * The if template tag now supports {% elif %} clauses.

[lightcatcher]

I've found using Jinja2 templates (http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/ ) is a lot easier than dealing with the Django template language. Django also makes switching template languages quite easy.

[jawr]

I believe Jinja2 is also a lot quicker, but the Django developers want to catch up.. so that's something.