[tragic]

As I understand it, the new migrations module is more fully featured than south: eg, it intelligently squashes/flattens migrations together to avoid redundancy when you run the migrations (say you create a model in migration 1, and remove it in migration 3 after changing approach, the whole operation will be skipped).[0] This will speed things up if you have a lot of migrations to run.

I think I heard that some of this stuff will be backported to South for those of us stuck on 1.5/1.6, however.

[0] http://www.aeracode.org/2013/10/23/flat-pancake/