diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 2296b3fc4f..ea0085b136 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
     Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
     plisk
     Daniel Poelzleithner <http://poelzi.org/>
+    J. Rademaker
     Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
     Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
     David Schein
diff --git a/django/__init__.py b/django/__init__.py
index e69de29bb2..593e2f46e4 100644
--- a/django/__init__.py
+++ b/django/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+VERSION = (0, 9, 1, 'SVN')
diff --git a/django/contrib/admin/views/doc.py b/django/contrib/admin/views/doc.py
index acc478d31b..ddda5b270d 100644
--- a/django/contrib/admin/views/doc.py
+++ b/django/contrib/admin/views/doc.py
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ DATA_TYPE_MAPPING = {
     'PhoneNumberField'          : _('Phone number'),
     'PositiveIntegerField'      : _('Integer'),
     'PositiveSmallIntegerField' : _('Integer'),
-    'SlugField'                 : _('String (up to 50)'),
+    'SlugField'                 : _('String (up to %(maxlength)s)'),
     'SmallIntegerField'         : _('Integer'),
     'TextField'                 : _('Text'),
     'TimeField'                 : _('Time'),
diff --git a/django/contrib/admin/views/main.py b/django/contrib/admin/views/main.py
index e5abc2a2a0..86754b91c7 100644
--- a/django/contrib/admin/views/main.py
+++ b/django/contrib/admin/views/main.py
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ def _get_deleted_objects(deleted_objects, perms_needed, user, obj, opts, current
             if related.opts.admin and has_related_objs:
                 p = '%s.%s' % (related.opts.app_label, related.opts.get_delete_permission())
                 if not user.has_perm(p):
-                    perms_needed.add(rel_opts.verbose_name)
+                    perms_needed.add(rel_opts_name)
     for related in opts.get_all_related_many_to_many_objects():
         if related.opts in opts_seen:
             continue
diff --git a/django/core/management.py b/django/core/management.py
index d7349f265a..079674e6f5 100644
--- a/django/core/management.py
+++ b/django/core/management.py
@@ -64,6 +64,14 @@ def _is_valid_dir_name(s):
 # field as the field to which it points.
 get_rel_data_type = lambda f: (f.get_internal_type() in ('AutoField', 'PositiveIntegerField', 'PositiveSmallIntegerField')) and 'IntegerField' or f.get_internal_type()
 
+def get_version():
+    "Returns the version as a human-format string."
+    from django import VERSION
+    v = '.'.join([str(i) for i in VERSION[:-1]])
+    if VERSION[3]:
+        v += ' (%s)' % VERSION[3]
+    return v
+
 def get_sql_create(app):
     "Returns a list of the CREATE TABLE SQL statements for the given app."
     from django.db import backend, get_creation_module, models
@@ -821,8 +829,8 @@ class ModelErrorCollection:
 
 def get_validation_errors(outfile, app=None):
     """
-    Validates all models that are part of the specified app. If no app name is provided, 
-    validates all models of all installed apps. Writes errors, if any, to outfile. 
+    Validates all models that are part of the specified app. If no app name is provided,
+    validates all models of all installed apps. Writes errors, if any, to outfile.
     Returns number of errors.
     """
     from django.db import models
@@ -870,7 +878,7 @@ def get_validation_errors(outfile, app=None):
                 rel_opts = f.rel.to._meta
                 if f.rel.to not in models.get_models():
                      e.add(opts, "'%s' relates to uninstalled model %s" % (f.name, rel_opts.object_name))
-                                    
+
                 rel_name = RelatedObject(f.rel.to, cls, f).get_accessor_name()
                 for r in rel_opts.fields:
                     if r.name == rel_name:
@@ -879,12 +887,12 @@ def get_validation_errors(outfile, app=None):
                     if r.name == rel_name:
                         e.add(opts, "'%s' accessor name '%s.%s' clashes with a m2m field" % (f.name, rel_opts.object_name, r.name))
                 for r in rel_opts.get_all_related_many_to_many_objects():
-                    if r.get_accessor_name() == rel_name:                            
+                    if r.get_accessor_name() == rel_name:
                         e.add(opts, "'%s' accessor name '%s.%s' clashes with a related m2m field" % (f.name, rel_opts.object_name, r.get_accessor_name()))
                 for r in rel_opts.get_all_related_objects():
                     if r.get_accessor_name() == rel_name and r.field is not f:
                         e.add(opts, "'%s' accessor name '%s.%s' clashes with a related field" % (f.name, rel_opts.object_name, r.get_accessor_name()))
-                
+
         for i, f in enumerate(opts.many_to_many):
             # Check to see if the related m2m field will clash with any
             # existing fields, m2m fields, m2m related objects or related objects
@@ -900,7 +908,7 @@ def get_validation_errors(outfile, app=None):
                 if r.name == rel_name:
                     e.add(opts, "'%s' m2m accessor name '%s.%s' clashes with a m2m field" % (f.name, rel_opts.object_name, r.name))
             for r in rel_opts.get_all_related_many_to_many_objects():
-                if r.get_accessor_name() == rel_name and r.field is not f:                            
+                if r.get_accessor_name() == rel_name and r.field is not f:
                     e.add(opts, "'%s' m2m accessor name '%s.%s' clashes with a related m2m field" % (f.name, rel_opts.object_name, r.get_accessor_name()))
             for r in rel_opts.get_all_related_objects():
                 if r.get_accessor_name() == rel_name:
@@ -1119,7 +1127,7 @@ def print_error(msg, cmd):
 
 def execute_from_command_line(action_mapping=DEFAULT_ACTION_MAPPING):
     # Parse the command-line arguments. optparse handles the dirty work.
-    parser = DjangoOptionParser(get_usage(action_mapping))
+    parser = DjangoOptionParser(usage=get_usage(action_mapping), version=get_version())
     parser.add_option('--settings',
         help='Python path to settings module, e.g. "myproject.settings.main". If this isn\'t provided, the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable will be used.')
     parser.add_option('--pythonpath',
diff --git a/django/db/backends/ado_mssql/creation.py b/django/db/backends/ado_mssql/creation.py
index 493512f1fb..4d85d27ea5 100644
--- a/django/db/backends/ado_mssql/creation.py
+++ b/django/db/backends/ado_mssql/creation.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ DATA_TYPES = {
     'PhoneNumberField':  'varchar(20)',
     'PositiveIntegerField': 'int CONSTRAINT [CK_int_pos_%(column)s] CHECK ([%(column)s] > 0)',
     'PositiveSmallIntegerField': 'smallint CONSTRAINT [CK_smallint_pos_%(column)s] CHECK ([%(column)s] > 0)',
-    'SlugField':         'varchar(50)',
+    'SlugField':         'varchar(%(maxlength)s)',
     'SmallIntegerField': 'smallint',
     'TextField':         'text',
     'TimeField':         'time',
diff --git a/django/db/backends/mysql/creation.py b/django/db/backends/mysql/creation.py
index 4a29c18b13..f03758e3b2 100644
--- a/django/db/backends/mysql/creation.py
+++ b/django/db/backends/mysql/creation.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ DATA_TYPES = {
     'PhoneNumberField':  'varchar(20)',
     'PositiveIntegerField': 'integer UNSIGNED',
     'PositiveSmallIntegerField': 'smallint UNSIGNED',
-    'SlugField':         'varchar(50)',
+    'SlugField':         'varchar(%(maxlength)s)',
     'SmallIntegerField': 'smallint',
     'TextField':         'longtext',
     'TimeField':         'time',
diff --git a/django/db/backends/postgresql/creation.py b/django/db/backends/postgresql/creation.py
index accc383330..65a804ec40 100644
--- a/django/db/backends/postgresql/creation.py
+++ b/django/db/backends/postgresql/creation.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ DATA_TYPES = {
     'PhoneNumberField':  'varchar(20)',
     'PositiveIntegerField': 'integer CHECK ("%(column)s" >= 0)',
     'PositiveSmallIntegerField': 'smallint CHECK ("%(column)s" >= 0)',
-    'SlugField':         'varchar(50)',
+    'SlugField':         'varchar(%(maxlength)s)',
     'SmallIntegerField': 'smallint',
     'TextField':         'text',
     'TimeField':         'time',
diff --git a/django/db/backends/sqlite3/creation.py b/django/db/backends/sqlite3/creation.py
index 945ae0c477..e845179e64 100644
--- a/django/db/backends/sqlite3/creation.py
+++ b/django/db/backends/sqlite3/creation.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ DATA_TYPES = {
     'PhoneNumberField':             'varchar(20)',
     'PositiveIntegerField':         'integer unsigned',
     'PositiveSmallIntegerField':    'smallint unsigned',
-    'SlugField':                    'varchar(50)',
+    'SlugField':                    'varchar(%(maxlength)s)',
     'SmallIntegerField':            'smallint',
     'TextField':                    'text',
     'TimeField':                    'time',
diff --git a/docs/model-api.txt b/docs/model-api.txt
index 746f63f44f..02c39bb3ec 100644
--- a/docs/model-api.txt
+++ b/docs/model-api.txt
@@ -410,7 +410,11 @@ Here are all available field types:
     containing only letters, numbers, underscores or hyphens. They're generally
     used in URLs.
 
-    Implies ``maxlength=50`` and ``db_index=True``.
+    In the Django development version, you can specify ``maxlength``. If
+    ``maxlength`` is not specified, Django will use a default length of 50. In
+    previous Django versions, there's no way to override the length of 50.
+
+    Implies ``db_index=True``.
 
     Accepts an extra option, ``prepopulate_from``, which is a list of fields
     from which to auto-populate the slug, via JavaScript, in the object's admin