sarahboyce

30% of Django developers upgrade every LTS release[1]. As Django 3.2 runs out of support in April this year[2], it's worth celebrating Adam Johnson's package django-upgrade (https://github.com/adamchainz/django-upgrade) which has a set of fixers to automatically update your Django code to the version of your choice.

Curious if anyone has used 2to3 (https://docs.python.org/3/library/2to3.html) for upgrading Python code and can share their experience with it? Would you recommend?

1. https://lp.jetbrains.com/django-developer-survey-2022/

2. https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions

The release process is time-based as to roughly every 8 months[1] with X.0, X.1, and X.2 (LTS). This is mostly to communicate which release has long term support.

The deprecation policy[2] is taken very seriously and Django doesn't opt to break things if it can.

Recently there was a very interesting discussion[3] between the Fellows as to whether the version numbering is confusing as this doesn't follow the same pattern as other libraries.

1: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/release-proc...

2: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/release-proc...

3: https://fosstodon.org/@carlton/111300877531721385

Release notes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/releases/5.0/

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