This series of Django releases was supported from 2017-12-02 to 2019-04-01.

Release Highlights

• Dropped support for Python 2.7
• Last version to support Python 3.4.x
• New simplified URL routing with path()
• Mobile/Responsive support for the Django admin
• Dropped support for Oracle 11.2

Upgrade Gotchas

• MySQL backend transaction isolation is now “read committed”
• django.forms.extras package was removed
• Old style Django middleware are no longer supported
• django.db.models.Field._get_val_from_obj() replaced with Field.value_from_object()
• With Python 2.7 support dropped, support for bytestrings has been removed in some places
• Many features deprecated in Django 1.9 & 1.10 were removed in Django 2.0