This series of Django releases was supported from 2019-12-02 to 2021-04-01.

Release Highlights

• The main highlight of this release is the ASGI support this will help lead the way to a fully async version of Django in the near future.

• This release also now supports MariaDB 10.1 and higher.

• Note that this version supports Python versions 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9 (as of Django 3.0.11). If you’re not already using one of these versions anyway for other reasons you’re missing out!

  • Python 3.5 support has been dropped.

Upgrade Gotchas

• One gotcha that will bite many people is this release removes the django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2 module entirely so you’re finally forced to change your backend database setting to be django.db.backends.postgresql.

• Another that might trip you up is that {% load staticfiles %} now needs to be {% load static %} previously both were supported, but this version removes the staticfiles version entirely.

• Support for PostgreSQL 9.4 and Oracle 12.1 has been removed.

• Many private Python 2 compatibility APIs were also removed.