This series of Django releases was supported from 2020-08-04 to 2021-12-01.

Release Highlights

• Support for a fully asynchronous request path
  • Refer to Django’s Async support docs for more details
• models.JSONField and forms.JSONField are now available for all supported database backends
• Increased support for pathlib.Path
  • The settings.py generated by startproject now uses pathlib.Path instead of os.path for building filesystem paths
  • Multiple other settings or methods that use a file path now support pathlib.Path

Upgrade Gotchas

• If you’re using a third-party database backend, there are multiple changes you may need to make.
• Support for MariaDB 10.1 has ended. 10.2 and higher are supported
• contrib.admin no longer supports the legacy Internet Explorer
• Multiple compatibility imports have been removed
• Features deprecated in Django 2.2 have been removed