Hi, According to https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/internals/release-process/#supported-versions, it appears that when Django 1.8 is released, Django 1.6 will no longer receive security updates. I wanted to verify that this is true, and ask whether there's a possibility of an extension on this timeframe.
I'll explain the situation we're in. I manage Review Board, a code review tool currently in use by several thousand companies/organizations, many of whom (according to stats we have available) are on Python 2.6. From conversations we've had, many of these companies are on LTS releases of Linux distributions that bundle Python 2.6 by default (including their mod_wsgi support, etc.), and are likely to remain on it for the next year or two. Not to mention Amazon Linux and other variants are all sticking with 2.6 for now as well. This puts us in a difficult position where we are unable to drop Python 2.6 support without affecting a large number of installs out there (12% of our base, or over 700 installs), meaning we haven't yet been able to make the transition to Django 1.7/1.8 (as much as we want it). (It also makes the lives of packagers easier who are trying to support software stuck in this situation, from what I'm being told, as they're responsible for security updates.) As Django 1.6 is the last release to support Python 2.6, it would be very nice to have a longer-term security release plan while companies transition over. We see this happening, but slowly. Is there any possibility of treating Django 1.6 as a special LTS release? Thanks for considering :) Christian -- Christian Hammond Review Board - https://www.reviewboard.org Beanbag, Inc. - https://www.beanbaginc.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/1acdd537-26a3-456b-98a9-83db1085234f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
