What I found was that many third-party apps did not (yet) seem to support 1.11. So a move to 1.10 was most pragmatic for us, with the assumption that migrating to 1.11 would be straightforward in about a year or so. And, yes, work in Python 3 unless a very good reason not to.
> Thanks Andreas, > > Looking at the docs its seems upgrading to 1.11 LTS would give us the > longest > future in terms of updates. Is there any reason we should consider 1.10 > over 1.11? > > Thanks > > > On 5/16/2017 3:11 PM, Andréas Kühne wrote: > > I upgraded from 1.3 to 1.5. That was the hard part I think. We are > > currently running version 1.10 and the updates to that version have > > been without a problem. That being said - it all depends on what your > > application does. If you do a lot of things that are specific for your > > application. The main problems I had was with changing to class based > > views for certain functions. > > > > Also - you should really be upgrading to a supported LTS version > > regardless of what management thinks is necessary. The problem here > > isn't the time it takes to do the upgrade, but the things that are > > excluded by running an older version of django. Updates to django come > > on a regular basis and only come for the supported versions (right now > > 1.10 and 1.11). You REALLY don't want to run an old version of django > > because of security exploits. > > > > Regards, > > > > Andréas > > > > 2017-05-16 14:28 GMT+02:00 Mike Dewhirst <mi...@dewhirst.com.au > <javascript:> > > <mailto:mi...@dewhirst.com.au <javascript:>>>: > > > > Go from 1.6 to 1.8.18 which is still supported and is easy. Buy > > some time. Actually all the upgrades are easy. Well up to 1.10. I > > skipped 1.9 and haven't tried to go to 1.11. > > > > Good luck > > > > /Connected by Motorola/ > > > > > > NoviceSortOf <dljons...@gmail.com <javascript:> > > <mailto:dljons...@gmail.com <javascript:>>> wrote: > > > > > > It's said here 1.11 is the recommended version of Django. > > > > Our upgrade from 1.1 to 1.6 took much more time that expected, > > and management does not want to upgrade again. 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