Django 1.8 is the last version to support Python 3.2. Python 3.2 is scheduled to be end of life at February 2016 [1] while Django 1.8 is scheduled to be supported until April 2018. The latest security release for the 3.2 series, Python 3.2.6 contained a regression that causes 30 admin test failures in the Django test suite related to parsing of httponly cookies. I'm not sure if this problem is limited to the test client or if it has the potential to cause problems in a web server context (if anyone is using Python 3.2.6, I'd be interested to know). I submitted a patch to Python to correct the issue [2], but it appears unlikely that the patch will be applied along with a new release (no response from Python 3.2 release manager in 1 year).
Due to the test failures, we cannot run the Django test suite with Python 3.2 on the Ubuntu 14.04 CI machines which use the deadsnakes PPA [3] to install the latest version of Python (3.2.6). Therefore the tests are limited to running on our one remaining Ubuntu 12.04 CI machine which includes Python 3.2.3 (deadsnakes doesn't bundle versions of Python that would override the one included by the distribution). Support for Ubuntu 12.04 ends April 2017, so we shouldn't keep that machine longer than that. Options: 1. Drop Python 3.2 support for Django 1.8 sometime before Django 1.8 EOL 2. Keep Python 3.2 support until Django 1.8 EOL: a. Don't worry about CI support and rely on local testing of security fixes (we had the same situation with Django 1.4 and Python 2.5) b. Install the latest non-broken Python 3.2 release (3.2.5) "manually" (without using deadsnakes) on the newer CI servers 3. Your idea Thanks for your feedback! [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0392/ [2] https://bugs.python.org/issue22758 [3] https://launchpad.net/~fkrull/+archive/ubuntu/deadsnakes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/34dd15c4-dba5-46fe-9ac0-6d5a426db2df%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
