Hello,
This timeline was discussed by the core team today at Django under the Hood and
approved.
The support period for Django 1.4 will extend for six months after the release
of Django 1.8.
The recommended way to migrate from 1.4 to 1.8 is to go through 1.5, 1.6, and
1.7. I encourage you to
Spot on, that's why I proposed a total feature freeze at alpha instead of
beta and becoming more conservative with backports earlier in the release
cycle. I hope that advertising 1.8 as the next LTS will help with getting
more testers earlier in the release cycle.
On Thursday, October 23, 2014
My impression from the 1.7 release schedule was that there were many
release blockers found in RC stage, and RC with known bugs released because
of three combined reasons:
* The release had a number of big new features, including app loading and
migrations.
* In alpha and beta stages, the tester
On Saturday, October 18, 2014 1:17:58 AM UTC+2, Josh Smeaton wrote:
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> I was thinking along the lines of a one page common upgrade issues that
> summarised the back-compat changes from the previous releases, separated
> under each release header.
>
We already have on page per release for tha
I didn't mean to imply jumping from 1.4 - 1.8 and then fixing all the
issues would be the best way forward. I was thinking along the lines of a
one page common upgrade issues that summarised the back-compat changes from
the previous releases, separated under each release header.
Anyways, this i
If you are upgrading from 1.4, I would recommend going step by step through
each intermediate Django version. I don't believe trying to upgrade
straight away to 1.8 would be easier. I'd encourage anyone on 1.4 to start
doing intermediate upgrades soon, so if there are still undetected
regressio
I was wondering when this discussion was going to happen - it's good to see
some dates finally proposed, thanks Tim.
The LTS proposal is a good one. It should give people enough time (6
months) to jump to the next LTS release. I also think that 1.8 should be a
good candidate for LTS. Migrations
I'd like to kickoff the discussion on the timetable and process for the 1.8
release. I am also volunteering to be the release manager.
First, a retrospective on the 1.7 release with planned release dates and
(actual):
Jan. 20: alpha (Jan. 22)
March 6: beta (March 20)
May 1: RC (June 26)
May 15:
