Django 6.0 beta 1 released
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Django 6.0 beta 1 released
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Re: Django 6.0 beta 1 released
#2Django 6.0 beta 1 is now available. It represents the second stage in the 6.0 release cycle and is an opportunity to try out the changes coming in Django 6.0.
Re: Django 6.0 beta 1 released
#3Incompatible with the default Ubuntu 22.04 LTS python version, just FYI (uses 3.10 whereas the minimum is now 3.12).
Re: Django 6.0 beta 1 released
#4Looks like Django 6 is getting an offical task system.
There’s no real world brokers or workers supported (at least built in), but still centralising around a standard interface might make things nicer than the celery tentacle monsters Django apps eventually tend to mutate into.
Re: Django 6.0 beta 1 released
#5Looks like Django 6 is getting an offical task system. There’s no real world brokers or workers supported (at least built in), but still centralising around a standard interface might make things nicer than the celery tentacle monsters Django apps eventually tend to mutate into.
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Re: Django 6.0 beta 1 released
#6I love Django - it's so boring and just works.
It is fairly LLM friendly, so it is dead easy to whip up an admin panel for something in an evening.
Re: Django 6.0 beta 1 released
#7Love me Django and excited about this release. It’s been quite a journey through the years. I started working with it a little before 1.0 and continue to do so. Nowadays as an independent consultant which gives me the ability to really help keep Django systems up to date.
Yes, there’s some rough edges. Like updating can be tricky sometimes, and performance relating to DB queries is a skill in itself, but in general it’s a great framework to build most web software out there.
Re: Django 6.0 beta 1 released
#8I love Django, and the new `tasks` framework to replace `celery` (/whatever processor you prefer) looks great.
I've only recently come back to it, and I do hope they continue to add more batteries to their "batteries included" framework over time. I was surprised just how much stuff I had to add to my little project that will require updating _outside_ the main framework, eg.:
* django-components for little template partials (I'm not sure the new partials feature is robust enough to replace this)
* django-(configurator,split-settings,pick-your-poison-here) for more robust settings management
* structlog for much better logging (feels like this should get baked into Python's stdlib...)
* debug-toolbar
* dj-database-url for parsing database URLs (should be baked in!)
* django-money
There's plenty of other deps that are less annoying/surprising (eg. Sentry, granian, Tailwind), but the set above feel like more or less like they should be baked in, and (to my mind) don't represent an inordinate amount of work to adopt.
Other than that, it's been a real pleasure coming back to it, and I'm excited for its continuation.
EDIT -- oh, and built-in static types, stubs and stubs-ext were a bit of a nightmare to get working well.
Re: Django 6.0 beta 1 released
#9Incompatible with the default Ubuntu 22.04 LTS python version, just FYI (uses 3.10 whereas the minimum is now 3.12).
Is this handled by uv or do you need to use deadsnakes ppa?
Re: Django 6.0 beta 1 released
#10Incompatible with the default Ubuntu 22.04 LTS python version, just FYI (uses 3.10 whereas the minimum is now 3.12).
Yes, that's pretty typical. I think there's a general assumption if you're using older python you'll probably stick to Django LTS 5.2 from this April which still supports Python 3.10.
They only drop python versions right after LTS (which is part of why they increase the major version at that point). https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/install/#what-pyth...
Also Django LTS 5.2 is supported a year longer than Ubuntu 22.04. (April 2028 vs April 2027)