Complete Django History | Python

Prerequisite – When to Use Django ? Comparison with other Development Stacks

Django was design and developed by Lawrence journal world in 2003 and publicly released under BSD license in July 2005. Currently, DSF (Django Software Foundation) maintains its development and release cycle.

Django was released on 21, July 2005. Its current stable version is 2.2.5 which was released April 1, 2019.

The latest official version is 2.2.5 (LTS). Read the 2.2.5 release notes, then install it with pip:

pip install Django==2.2.5

As part of the Django 3.0 development process, Django 3.0a1 is available. This release is only for users who want to try the new version and help identify remaining bugs before the 3.0 release. Please read the 3.0 release notes before using this package.

Install the alpha with pip:

pip install --pre django

Complete History of Django

Version	Date	Description
0.90	16 Nov 2005
0.91	11 Jan 2006	magic removal
0.96	23 Mar 2007	newforms, testing tools
1.0	3 Sep 2008	API stability, decoupled admin, unicode
1.1	29 Jul 2009	Aggregates, transaction based tests
1.2	17 May 2010	Multiple db connections, CSRF, model validation
1.3	23 Mar 2011	Timezones, in browser testing, app templates.
1.5	26 Feb 2013	Python 3 Support, configurable user model
1.6	6 Nov 2013	Dedicated to Malcolm Tredinnick, db transaction management, connection pooling.
1.7	2 Sep 2014	Migrations, application loading and configuration.
1.8 LTS	2 Sep 2014	Migrations, application loading and configuration.
1.8 LTS	1 Apr 2015	Native support for multiple template engines.Supported until at least April 2018
1.9	1 Dec 2015	Automatic password validation. New styling for admin interface.
1.10	1 Aug 2016	Full text search for PostgreSQL. New-style middleware.
1.11 LTS	1.11 LTS	Last version to support Python 2.7.Supported until at least April 2020
2.0	Dec 2017	First Python 3-only release, Simplified URL routing syntax, Mobile friendly admin.