By HHH
Just created an account and discovered that DO is using old Django. I consider leaving Digital Ocean because of this.
This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!
These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.
@HHH , how did you upgraded django ? I’m thinking about using python 3 with it.
Hi!
We currently use the default version of Django provided by Ubuntu in the Django One-Click image. Ubuntu 14.04 comes with version 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.4 This decision was made in order to make sure our users continuously receive security updates. While we could use virtualenv to install a more recent version on the image itself, users would need to manually update it to get newer releases. Using the Ubuntu packaged version, users receive stable backported security fixes when they update the rest of their system packages.
Though we’ve definitely seen a few requests for 1.7.x, so it is something we are considering.
Thanks for the feedback!
Become a contributor for community
Get paid to write technical tutorials and select a tech-focused charity to receive a matching donation.
DigitalOcean Documentation
Full documentation for every DigitalOcean product.
Resources for startups and AI-native businesses
The Wave has everything you need to know about building a business, from raising funding to marketing your product.
The developer cloud
Scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.
Start building today
From GPU-powered inference and Kubernetes to managed databases and storage, get everything you need to build, scale, and deploy intelligent applications.
