Why Digital Ocean is still using old Django version 1.6?

Posted January 3, 2015

Just created an account and discovered that DO is using old Django. I consider leaving Digital Ocean because of this.

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PabloAssembler • April 20, 2015

@HHH , how did you upgraded django ? I’m thinking about using python 3 with it.

Andrew SB • January 6, 2015

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!

Akila Baghadur • January 4, 2015

how do you found out that DO uses old django? and why is it matter?

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