This repo contains information about upgrading your Django application from Django 1.8 to Django 1.11, and from Django 1.11 to Django 2.2. Those are all long term support (LTS) releases.

Please also take a look at this YouTube Video for more information.

As an example application, we prepared a very basic ticket system, which allows creating aswell as editing tickets. Tickets have a title, a description, a state, and can be assigned to any number of users. Each user has their individual "My Tickets" page.

Each ticket can be commented on by users.

This example application makes use of Foreign Keys, Many-To-Many Fields, template tags, middlewares, views, etc... - a typical Django app.

for more information about the application (e.g., installation instructions), please take a look at docs/app.md.

Please take a look at the following branches:

• django18 - contains the app the way it used to be with Django 1.8
• django18_to_111 - contains all commits for upgrading from 1.8 to 1.11
• master - ongoing development

Of course, there are many features of Django that have changed over the years. But with this little example application we are trying to cover the most basic ones, especially those that will affect almost everybody.

As a good starting point, I recommend reading Upgrading Django on the official Django Project website. Other then that, I recommend reading the release notes of new Django releases. They usually have a section called Backwards incompatible changes as well as a section called Breaking changes (or Features removed).

Another good resource is the Django Deprecation Timeline, which contains several features that already have been deprecated, but also those that will be deprecated in the future.

It is recommended to only upgrade to the next LTS (Long Term Support) version of Django. Make sure to take a look at the Django Download Page for a good overview of which release has long term support.

See docs/upgrade_18_to_111.md.

As 2.2 has not been released, we will only cover preparations here.

Basically, what we can cover is upgrading from 1.11 to 2.0, which is written down in docs/upgrade_111_to_20.md.

See docs/docker.md for information about the docker setup.