<div dir="ltr">Hello Everyone,<br><br>As discussed at this weekly meeting[1] and Shanghai PTG[2], Horizon team is<br>going to bump default version of Django to the next LTS release which is 2.2.<br>Django 2.2 support is already added in Horizon and all its plugins [3].<br>Thanks to all for taking this at the priority and quick approvals on the patches.<br><br>After Switching the default version of Django to 2.2(latest LTS), We will drop <br>Django 1.11 in the next step(as its extended supports ending soon [4]). <div>Also, Horizon usually supports LTS version of Django[5].<br><br><br>Please find below plan for coming weeks:<br>Step 1: Switch the default version to Django 2.2 in upper-constraints till milestone-1.<br>Additionally, Due to these changes, there might be a possibility of potential risks.<br>Horizon and horizon plugins already support Django 2.2 as unit tests,<br>but they are not tested in the real deployments with Django 2.2.<br>So After switching the default version, if anything breaks we will keep working on fixing those issues.<br>Step 2: Drop Django 1.11 during milestone-2.<br><br>In case of any issue, please feel free to reach-out to Horizon channel #openstack-horizon.<br><br>[1] <a href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-meeting-alt/%23openstack-meeting-alt.2019-11-27.log.html#t2019-11-27T15:27:23">http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-meeting-alt/%23openstack-meeting-alt.2019-11-27.log.html#t2019-11-27T15:27:23</a><br>[2] <a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/horizon-u-ptg#45">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/horizon-u-ptg#45</a><br>[3] <a href="https://review.opendev.org/#/q/topic:django22+(status:open+OR+status:merged)">https://review.opendev.org/#/q/topic:django22+(status:open+OR+status:merged)</a><br>[4] <a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jun/25/roadmap/">https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jun/25/roadmap/</a><br>[5]<a href="https://docs.openstack.org/horizon/latest/contributor/policy.html#django-support">https://docs.openstack.org/horizon/latest/contributor/policy.html#django-support</a><br>[6] <a href="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/releases/2.2/">https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/releases/2.2/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>cheers,<br>Vishal Manchanda <br></div></div>