This page is here to record notes on the major changes that need to be made to upgrade from Django 1.6 to 1.11. Django 1.6 was used in Review Board 2.5 and 3.0. Django 1.11 is used in Review Board 4.0.

If you're an extension author, the notes here will hopefully help you get your extension ready. We can also provide assistance as part of a Premium Support contract.

For a more detailed breakdown of changes, see:

Migrating to Django 1.11

Django Release Notes

Deprecations

• Django 1.7
• Django 1.8
• Django 1.9
• Django 1.10
• Django 1.11

Backward-incompatibilities

• Django 1.7
• Django 1.8
• Django 1.9
• Django 1.10
• Django 1.11

Features Removed

• Django 1.7
• Django 1.8
• Django 1.9
• Django 1.10
• Django 1.11 (None)

Important Notes for End-Users

• FastCGI support is gone. WSGI is now required as of Django 1.7.

Major Highlights

Imports

• Callers must import the Python importlib instead of django.utils.importlib.
• SortedDict is no longer available. Python's OrderedDict is to be used instead.

URLPatterns

• patterns is now gone. Replace patterns('...', ...) calls with a plain list.
• All URL pattern entries must use url().
• All URL pattern entries must use views directly instead of a string with the view name.