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Django 4.2 Released: New Features and Long-Term Support Neeraj Mishra The Crazy Programmer

The Django team has recently announced about Django 4.2 release as a long-term support (LTS) version that will receive data loss and security fixes for the upcoming 3 years. New Features According to the official news , Django 4.2 includes various new features, including: Support for psycopg version 3 Ability to add comments on columns and tables Support for asynchronous streaming responses and async interfaces for related managers and models. LTS Support As an LTS release, Django 4.2 will receive fixes for crashing bugs, major functionality bugs, and regressions from older versions of Django for the next eight months until December 2023. End of Support for Django 4.1 and 4.0 After the release of the new version, Django 4.1 will not get mainstream support. Users of this version are advised to upgrade to Django 4.2 to receive security fixes. However, Django 4.1 will continue to receive data loss and security fixes till Dec 2023. It’s also important to note that the extended