Django's Tasks Framework in Django 6.0

Using Django Getting Started
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There is lots of excitement about the new Django Tasks Framework coming in Django 6, but will there be any way to use it for background tasks when it launches? I can see that for the initial release it only includes the Immediate and Dummy backends, but neither of these can be used for background tasks (as far as I can tell?)

I’ve read Jake’s blog post and the Django docs, but I can’t quite figure out the initial use-case for this.

(please don’t take this negatively or as criticism - I’m stoked to see the progress!)

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I believe you still need to install django-tasks the third party package to get the database backend and worker to use the feature.

I believe this initial release is a stable API for other background task packages (eg Celery etc) to work against to provide a compatibility with this new API.

At least the above is my understanding. I will know more next week as I plan to upgrade a project to 6.0 to use tasks myself!