Status of 4.2 release blockers.

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Hi y’all :wave: ,

Time to kick off the release process for the next major release, Django 4.2! :tada:

The 4.2 feature freeze is scheduled (according to the roadmap) for January 16th. I’d like to release the alpha on the same day :crossed_fingers: .

4.2 is already full of new goodies :coin:, but we have two larger patches we want to finish reviewing:

Many thanks to contributors from all over the world :world_map: :green_heart:

Best,
Mariusz

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That’s great news!
With the included support for psycopg3, is there any advantages in going full async?

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Not immediately, but psycopg v3 provides async connections and cursors so it was necessary in the long run.

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Django 4.2a1 is out:

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Django 4.2b1 is out:

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so where would this put third-party packages like django-storages?

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django-storages will still work the same, it’s just the STORAGES setting that is a new way of pointing to your storage backends.

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Django 4.2rc1 is out:

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The release candidate stage marks the string freeze and the call for translators to submit translations.

We can’t find the release notes strings for version 4.2 on Transifex.

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Documentation translations for 4.2 will be available after the final release, this is the current workflow.

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Thanks for your clarification, based on that I proposed a change in the flow.