Run your tests against Django's main!

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Sage Abdullah - Run your tests against Django’s main! - Django London Meetup

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Django is known for its stability. The framework makes a strong commitment to API stability and forwards-compatibility, ensuring that developers can rely on it for building long-term, maintainable projects. A key aspect of this commitment involves extensive testing and structured releases—an area where testing by Django users can significantly enhance Django’s reliability. Here’s a closer look at how this works, and how you can contribute 🤝.

How Django stays stable

Django's stability is upheld through rigorous testing. As of Django 5.2, there are more than 18,000 tests run against all officially supported database backends, Python versions, and operating systems. Additionally, Django follows a well-structured deprecation policy, ensuring that public APIs are deprecated over at least two feature releases before being removed.

The feature release schedule is systematic and structured:

1. Active development happens on the main branch.
2. A stable branch (for example stable/5.2.x<...

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