DEP 20 accepted: Django is moving to an annual release cycle starting January 2028 with Django 2028. Django 6.1 and 6.2 LTS are the final releases under the old cycle.

Django 1.3.x

Support ended 2013-02-26

This series of Django releases was supported from 2011-03-23 to 2013-02-26.

Major features

  • Class-based views
  • Adds staticfiles
  • Adds on_delete argument to ForeignKey and OneToOneField
  • Adds support for Python logging module
  • Uses vendored unittest2 for testcases

Upgrade Gotchas

  • CSRF validation is now applied to AJAX requests.
  • Support for Python 2.3 and below is dropped. Minimum version of Python is 2.4.
  • If you’re upgrading from something older than this, you should upgrade to at least the next LTS release. It will have more security and bug fixes because of the extended support period.

Supported Python Versions

  • Python 2.4
  • Python 2.5
  • Python 2.6
  • Python 2.7

Release Type

Released Versions

Version Release Date Release Type Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.3.7 2013-02-20
BUGFIX
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.3.6 2013-02-19
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.3.5 2012-12-10
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.3.4 2012-10-17
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.3.3 2012-08-01
BUGFIX
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.3.2 2012-07-30
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.3.1 2011-09-10
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.3 2011-03-23
RELEASE
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub

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