Is it a bad idea to start a project using Django 1.7 at this moment?

[Tahmid Khan]

Hey guys, I am starting work on a website and I was thinking if starting with Django 1.7 is a bad idea or not, since 1.9 is out right now. With 1.7, I feel like hosting will be less of a headache.

[Tim Graham]

Yes, it's a bad idea. Django 1.7 is unsupported and no longer receives security updates. Please use at least the Django 1.8 series (the latest is 1.8.8 as of now) which is a long-term support release and will receive security updates until April 2018 as described at https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions.

I'd be curious to hear under what circumstances using the latest version of Django will cause headaches for hosting. It really shouldn't affect any hosting providers as far as I know.

[Tahmid Khan]

Just a general lack of tutorials properly explaining everything I would say. Though I could be wrong as I dont have that much experience. Hosting in general just makes me sick.

[Derek]

"Explaining everything" is too much of a generalisation to be a useful criticism.  Django has been built incrementally, with a high degree of backwards-compatibility, so many older tutorials will still be valid.  The docs are *always* up-to-date and highlight clearly where new features have been added.  If you want a more tutorial-like approach, that also covers the latest features, then look no further than "Two Scoops of Django" (https://www.twoscoopspress.com/)

[Gary Roach]

Do I detect someone using Tango With Rango as a tutorial. I agree that, for me, it made more sense than the other tutorials. I tried most of them. To bad that he hasn't updated to 1.8 and python 3 . I solved the problem by setting up a virtual environment using python 2.7 and django 1.7.11 for the tutorial and another one using django 1.8 and python 3.4 for the actual project. This works for me.

Gary R

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