Django 3.0 web framework released
On 3rd December 2019, Django released its latest major update – Django 3.0. Django is a Python-based web framework designed to help developers build apps faster with less code. Django 3.0 now comes with built-in async functionality, Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 support and third-party library support for the older version of Django. New features in Django 3.0 MariaDB support Django now officially supports MariaDB 10.1 and higher. To use MariaDB you should use the MySQL backend, which is shared between the two. ASGI support for async programming Django 3.0 provides support for running as an ASGI application, making Django fully async-capable (Django already has existing WSGI support). However, async features will only be available to applications that run under ASGI. As a side-effect of this change, Django is now aware of asynchronous event loops and will block you calling code marked as “async unsafe” – such as ORM operations – from an asynchronous context. This was o