Django Channels

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Channels augments Django to bring WebSocket, long-poll HTTP, task offloading and other async support to your code, using familiar Django design patterns and a flexible underlying framework that lets you not only customize behaviours but also write support for your own protocols and needs.

Documentation, installation and getting started instructions are at https://channels.readthedocs.io

Channels is an official Django Project and as such has a deprecation policy. Details about what's deprecated or pending deprecation for each release is in the release notes <https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releases/index.html>_.

Support can be obtained through several locations - see our support docs <https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/support.html>_ for more.

You can install channels from PyPI as the channels package. See our installation <https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html>_ and tutorial <https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/index.html>_ docs for more.

Dependencies

All Channels projects currently support Python 3.9 and up. channels is compatible with Django 4.2+.

Contributing

To learn more about contributing, please read our contributing docs <https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html>_.

Maintenance and Security

To report security issues, please contact security@djangoproject.com. For GPG signatures and more security process information, see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/security/.

To report bugs or request new features, please open a new GitHub issue. For larger discussions, please post to the django-developers mailing list <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/django-developers>_.

Maintenance is overseen by Carlton Gibson with help from others. It is a best-effort basis - we unfortunately can only dedicate guaranteed time to fixing security holes.

If you are interested in joining the maintenance team, please read more about contributing <https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html>_ and get in touch!

Other Projects

The Channels project is made up of several packages; the others are:

• Daphne <https://github.com/django/daphne/>_, the HTTP and Websocket termination server
• channels_redis <https://github.com/django/channels_redis/>_, the Redis channel backend
• asgiref <https://github.com/django/asgiref/>_, the base ASGI library/memory backend