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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.
All Channels projects currently support Python 3.8 and up. channels is
compatible with Django 4.2 and 5.0.
To learn more about contributing, please read our contributing docs <https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html>_.
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!
The Channels project is made up of several packages; the others are:
Daphne <https://github.com/django/daphne/>_, the HTTP and Websocket termination serverchannels_redis <https://github.com/django/channels_redis/>_, the Redis channel backendasgiref <https://github.com/django/asgiref/>_, the base ASGI library/memory backendFAQs
Brings async, event-driven capabilities to Django.
We found that channels demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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