How to upgrade django?

Question

My project was running on Django 1.5.4 and I wanted to upgrade it. I did pip install -U -I django and now pip freeze shows Django 1.6.5 (clearly django has upgraded, I'm in virtualenv) but my project is still using Django 1.5.4. How can I use the upgraded version?

UPDATE: Thanks for your comments. I tried everything but unfortunately nothing worked and I had to re-deploy the app.

Hope someone explains why this happened.

Answer 1

You can use --upgrade with the pip command to upgrade Python packages.

pip install --upgrade django==3.3.1

Answer 2

I use this command for upgrading any package using pip:

pip install <package-name> --upgrade 

Example: pip install django --upgrade

you need to use the --upgrade or -U flag for upgrading.

Alternatively, you can use python -m pip install -U Django.

Answer 3

1. Use this command to get all available Django versions: yolk -V django
2. Type pip install -U Django for latest version, or if you want to specify version then use pip install --upgrade django==1.6.5

NOTE: Make sure you test locally with the updated version of Django before updating production.

Answer 4

You can use pip install -U django. It will update to the current stable version. Read official documentation on Django Docs

Answer 5

with python 3.7 try:

sudo pip3 install --upgrade django==2.2.6

Because using the following:

pip3 install -U django

or with python 2.7 if you like to keep that old python:

pip install -U django

Only gives you the older version of django (1.11.xx instead of 2.2.6)