Django 6.0 Alpha 1 Released
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Django 6.0 alpha 1 is released, introducing new features such as a built-in task framework, which has sparked excitement among developers who see it as a potential replacement for Celery.
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> Django’s new Tasks framework makes it easy to define and enqueue such work. It does not provide a worker mechanism to run Tasks. The actual execution must be handled by infrastructure outside Django, such as a separate process or service.
You'll likely still need an actual backend, task runner, cache implementation with a backend etc.
[1] https://github.com/django/django/blob/main/django/tasks/base... [2] https://github.com/django/django/blob/main/django/tasks/back...