Django Channels

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

Documentation, installation and getting started instructions are athttps://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 intherelease notes.

Support can be obtained through several locations - see oursupport docs for more.

You can install channels from PyPI as thechannels package.See ourinstallationandtutorial docs for more.

Dependencies

All Channels projects currently support Python 3.7 and up.channels iscompatible with Django 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2.

Contributing

To learn more about contributing, pleaseread our contributing docs.

Maintenance and Security

To report security issues, please contactsecurity@djangoproject.com. For GPGsignatures and more security process information, seehttps://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/security/.

To report bugs or request new features, please open a new GitHub issue. Forlarger discussions, please post to thedjango-developers mailing list.

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

If you are interested in joining the maintenance team, pleaseread more about contributingand get in touch!

Other Projects

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

• Daphne, the HTTP and Websocket termination server
• channels_redis, the Redis channel backend
• asgiref, the base ASGI library/memory backend