Deprecation timeline

2.3.0 (TBR)

Dependencies

• Drop support for Python 3.9 and django~=4.2.0

Command-line

• The --scope and --algorithm parameters to manage.py dump_crl will be removed (deprecated since django-ca 2.1.0).

Settings

• The scope and encodings parameter to CA_CRL_PROFILES will be removed (deprecated since django-ca 2.1.0).

Python API

• The expires parameter to functions that create a certificate will be removed. Use not_after instead (deprecated since 2.1.0). The following functions are affected:

  • django_ca.models.CertificateAuthority.sign()

  • django_ca.models.CertificateAuthority.generate_ocsp_key()

  • django_ca.managers.CertificateAuthorityManager.init()

  • django_ca.managers.CertificateManager.create_cert()

  • django_ca.profiles.Profile.create_cert()

• The scope parameter to get_crl_cache_key() will be removed (deprecated since django-ca 2.1.0).

• django_ca.models.CertificateAuthority.get_crl_certs() and django_ca.models.CertificateAuthority.get_crl() will be removed (deprecated since django-ca 2.1.0).

Views

• The scope and include_issuing_distribution_point CertificateRevocationListView parameters will be removed (deprecated since 2.1.0).

2.2.0 (TBR)

Command-line

• Remove support for subjects in OpenSSL-style format (default switched in 2.0.0, deprecated since 1.27.0).

Settings

• Support for the old subject format in CA_DEFAULT_SUBJECT and subjects in profiles will be removed in 2.2.0 (deprecated since 1.29.0).

Python API

• django_ca.utils.get_storage() will be removed (deprecated since 2.0).

Dependencies

• Support django~=5.0.0, cryptography~=43.0, pydantic~=2.9.0 and acme~=2.9.0 will be dropped.

• Support for Ubuntu 20.04 and Alpine 3.18 will be dropped.