Django: check version support with norwegianblue

Django projects end up slotting into a bunch of software release cycles: Django itself, Python, database servers, cache servers, and more. It can be hard for us developers to keep track of all of them, with their different support policies and end-of-life dates, and running an unsupported version means missing out on important security or bug fixes. norwegianblue is a handy command-line tool for checking software support dates. It fetches data from endoflife.date, a community-maintained database of release cycles for hundreds of products, and displays it as a colour-coded table. It’s from Hugo van Kemenade, the Python 3.14 and 3.15 release manager, and named after the deceased parrot from Monty Python’s infamous Dead Parrot sketch. Let’s look at checking the release cycles for Django, Python, PostgreSQL, and other relevant tools with it. Install it norwegianblue provides two commands: norwegianblue and the shorter alias eol. I recommend the alias, since it’s easier to type and…