..  crate_anon/docs/source/misc/ancillary_tools.rst

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External dependencies
---------------------


CRATE uses:

Python packages
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- ``amqp``: https://amqp.readthedocs.io/
- ``arrow``: https://arrow.readthedocs.io/
- ``beautifulsoup4``: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/
- ``cardinal_pythonlib``: https://cardinalpythonlib.readthedocs.io/
- ``celery``: http://www.celeryproject.org/
- ``chardet``: https://chardet.readthedocs.io/
- ``CherryPy``: https://cherrypy.org/
- ``colorlog``: https://pypi.org/project/colorlog/
- ``distro``: https://distro.readthedocs.io/
- ``Django``: https://www.djangoproject.com/
- ``django-debug-toolbar``: https://django-debug-toolbar.readthedocs.io/
- ``django-extensions``: https://django-extensions.readthedocs.io/
- ``django-picklefield``: https://pypi.org/project/django-picklefield/
- ``django-sslserver``: https://github.com/teddziuba/django-sslserver
- ``flashtext``: https://flashtext.readthedocs.io/
- ``flower``: https://flower.readthedocs.io/
- ``gunicorn``: https://gunicorn.org/
- ``kombu``: http://docs.celeryproject.org/projects/kombu/
- ``openpyxl``: https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/
- ``pendulum``: https://pendulum.eustace.io/
- ``pdfkit``: https://pypi.org/project/pdfkit/
- ``prettytable``: https://pypi.org/project/PrettyTable/
- ``psutil``: https://psutil.readthedocs.io/
- ``Pygments``: http://pygments.org/
- ``pyparsing``: http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/pyparsing/web/index.html
- ``PyPDF2``: https://pythonhosted.org/PyPDF2/
- ``python-dateutil``: https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
- ``regex``: https://bitbucket.org/mrabarnett/mrab-regex
- ``semver``: https://pypi.org/project/semver/
- ``sortedcontainers``: http://www.grantjenks.com/docs/sortedcontainers/
- ``SQLAlchemy``: https://www.sqlalchemy.org/
- ``sqlparse``: https://sqlparse.readthedocs.io/
- ``typing``: https://pypi.org/project/typing/
- ``unidecode``: https://pypi.org/project/Unidecode/
- ``Werkzeug``: http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/
- ``xlrd``: https://xlrd.readthedocs.io/


.. _versions_of_software_etc_used_by_crate:

Versions of software etc. used by CRATE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+----------------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Name           | Version | Supported until                                            |
+================+=========+============================================================+
| Debian         |      11 | 2026-08-31;                                                |
| (Docker image) |         | https://wiki.debian.org/LTS                                |
+----------------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Django         |   5.2.x | 2028-04-30 (LTS);                                          |
|                |         | https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions |
+----------------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Python         |    3.10 | 2026-10-31                                                 |
+----------------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+
|                |    3.11 | 2027-10-31                                                 |
|                |         | https://devguide.python.org/versions/                      |
+----------------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| SQLAlchemy     |     2.0 | No scheduled date. 2.1 is still in development.            |
|                |         | https://www.sqlalchemy.org/download.html                   |
+----------------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+