diff --git a/ietf/dbtemplate/template.py b/ietf/dbtemplate/template.py
index f4276a9ef..dc29ff08b 100644
--- a/ietf/dbtemplate/template.py
+++ b/ietf/dbtemplate/template.py
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ from docutils.core import publish_string
 from docutils.utils import SystemMessage
 import debug                            # pyflakes:ignore
 
-from django.template.base import Template as DjangoTemplate, TemplateDoesNotExist, TemplateEncodingError
-from django.template.loader import BaseLoader
+from django.template import loaders
+from django.template.base import Template as DjangoTemplate, TemplateEncodingError
+from django.template.exceptions import TemplateDoesNotExist
 from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
 
 from ietf.dbtemplate.models import DBTemplate
@@ -60,9 +61,9 @@ class RSTTemplate(PlainTemplate):
             e.args = tuple(args)
             raise e
 
-class Loader(BaseLoader):
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        super(Loader, self).__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+class Loader(loaders.base.Loader):
+    def __init__(self, engine):
+        super(Loader, self).__init__(engine)
         self.is_usable = True
 
     def load_template(self, template_name, template_dirs=None):
@@ -77,7 +78,7 @@ class Loader(BaseLoader):
             raise TemplateDoesNotExist(template_name)
 
 
-_loader = Loader()
+_loader = Loader(engine='django')
 
 
 def load_template_source(template_name, template_dirs=None):
diff --git a/ietf/settings.py b/ietf/settings.py
index f82887165..4607f2372 100644
--- a/ietf/settings.py
+++ b/ietf/settings.py
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ warnings.simplefilter("always", DeprecationWarning)
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message="Report.file_reporters will no longer be available in Coverage.py 4.2", module="coverage.report")
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message="initial_data fixtures are deprecated. Use data migrations instead.", module="django.core.management.commands.loaddata")
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message="The popen2 module is deprecated.  Use the subprocess module.", module="ietf.utils.pipe")
+warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message="Reversing by dotted path is deprecated")
+warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message=r"Support for string view arguments to url\(\) is deprecated and will be removed in Django 1.10")
 
 try:
     import syslog
diff --git a/ietf/settings_sqlitetest.py b/ietf/settings_sqlitetest.py
index 5a9a10e31..149d896c6 100644
--- a/ietf/settings_sqlitetest.py
+++ b/ietf/settings_sqlitetest.py
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ debug.debug = True
 
 ## To be removed after upgrade to Django 1.8 ##
 
-from django.db.migrations.loader import MIGRATIONS_MODULE_NAME
 class DisableMigrations(object):
  
     def __contains__(self, item):
         return True
  
     def __getitem__(self, item):
+        from django.db.migrations.loader import MIGRATIONS_MODULE_NAME
         # The string below is significant.  It has to include the value of
         # django.db.migrations.loader.MIGRATIONS_MODULE_NAME.  Used by django
         # 1.7 code in django.db.migrations.loader.MigrationLoader to
diff --git a/release-coverage.json.gz b/release-coverage.json.gz
index 295c039a7..e6f327a3e 100644
Binary files a/release-coverage.json.gz and b/release-coverage.json.gz differ
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 81b80afc3..e86c1e763 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ coverage>=4.0.1,!=4.0.2
 #cssselect>=0.6.1               # for PyQuery
 decorator>=3.4.0
 defusedxml>=0.4.1		# for TastyPie when ussing xml; not a declared dependency
-Django>=1.8.16,<1.9
+Django>=1.9,<1.10
 django-bootstrap3>=5.1.1,<7.0.0 # django-bootstrap 7.0 requires django 1.8
 django-formtools>=1.0		# instead of django.contrib.formtools in 1.8
 django-markup>=1.1
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ mock>=2.0.0
 MySQL-python>=1.2.5
 pathlib>=1.0
 Pillow>=3.0
-pip>=6.1.1,<9.0
 pyang>=1.6
 pyflakes>=0.8.1
 pyquery>=1.2.13,!=1.2.14	# Pyqyery 1.2.14 fails on some selectors or stacked selectors