Related to #6412. For 3.10 we may just want to bump the required markdown version. (?)

Agreed - markdown 2.2 dates to 2012, and 2.5 to 2014. I don't think we need to support versions that outdated.

Ok satisfied the linter, happy if you want to stop supporting old versions otherwise feel free to approve and merge my commit to avoid the warning

I had a look at requiring markdown>2.6 but markdown is only an optional extra not a requirement so you can't add a requirements markdown>=2.6 that I can see, the option would be to alter the documentation to hint markdown >= 2.6 was required and perhaps add a warning for lower markdown versions or raise an exception or simply refuse processing markdown if the library is too low. None seem great options, I think the current PR might be the lesser evil.

I made an alternative at https://github.com/timgates42/django-rest-framework/commit/64b311a8163b66a4527d2f02b8efb5adec30b745 which adjusts the documentation and drops support but not sure I like it

@timgates42 let's go with https://github.com/timgates42/django-rest-framework/commit/64b311a8163b66a4527d2f02b8efb5adec30b745, although I would remove the version change from rest_framework.__init__

Thanks @rpkilby adjusted accordingly.

Thanks @timgates42!

Your welcome @rpkilby thanks for helping me get this in and get rid of the deprecation warning.

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