Setting Your Poetry Version

Poetry is a Python packaging and dependency manager. Poetry version 1.7.1 is the default for Render Python services created on or after 2023-11-30.

Specify a different Poetry version by setting your service’s POETRY_VERSION environment variable to any version number that’s compatible with your Python version.

History of default Poetry versions

If you don’t set a Poetry version for your service, Render’s default version depends on when you originally created the service:

Service Creation DateDefault Poetry Version
2023-11-30 and later1.7.1
2021-04-27 to 2023-11-301.1.x (various)
Before 2021-04-271.0.x (various)