diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index bd194f7f3f..65d1af7105 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -732,6 +732,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
     Simon Meers <simon@simonmeers.com>
     Simon Williams
     Simon Willison <simon@simonwillison.net>
+    Sjoerd Job Postmus
     Slawek Mikula <slawek dot mikula at gmail dot com>
     sloonz <simon.lipp@insa-lyon.fr>
     smurf@smurf.noris.de
diff --git a/django/conf/project_template/project_name/urls.py-tpl b/django/conf/project_template/project_name/urls.py-tpl
index 30ddffb876..e23d6a92ba 100644
--- a/django/conf/project_template/project_name/urls.py-tpl
+++ b/django/conf/project_template/project_name/urls.py-tpl
@@ -5,17 +5,17 @@ The `urlpatterns` list routes URLs to views. For more information please see:
 Examples:
 Function views
     1. Add an import:  from my_app import views
-    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  url(r'^$', views.home, name='home')
+    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  path('', views.home, name='home')
 Class-based views
     1. Add an import:  from other_app.views import Home
-    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  url(r'^$', Home.as_view(), name='home')
+    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  path('', Home.as_view(), name='home')
 Including another URLconf
-    1. Import the include() function: from django.conf.urls import url, include
-    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls'))
+    1. Import the include() function: from django.urls import include, path
+    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  path('blog/', include('blog.urls'))
 """
-from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib import admin
+from django.urls import path
 
 urlpatterns = [
-    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
+    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
 ]
diff --git a/django/conf/urls/__init__.py b/django/conf/urls/__init__.py
index b7ad156122..7bda34516b 100644
--- a/django/conf/urls/__init__.py
+++ b/django/conf/urls/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from django.urls import RegexURLPattern, RegexURLResolver, include
+from django.urls import include, re_path
 from django.views import defaults
 
 __all__ = ['handler400', 'handler403', 'handler404', 'handler500', 'include', 'url']
@@ -10,11 +10,4 @@ handler500 = defaults.server_error
 
 
 def url(regex, view, kwargs=None, name=None):
-    if isinstance(view, (list, tuple)):
-        # For include(...) processing.
-        urlconf_module, app_name, namespace = view
-        return RegexURLResolver(regex, urlconf_module, kwargs, app_name=app_name, namespace=namespace)
-    elif callable(view):
-        return RegexURLPattern(regex, view, kwargs, name)
-    else:
-        raise TypeError('view must be a callable or a list/tuple in the case of include().')
+    return re_path(regex, view, kwargs, name)
diff --git a/django/conf/urls/i18n.py b/django/conf/urls/i18n.py
index 70d99b4f29..325cc9e60e 100644
--- a/django/conf/urls/i18n.py
+++ b/django/conf/urls/i18n.py
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 import functools
 
 from django.conf import settings
-from django.conf.urls import url
-from django.urls import LocaleRegexURLResolver, get_resolver
+from django.urls import LocalePrefixPattern, URLResolver, get_resolver, path
 from django.views.i18n import set_language
 
 
@@ -13,7 +12,12 @@ def i18n_patterns(*urls, prefix_default_language=True):
     """
     if not settings.USE_I18N:
         return list(urls)
-    return [LocaleRegexURLResolver(list(urls), prefix_default_language=prefix_default_language)]
+    return [
+        URLResolver(
+            LocalePrefixPattern(prefix_default_language=prefix_default_language),
+            list(urls),
+        )
+    ]
 
 
 @functools.lru_cache(maxsize=None)
@@ -25,11 +29,11 @@ def is_language_prefix_patterns_used(urlconf):
     )
     """
     for url_pattern in get_resolver(urlconf).url_patterns:
-        if isinstance(url_pattern, LocaleRegexURLResolver):
-            return True, url_pattern.prefix_default_language
+        if isinstance(url_pattern.pattern, LocalePrefixPattern):
+            return True, url_pattern.pattern.prefix_default_language
     return False, False
 
 
 urlpatterns = [
-    url(r'^setlang/$', set_language, name='set_language'),
+    path('setlang/', set_language, name='set_language'),
 ]
diff --git a/django/conf/urls/static.py b/django/conf/urls/static.py
index 216602229f..150f4ffd3f 100644
--- a/django/conf/urls/static.py
+++ b/django/conf/urls/static.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import re
 
 from django.conf import settings
-from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
+from django.urls import re_path
 from django.views.static import serve
 
 
@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ def static(prefix, view=serve, **kwargs):
         # No-op if not in debug mode or a non-local prefix.
         return []
     return [
-        url(r'^%s(?P<path>.*)$' % re.escape(prefix.lstrip('/')), view, kwargs=kwargs),
+        re_path(r'^%s(?P<path>.*)$' % re.escape(prefix.lstrip('/')), view, kwargs=kwargs),
     ]
diff --git a/django/contrib/admin/options.py b/django/contrib/admin/options.py
index 7a4ff947a8..6e4ad180ac 100644
--- a/django/contrib/admin/options.py
+++ b/django/contrib/admin/options.py
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ class ModelAdmin(BaseModelAdmin):
         return inline_instances
 
     def get_urls(self):
-        from django.conf.urls import url
+        from django.urls import path
 
         def wrap(view):
             def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
@@ -578,14 +578,14 @@ class ModelAdmin(BaseModelAdmin):
         info = self.model._meta.app_label, self.model._meta.model_name
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(r'^$', wrap(self.changelist_view), name='%s_%s_changelist' % info),
-            url(r'^add/$', wrap(self.add_view), name='%s_%s_add' % info),
-            url(r'^autocomplete/$', wrap(self.autocomplete_view), name='%s_%s_autocomplete' % info),
-            url(r'^(.+)/history/$', wrap(self.history_view), name='%s_%s_history' % info),
-            url(r'^(.+)/delete/$', wrap(self.delete_view), name='%s_%s_delete' % info),
-            url(r'^(.+)/change/$', wrap(self.change_view), name='%s_%s_change' % info),
+            path('', wrap(self.changelist_view), name='%s_%s_changelist' % info),
+            path('add/', wrap(self.add_view), name='%s_%s_add' % info),
+            path('autocomplete/', wrap(self.autocomplete_view), name='%s_%s_autocomplete' % info),
+            path('<path:object_id>/history/', wrap(self.history_view), name='%s_%s_history' % info),
+            path('<path:object_id>/delete/', wrap(self.delete_view), name='%s_%s_delete' % info),
+            path('<path:object_id>/change/', wrap(self.change_view), name='%s_%s_change' % info),
             # For backwards compatibility (was the change url before 1.9)
-            url(r'^(.+)/$', wrap(RedirectView.as_view(
+            path('<path:object_id>/', wrap(RedirectView.as_view(
                 pattern_name='%s:%s_%s_change' % ((self.admin_site.name,) + info)
             ))),
         ]
@@ -1173,8 +1173,7 @@ class ModelAdmin(BaseModelAdmin):
             opts = obj._meta
             to_field = request.POST.get(TO_FIELD_VAR)
             attr = str(to_field) if to_field else opts.pk.attname
-            # Retrieve the `object_id` from the resolved pattern arguments.
-            value = request.resolver_match.args[0]
+            value = request.resolver_match.kwargs['object_id']
             new_value = obj.serializable_value(attr)
             popup_response_data = json.dumps({
                 'action': 'change',
diff --git a/django/contrib/admin/sites.py b/django/contrib/admin/sites.py
index c0767c15ee..2e37ade62e 100644
--- a/django/contrib/admin/sites.py
+++ b/django/contrib/admin/sites.py
@@ -196,11 +196,11 @@ class AdminSite:
             class MyAdminSite(AdminSite):
 
                 def get_urls(self):
-                    from django.conf.urls import url
+                    from django.urls import path
 
                     urls = super().get_urls()
                     urls += [
-                        url(r'^my_view/$', self.admin_view(some_view))
+                        path('my_view/', self.admin_view(some_view))
                     ]
                     return urls
 
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ class AdminSite:
         return update_wrapper(inner, view)
 
     def get_urls(self):
-        from django.conf.urls import url, include
+        from django.urls import include, path, re_path
         # Since this module gets imported in the application's root package,
         # it cannot import models from other applications at the module level,
         # and django.contrib.contenttypes.views imports ContentType.
@@ -244,15 +244,21 @@ class AdminSite:
 
         # Admin-site-wide views.
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(r'^$', wrap(self.index), name='index'),
-            url(r'^login/$', self.login, name='login'),
-            url(r'^logout/$', wrap(self.logout), name='logout'),
-            url(r'^password_change/$', wrap(self.password_change, cacheable=True), name='password_change'),
-            url(r'^password_change/done/$', wrap(self.password_change_done, cacheable=True),
-                name='password_change_done'),
-            url(r'^jsi18n/$', wrap(self.i18n_javascript, cacheable=True), name='jsi18n'),
-            url(r'^r/(?P<content_type_id>\d+)/(?P<object_id>.+)/$', wrap(contenttype_views.shortcut),
-                name='view_on_site'),
+            path('', wrap(self.index), name='index'),
+            path('login/', self.login, name='login'),
+            path('logout/', wrap(self.logout), name='logout'),
+            path('password_change/', wrap(self.password_change, cacheable=True), name='password_change'),
+            path(
+                'password_change/done/',
+                wrap(self.password_change_done, cacheable=True),
+                name='password_change_done',
+            ),
+            path('jsi18n/', wrap(self.i18n_javascript, cacheable=True), name='jsi18n'),
+            path(
+                'r/<int:content_type_id>/<path:object_id>/',
+                wrap(contenttype_views.shortcut),
+                name='view_on_site',
+            ),
         ]
 
         # Add in each model's views, and create a list of valid URLS for the
@@ -260,7 +266,7 @@ class AdminSite:
         valid_app_labels = []
         for model, model_admin in self._registry.items():
             urlpatterns += [
-                url(r'^%s/%s/' % (model._meta.app_label, model._meta.model_name), include(model_admin.urls)),
+                path('%s/%s/' % (model._meta.app_label, model._meta.model_name), include(model_admin.urls)),
             ]
             if model._meta.app_label not in valid_app_labels:
                 valid_app_labels.append(model._meta.app_label)
@@ -270,7 +276,7 @@ class AdminSite:
         if valid_app_labels:
             regex = r'^(?P<app_label>' + '|'.join(valid_app_labels) + ')/$'
             urlpatterns += [
-                url(regex, wrap(self.app_index), name='app_list'),
+                re_path(regex, wrap(self.app_index), name='app_list'),
             ]
         return urlpatterns
 
diff --git a/django/contrib/admindocs/urls.py b/django/contrib/admindocs/urls.py
index bfc9648e83..bc9c3df7cf 100644
--- a/django/contrib/admindocs/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/admindocs/urls.py
@@ -1,32 +1,50 @@
-from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib.admindocs import views
+from django.urls import path, re_path
 
 urlpatterns = [
-    url(r'^$',
+    path(
+        '',
         views.BaseAdminDocsView.as_view(template_name='admin_doc/index.html'),
-        name='django-admindocs-docroot'),
-    url(r'^bookmarklets/$',
+        name='django-admindocs-docroot',
+    ),
+    path(
+        'bookmarklets/',
         views.BookmarkletsView.as_view(),
-        name='django-admindocs-bookmarklets'),
-    url(r'^tags/$',
+        name='django-admindocs-bookmarklets',
+    ),
+    path(
+        'tags/',
         views.TemplateTagIndexView.as_view(),
-        name='django-admindocs-tags'),
-    url(r'^filters/$',
+        name='django-admindocs-tags',
+    ),
+    path(
+        'filters/',
         views.TemplateFilterIndexView.as_view(),
-        name='django-admindocs-filters'),
-    url(r'^views/$',
+        name='django-admindocs-filters',
+    ),
+    path(
+        'views/',
         views.ViewIndexView.as_view(),
-        name='django-admindocs-views-index'),
-    url(r'^views/(?P<view>[^/]+)/$',
+        name='django-admindocs-views-index',
+    ),
+    path(
+        'views/<view>/',
         views.ViewDetailView.as_view(),
-        name='django-admindocs-views-detail'),
-    url(r'^models/$',
+        name='django-admindocs-views-detail',
+    ),
+    path(
+        'models/',
         views.ModelIndexView.as_view(),
-        name='django-admindocs-models-index'),
-    url(r'^models/(?P<app_label>[^\.]+)\.(?P<model_name>[^/]+)/$',
+        name='django-admindocs-models-index',
+    ),
+    re_path(
+        r'^models/(?P<app_label>[^\.]+)\.(?P<model_name>[^/]+)/$',
         views.ModelDetailView.as_view(),
-        name='django-admindocs-models-detail'),
-    url(r'^templates/(?P<template>.*)/$',
+        name='django-admindocs-models-detail',
+    ),
+    path(
+        'templates/<path:template>/',
         views.TemplateDetailView.as_view(),
-        name='django-admindocs-templates'),
+        name='django-admindocs-templates',
+    ),
 ]
diff --git a/django/contrib/admindocs/views.py b/django/contrib/admindocs/views.py
index 2b96ee3e8f..e45898c025 100644
--- a/django/contrib/admindocs/views.py
+++ b/django/contrib/admindocs/views.py
@@ -401,13 +401,12 @@ def extract_views_from_urlpatterns(urlpatterns, base='', namespace=None):
                 continue
             views.extend(extract_views_from_urlpatterns(
                 patterns,
-                base + p.regex.pattern,
+                base + str(p.pattern),
                 (namespace or []) + (p.namespace and [p.namespace] or [])
             ))
         elif hasattr(p, 'callback'):
             try:
-                views.append((p.callback, base + p.regex.pattern,
-                              namespace, p.name))
+                views.append((p.callback, base + str(p.pattern), namespace, p.name))
             except ViewDoesNotExist:
                 continue
         else:
diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/admin.py b/django/contrib/auth/admin.py
index 3661d226a7..41df65a72e 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/admin.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/admin.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 from django.conf import settings
-from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib import admin, messages
 from django.contrib.admin.options import IS_POPUP_VAR
 from django.contrib.admin.utils import unquote
@@ -12,7 +11,7 @@ from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied
 from django.db import router, transaction
 from django.http import Http404, HttpResponseRedirect
 from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
-from django.urls import reverse
+from django.urls import path, reverse
 from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
 from django.utils.html import escape
 from django.utils.translation import gettext, gettext_lazy as _
@@ -81,8 +80,8 @@ class UserAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
 
     def get_urls(self):
         return [
-            url(
-                r'^(.+)/password/$',
+            path(
+                '<id>/password/',
                 self.admin_site.admin_view(self.user_change_password),
                 name='auth_user_password_change',
             ),
diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/urls.py b/django/contrib/auth/urls.py
index 233eef8fec..c3306807e5 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/urls.py
@@ -3,19 +3,18 @@
 # It is also provided as a convenience to those who want to deploy these URLs
 # elsewhere.
 
-from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib.auth import views
+from django.urls import path
 
 urlpatterns = [
-    url(r'^login/$', views.LoginView.as_view(), name='login'),
-    url(r'^logout/$', views.LogoutView.as_view(), name='logout'),
+    path('login/', views.LoginView.as_view(), name='login'),
+    path('logout/', views.LogoutView.as_view(), name='logout'),
 
-    url(r'^password_change/$', views.PasswordChangeView.as_view(), name='password_change'),
-    url(r'^password_change/done/$', views.PasswordChangeDoneView.as_view(), name='password_change_done'),
+    path('password_change/', views.PasswordChangeView.as_view(), name='password_change'),
+    path('password_change/done/', views.PasswordChangeDoneView.as_view(), name='password_change_done'),
 
-    url(r'^password_reset/$', views.PasswordResetView.as_view(), name='password_reset'),
-    url(r'^password_reset/done/$', views.PasswordResetDoneView.as_view(), name='password_reset_done'),
-    url(r'^reset/(?P<uidb64>[0-9A-Za-z_\-]+)/(?P<token>[0-9A-Za-z]{1,13}-[0-9A-Za-z]{1,20})/$',
-        views.PasswordResetConfirmView.as_view(), name='password_reset_confirm'),
-    url(r'^reset/done/$', views.PasswordResetCompleteView.as_view(), name='password_reset_complete'),
+    path('password_reset/', views.PasswordResetView.as_view(), name='password_reset'),
+    path('password_reset/done/', views.PasswordResetDoneView.as_view(), name='password_reset_done'),
+    path('reset/<uidb64>/<token>/', views.PasswordResetConfirmView.as_view(), name='password_reset_confirm'),
+    path('reset/done/', views.PasswordResetCompleteView.as_view(), name='password_reset_complete'),
 ]
diff --git a/django/contrib/flatpages/urls.py b/django/contrib/flatpages/urls.py
index 3437e823b2..a087fe8c1d 100644
--- a/django/contrib/flatpages/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/flatpages/urls.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib.flatpages import views
+from django.urls import path
 
 urlpatterns = [
-    url(r'^(?P<url>.*)$', views.flatpage, name='django.contrib.flatpages.views.flatpage'),
+    path('<path:url>', views.flatpage, name='django.contrib.flatpages.views.flatpage'),
 ]
diff --git a/django/core/checks/urls.py b/django/core/checks/urls.py
index 0f65d3f3b7..e51ca3fc1f 100644
--- a/django/core/checks/urls.py
+++ b/django/core/checks/urls.py
@@ -81,13 +81,13 @@ def get_warning_for_invalid_pattern(pattern):
             "have a prefix string as the first element.".format(pattern)
         )
     elif isinstance(pattern, tuple):
-        hint = "Try using url() instead of a tuple."
+        hint = "Try using path() instead of a tuple."
     else:
         hint = None
 
     return [Error(
         "Your URL pattern {!r} is invalid. Ensure that urlpatterns is a list "
-        "of url() instances.".format(pattern),
+        "of path() and/or re_path() instances.".format(pattern),
         hint=hint,
         id="urls.E004",
     )]
diff --git a/django/template/defaulttags.py b/django/template/defaulttags.py
index ad2cec3432..5f56bb0d1f 100644
--- a/django/template/defaulttags.py
+++ b/django/template/defaulttags.py
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ def url(parser, token):
 
         {% url "url_name" name1=value1 name2=value2 %}
 
-    The first argument is a django.conf.urls.url() name. Other arguments are
+    The first argument is a URL pattern name. Other arguments are
     space-separated values that will be filled in place of positional and
     keyword arguments in the URL. Don't mix positional and keyword arguments.
     All arguments for the URL must be present.
@@ -1337,12 +1337,12 @@ def url(parser, token):
     For example, if you have a view ``app_name.views.client_details`` taking
     the client's id and the corresponding line in a URLconf looks like this::
 
-        url('^client/(\d+)/$', views.client_details, name='client-detail-view')
+        path('client/<int:id>/', views.client_details, name='client-detail-view')
 
     and this app's URLconf is included into the project's URLconf under some
     path::
 
-        url('^clients/', include('app_name.urls'))
+        path('clients/', include('app_name.urls'))
 
     then in a template you can create a link for a certain client like this::
 
@@ -1359,7 +1359,7 @@ def url(parser, token):
     """
     bits = token.split_contents()
     if len(bits) < 2:
-        raise TemplateSyntaxError("'%s' takes at least one argument, the name of a url()." % bits[0])
+        raise TemplateSyntaxError("'%s' takes at least one argument, a URL pattern name." % bits[0])
     viewname = parser.compile_filter(bits[1])
     args = []
     kwargs = {}
diff --git a/django/urls/__init__.py b/django/urls/__init__.py
index f6d51e8a9f..e9e32ac5b9 100644
--- a/django/urls/__init__.py
+++ b/django/urls/__init__.py
@@ -3,19 +3,21 @@ from .base import (
     is_valid_path, resolve, reverse, reverse_lazy, set_script_prefix,
     set_urlconf, translate_url,
 )
-from .conf import include
+from .conf import include, path, re_path
+from .converters import register_converter
 from .exceptions import NoReverseMatch, Resolver404
 from .resolvers import (
-    LocaleRegexProvider, LocaleRegexURLResolver, RegexURLPattern,
-    RegexURLResolver, ResolverMatch, get_ns_resolver, get_resolver,
+    LocalePrefixPattern, ResolverMatch, URLPattern, URLResolver,
+    get_ns_resolver, get_resolver,
 )
 from .utils import get_callable, get_mod_func
 
 __all__ = [
-    'LocaleRegexProvider', 'LocaleRegexURLResolver', 'NoReverseMatch',
-    'RegexURLPattern', 'RegexURLResolver', 'Resolver404', 'ResolverMatch',
-    'clear_script_prefix', 'clear_url_caches', 'get_callable', 'get_mod_func',
-    'get_ns_resolver', 'get_resolver', 'get_script_prefix', 'get_urlconf',
-    'include', 'is_valid_path', 'resolve', 'reverse', 'reverse_lazy',
-    'set_script_prefix', 'set_urlconf', 'translate_url',
+    'LocalePrefixPattern', 'NoReverseMatch', 'URLPattern',
+    'URLResolver', 'Resolver404', 'ResolverMatch', 'clear_script_prefix',
+    'clear_url_caches', 'get_callable', 'get_mod_func', 'get_ns_resolver',
+    'get_resolver', 'get_script_prefix', 'get_urlconf', 'include',
+    'is_valid_path', 'path', 're_path', 'register_converter', 'resolve',
+    'reverse', 'reverse_lazy', 'set_script_prefix', 'set_urlconf',
+    'translate_url',
 ]
diff --git a/django/urls/conf.py b/django/urls/conf.py
index 99bff55819..119e95df41 100644
--- a/django/urls/conf.py
+++ b/django/urls/conf.py
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 """Functions for use in URLsconfs."""
+from functools import partial
 from importlib import import_module
 
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 
-from .resolvers import LocaleRegexURLResolver
+from .resolvers import (
+    LocalePrefixPattern, RegexPattern, RoutePattern, URLPattern, URLResolver,
+)
 
 
 def include(arg, namespace=None):
@@ -43,8 +46,32 @@ def include(arg, namespace=None):
     # testcases will break).
     if isinstance(patterns, (list, tuple)):
         for url_pattern in patterns:
-            if isinstance(url_pattern, LocaleRegexURLResolver):
+            pattern = getattr(url_pattern, 'pattern', None)
+            if isinstance(pattern, LocalePrefixPattern):
                 raise ImproperlyConfigured(
                     'Using i18n_patterns in an included URLconf is not allowed.'
                 )
     return (urlconf_module, app_name, namespace)
+
+
+def _path(route, view, kwargs=None, name=None, Pattern=None):
+    if isinstance(view, (list, tuple)):
+        # For include(...) processing.
+        pattern = Pattern(route, is_endpoint=False)
+        urlconf_module, app_name, namespace = view
+        return URLResolver(
+            pattern,
+            urlconf_module,
+            kwargs,
+            app_name=app_name,
+            namespace=namespace,
+        )
+    elif callable(view):
+        pattern = Pattern(route, name=name, is_endpoint=True)
+        return URLPattern(pattern, view, kwargs, name)
+    else:
+        raise TypeError('view must be a callable or a list/tuple in the case of include().')
+
+
+path = partial(_path, Pattern=RoutePattern)
+re_path = partial(_path, Pattern=RegexPattern)
diff --git a/django/urls/converters.py b/django/urls/converters.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eb2a61971e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/django/urls/converters.py
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+import uuid
+
+from django.utils import lru_cache
+
+
+class IntConverter:
+    regex = '[0-9]+'
+
+    def to_python(self, value):
+        return int(value)
+
+    def to_url(self, value):
+        return str(value)
+
+
+class StringConverter:
+    regex = '[^/]+'
+
+    def to_python(self, value):
+        return value
+
+    def to_url(self, value):
+        return value
+
+
+class UUIDConverter:
+    regex = '[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}'
+
+    def to_python(self, value):
+        return uuid.UUID(value)
+
+    def to_url(self, value):
+        return str(value)
+
+
+class SlugConverter(StringConverter):
+    regex = '[-a-zA-Z0-9_]+'
+
+
+class PathConverter(StringConverter):
+    regex = '.+'
+
+
+DEFAULT_CONVERTERS = {
+    'int': IntConverter(),
+    'path': PathConverter(),
+    'slug': SlugConverter(),
+    'str': StringConverter(),
+    'uuid': UUIDConverter(),
+}
+
+
+REGISTERED_CONVERTERS = {}
+
+
+def register_converter(converter, type_name):
+    REGISTERED_CONVERTERS[type_name] = converter()
+    get_converters.cache_clear()
+
+
+@lru_cache.lru_cache(maxsize=None)
+def get_converters():
+    converters = {}
+    converters.update(DEFAULT_CONVERTERS)
+    converters.update(REGISTERED_CONVERTERS)
+    return converters
+
+
+def get_converter(raw_converter):
+    return get_converters()[raw_converter]
diff --git a/django/urls/resolvers.py b/django/urls/resolvers.py
index ecad10acea..f91e821b38 100644
--- a/django/urls/resolvers.py
+++ b/django/urls/resolvers.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ from django.utils.http import RFC3986_SUBDELIMS
 from django.utils.regex_helper import normalize
 from django.utils.translation import get_language
 
+from .converters import get_converter
 from .exceptions import NoReverseMatch, Resolver404
 from .utils import get_callable
 
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ def get_resolver(urlconf=None):
     if urlconf is None:
         from django.conf import settings
         urlconf = settings.ROOT_URLCONF
-    return RegexURLResolver(r'^/', urlconf)
+    return URLResolver(RegexPattern(r'^/'), urlconf)
 
 
 @functools.lru_cache(maxsize=None)
@@ -72,11 +73,14 @@ def get_ns_resolver(ns_pattern, resolver):
     # Build a namespaced resolver for the given parent URLconf pattern.
     # This makes it possible to have captured parameters in the parent
     # URLconf pattern.
-    ns_resolver = RegexURLResolver(ns_pattern, resolver.url_patterns)
-    return RegexURLResolver(r'^/', [ns_resolver])
+    ns_resolver = URLResolver(RegexPattern(ns_pattern), resolver.url_patterns)
+    return URLResolver(RegexPattern(r'^/'), [ns_resolver])
 
 
 class LocaleRegexDescriptor:
+    def __init__(self, attr):
+        self.attr = attr
+
     def __get__(self, instance, cls=None):
         """
         Return a compiled regular expression based on the active language.
@@ -86,46 +90,23 @@ class LocaleRegexDescriptor:
         # As a performance optimization, if the given regex string is a regular
         # string (not a lazily-translated string proxy), compile it once and
         # avoid per-language compilation.
-        if isinstance(instance._regex, str):
-            instance.__dict__['regex'] = self._compile(instance._regex)
+        pattern = getattr(instance, self.attr)
+        if isinstance(pattern, str):
+            instance.__dict__['regex'] = instance._compile(pattern)
             return instance.__dict__['regex']
         language_code = get_language()
         if language_code not in instance._regex_dict:
-            instance._regex_dict[language_code] = self._compile(str(instance._regex))
+            instance._regex_dict[language_code] = instance._compile(str(pattern))
         return instance._regex_dict[language_code]
 
-    def _compile(self, regex):
-        """
-        Compile and return the given regular expression.
-        """
-        try:
-            return re.compile(regex)
-        except re.error as e:
-            raise ImproperlyConfigured(
-                '"%s" is not a valid regular expression: %s' % (regex, e)
-            )
-
-
-class LocaleRegexProvider:
-    """
-    A mixin to provide a default regex property which can vary by active
-    language.
-    """
-    def __init__(self, regex):
-        # regex is either a string representing a regular expression, or a
-        # translatable string (using gettext_lazy) representing a regular
-        # expression.
-        self._regex = regex
-        self._regex_dict = {}
-
-    regex = LocaleRegexDescriptor()
 
+class CheckURLMixin:
     def describe(self):
         """
         Format the URL pattern for display in warning messages.
         """
-        description = "'{}'".format(self.regex.pattern)
-        if getattr(self, 'name', False):
+        description = "'{}'".format(self)
+        if self.name:
             description += " [name='{}']".format(self.name)
         return description
 
@@ -138,9 +119,9 @@ class LocaleRegexProvider:
             # Skip check as it can be useful to start a URL pattern with a slash
             # when APPEND_SLASH=False.
             return []
-        if (regex_pattern.startswith('/') or regex_pattern.startswith('^/')) and not regex_pattern.endswith('/'):
+        if any(regex_pattern.startswith(x) for x in ('/', '^/', '^\/')) and not regex_pattern.endswith('/'):
             warning = Warning(
-                "Your URL pattern {} has a regex beginning with a '/'. Remove this "
+                "Your URL pattern {} has a route beginning with a '/'. Remove this "
                 "slash as it is unnecessary. If this pattern is targeted in an "
                 "include(), ensure the include() pattern has a trailing '/'.".format(
                     self.describe()
@@ -152,37 +133,17 @@ class LocaleRegexProvider:
             return []
 
 
-class RegexURLPattern(LocaleRegexProvider):
-    def __init__(self, regex, callback, default_args=None, name=None):
-        LocaleRegexProvider.__init__(self, regex)
-        self.callback = callback  # the view
-        self.default_args = default_args or {}
+class RegexPattern(CheckURLMixin):
+    regex = LocaleRegexDescriptor('_regex')
+
+    def __init__(self, regex, name=None, is_endpoint=False):
+        self._regex = regex
+        self._regex_dict = {}
+        self._is_endpoint = is_endpoint
         self.name = name
+        self.converters = {}
 
-    def __repr__(self):
-        return '<%s %s %s>' % (self.__class__.__name__, self.name, self.regex.pattern)
-
-    def check(self):
-        warnings = self._check_pattern_name()
-        if not warnings:
-            warnings = self._check_pattern_startswith_slash()
-        return warnings
-
-    def _check_pattern_name(self):
-        """
-        Check that the pattern name does not contain a colon.
-        """
-        if self.name is not None and ":" in self.name:
-            warning = Warning(
-                "Your URL pattern {} has a name including a ':'. Remove the colon, to "
-                "avoid ambiguous namespace references.".format(self.describe()),
-                id="urls.W003",
-            )
-            return [warning]
-        else:
-            return []
-
-    def resolve(self, path):
+    def match(self, path):
         match = self.regex.search(path)
         if match:
             # If there are any named groups, use those as kwargs, ignoring
@@ -190,9 +151,190 @@ class RegexURLPattern(LocaleRegexProvider):
             # positional arguments.
             kwargs = match.groupdict()
             args = () if kwargs else match.groups()
-            # In both cases, pass any extra_kwargs as **kwargs.
+            return path[match.end():], args, kwargs
+        return None
+
+    def check(self):
+        warnings = []
+        warnings.extend(self._check_pattern_startswith_slash())
+        if not self._is_endpoint:
+            warnings.extend(self._check_include_trailing_dollar())
+        return warnings
+
+    def _check_include_trailing_dollar(self):
+        regex_pattern = self.regex.pattern
+        if regex_pattern.endswith('$') and not regex_pattern.endswith(r'\$'):
+            return [Warning(
+                "Your URL pattern {} uses include with a route ending with a '$'. "
+                "Remove the dollar from the route to avoid problems including "
+                "URLs.".format(self.describe()),
+                id='urls.W001',
+            )]
+        else:
+            return []
+
+    def _compile(self, regex):
+        """Compile and return the given regular expression."""
+        try:
+            return re.compile(regex)
+        except re.error as e:
+            raise ImproperlyConfigured(
+                '"%s" is not a valid regular expression: %s' % (regex, e)
+            )
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self._regex
+
+
+_PATH_PARAMETER_COMPONENT_RE = re.compile(
+    '<(?:(?P<converter>[^>:]+):)?(?P<parameter>\w+)>'
+)
+
+
+def _route_to_regex(route, is_endpoint=False):
+    """
+    Convert a path pattern into a regular expression. Return the regular
+    expression and a dictionary mapping the capture names to the converters.
+    For example, 'foo/<int:pk>' returns '^foo\\/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)'
+    and {'pk': <django.urls.converters.IntConverter>}.
+    """
+    original_route = route
+    parts = ['^']
+    converters = {}
+    while True:
+        match = _PATH_PARAMETER_COMPONENT_RE.search(route)
+        if not match:
+            parts.append(re.escape(route))
+            break
+        parts.append(re.escape(route[:match.start()]))
+        route = route[match.end():]
+        parameter = match.group('parameter')
+        if not parameter.isidentifier():
+            raise ImproperlyConfigured(
+                "URL route '%s' uses parameter name %r which isn't a valid "
+                "Python identifier." % (original_route, parameter)
+            )
+        raw_converter = match.group('converter')
+        if raw_converter is None:
+            # If a converter isn't specified, the default is `str`.
+            raw_converter = 'str'
+        try:
+            converter = get_converter(raw_converter)
+        except KeyError as e:
+            raise ImproperlyConfigured(
+                "URL route '%s' uses invalid converter %s." % (original_route, e)
+            )
+        converters[parameter] = converter
+        parts.append('(?P<' + parameter + '>' + converter.regex + ')')
+    if is_endpoint:
+        parts.append('$')
+    return ''.join(parts), converters
+
+
+class RoutePattern(CheckURLMixin):
+    regex = LocaleRegexDescriptor('_route')
+
+    def __init__(self, route, name=None, is_endpoint=False):
+        self._route = route
+        self._regex_dict = {}
+        self._is_endpoint = is_endpoint
+        self.name = name
+        self.converters = _route_to_regex(str(route), is_endpoint)[1]
+
+    def match(self, path):
+        match = self.regex.search(path)
+        if match:
+            # RoutePattern doesn't allow non-named groups so args are ignored.
+            kwargs = match.groupdict()
+            for key, value in kwargs.items():
+                converter = self.converters[key]
+                try:
+                    kwargs[key] = converter.to_python(value)
+                except ValueError:
+                    return None
+            return path[match.end():], (), kwargs
+        return None
+
+    def check(self):
+        return self._check_pattern_startswith_slash()
+
+    def _compile(self, route):
+        return re.compile(_route_to_regex(route, self._is_endpoint)[0])
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self._route
+
+
+class LocalePrefixPattern:
+    def __init__(self, prefix_default_language=True):
+        self.prefix_default_language = prefix_default_language
+        self.converters = {}
+
+    @property
+    def regex(self):
+        # This is only used by reverse() and cached in _reverse_dict.
+        return re.compile(self.language_prefix)
+
+    @property
+    def language_prefix(self):
+        language_code = get_language() or settings.LANGUAGE_CODE
+        if language_code == settings.LANGUAGE_CODE and not self.prefix_default_language:
+            return ''
+        else:
+            return '%s/' % language_code
+
+    def match(self, path):
+        language_prefix = self.language_prefix
+        if path.startswith(language_prefix):
+            return path[len(language_prefix):], (), {}
+        return None
+
+    def check(self):
+        return []
+
+    def describe(self):
+        return "'{}'".format(self)
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.language_prefix
+
+
+class URLPattern:
+    def __init__(self, pattern, callback, default_args=None, name=None):
+        self.pattern = pattern
+        self.callback = callback  # the view
+        self.default_args = default_args or {}
+        self.name = name
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return '<%s %s>' % (self.__class__.__name__, self.pattern.describe())
+
+    def check(self):
+        warnings = self._check_pattern_name()
+        warnings.extend(self.pattern.check())
+        return warnings
+
+    def _check_pattern_name(self):
+        """
+        Check that the pattern name does not contain a colon.
+        """
+        if self.pattern.name is not None and ":" in self.pattern.name:
+            warning = Warning(
+                "Your URL pattern {} has a name including a ':'. Remove the colon, to "
+                "avoid ambiguous namespace references.".format(self.pattern.describe()),
+                id="urls.W003",
+            )
+            return [warning]
+        else:
+            return []
+
+    def resolve(self, path):
+        match = self.pattern.match(path)
+        if match:
+            new_path, args, kwargs = match
+            # Pass any extra_kwargs as **kwargs.
             kwargs.update(self.default_args)
-            return ResolverMatch(self.callback, args, kwargs, self.name)
+            return ResolverMatch(self.callback, args, kwargs, self.pattern.name)
 
     @cached_property
     def lookup_str(self):
@@ -210,9 +352,9 @@ class RegexURLPattern(LocaleRegexProvider):
         return callback.__module__ + "." + callback.__qualname__
 
 
-class RegexURLResolver(LocaleRegexProvider):
-    def __init__(self, regex, urlconf_name, default_kwargs=None, app_name=None, namespace=None):
-        LocaleRegexProvider.__init__(self, regex)
+class URLResolver:
+    def __init__(self, pattern, urlconf_name, default_kwargs=None, app_name=None, namespace=None):
+        self.pattern = pattern
         # urlconf_name is the dotted Python path to the module defining
         # urlpatterns. It may also be an object with an urlpatterns attribute
         # or urlpatterns itself.
@@ -238,33 +380,17 @@ class RegexURLResolver(LocaleRegexProvider):
             urlconf_repr = repr(self.urlconf_name)
         return '<%s %s (%s:%s) %s>' % (
             self.__class__.__name__, urlconf_repr, self.app_name,
-            self.namespace, self.regex.pattern,
+            self.namespace, self.pattern.describe(),
         )
 
     def check(self):
-        warnings = self._check_include_trailing_dollar()
+        warnings = []
         for pattern in self.url_patterns:
             warnings.extend(check_resolver(pattern))
         if not warnings:
-            warnings = self._check_pattern_startswith_slash()
+            warnings = self.pattern.check()
         return warnings
 
-    def _check_include_trailing_dollar(self):
-        """
-        Check that include is not used with a regex ending with a dollar.
-        """
-        regex_pattern = self.regex.pattern
-        if regex_pattern.endswith('$') and not regex_pattern.endswith(r'\$'):
-            warning = Warning(
-                "Your URL pattern {} uses include with a regex ending with a '$'. "
-                "Remove the dollar from the regex to avoid problems including "
-                "URLs.".format(self.describe()),
-                id="urls.W001",
-            )
-            return [warning]
-        else:
-            return []
-
     def _populate(self):
         # Short-circuit if called recursively in this thread to prevent
         # infinite recursion. Concurrent threads may call this at the same
@@ -277,47 +403,52 @@ class RegexURLResolver(LocaleRegexProvider):
         namespaces = {}
         apps = {}
         language_code = get_language()
-        for pattern in reversed(self.url_patterns):
-            if isinstance(pattern, RegexURLPattern):
-                self._callback_strs.add(pattern.lookup_str)
-            p_pattern = pattern.regex.pattern
-            if p_pattern.startswith('^'):
-                p_pattern = p_pattern[1:]
-            if isinstance(pattern, RegexURLResolver):
-                if pattern.namespace:
-                    namespaces[pattern.namespace] = (p_pattern, pattern)
-                    if pattern.app_name:
-                        apps.setdefault(pattern.app_name, []).append(pattern.namespace)
-                else:
-                    parent_pat = pattern.regex.pattern
-                    for name in pattern.reverse_dict:
-                        for matches, pat, defaults in pattern.reverse_dict.getlist(name):
-                            new_matches = normalize(parent_pat + pat)
-                            lookups.appendlist(
-                                name,
-                                (
-                                    new_matches,
-                                    p_pattern + pat,
-                                    dict(defaults, **pattern.default_kwargs),
+        try:
+            for url_pattern in reversed(self.url_patterns):
+                p_pattern = url_pattern.pattern.regex.pattern
+                if p_pattern.startswith('^'):
+                    p_pattern = p_pattern[1:]
+                if isinstance(url_pattern, URLPattern):
+                    self._callback_strs.add(url_pattern.lookup_str)
+                    bits = normalize(url_pattern.pattern.regex.pattern)
+                    lookups.appendlist(
+                        url_pattern.callback,
+                        (bits, p_pattern, url_pattern.default_args, url_pattern.pattern.converters)
+                    )
+                    if url_pattern.name is not None:
+                        lookups.appendlist(
+                            url_pattern.name,
+                            (bits, p_pattern, url_pattern.default_args, url_pattern.pattern.converters)
+                        )
+                else:  # url_pattern is a URLResolver.
+                    url_pattern._populate()
+                    if url_pattern.app_name:
+                        apps.setdefault(url_pattern.app_name, []).append(url_pattern.namespace)
+                        namespaces[url_pattern.namespace] = (p_pattern, url_pattern)
+                    else:
+                        for name in url_pattern.reverse_dict:
+                            for matches, pat, defaults, converters in url_pattern.reverse_dict.getlist(name):
+                                new_matches = normalize(p_pattern + pat)
+                                lookups.appendlist(
+                                    name,
+                                    (
+                                        new_matches,
+                                        p_pattern + pat,
+                                        dict(defaults, **url_pattern.default_kwargs),
+                                        dict(self.pattern.converters, **converters)
+                                    )
                                 )
-                            )
-                    for namespace, (prefix, sub_pattern) in pattern.namespace_dict.items():
-                        namespaces[namespace] = (p_pattern + prefix, sub_pattern)
-                    for app_name, namespace_list in pattern.app_dict.items():
-                        apps.setdefault(app_name, []).extend(namespace_list)
-                if not getattr(pattern._local, 'populating', False):
-                    pattern._populate()
-                self._callback_strs.update(pattern._callback_strs)
-            else:
-                bits = normalize(p_pattern)
-                lookups.appendlist(pattern.callback, (bits, p_pattern, pattern.default_args))
-                if pattern.name is not None:
-                    lookups.appendlist(pattern.name, (bits, p_pattern, pattern.default_args))
-        self._reverse_dict[language_code] = lookups
-        self._namespace_dict[language_code] = namespaces
-        self._app_dict[language_code] = apps
-        self._populated = True
-        self._local.populating = False
+                        for namespace, (prefix, sub_pattern) in url_pattern.namespace_dict.items():
+                            namespaces[namespace] = (p_pattern + prefix, sub_pattern)
+                        for app_name, namespace_list in url_pattern.app_dict.items():
+                            apps.setdefault(app_name, []).extend(namespace_list)
+                    self._callback_strs.update(url_pattern._callback_strs)
+            self._namespace_dict[language_code] = namespaces
+            self._app_dict[language_code] = apps
+            self._reverse_dict[language_code] = lookups
+            self._populated = True
+        finally:
+            self._local.populating = False
 
     @property
     def reverse_dict(self):
@@ -348,9 +479,9 @@ class RegexURLResolver(LocaleRegexProvider):
     def resolve(self, path):
         path = str(path)  # path may be a reverse_lazy object
         tried = []
-        match = self.regex.search(path)
+        match = self.pattern.match(path)
         if match:
-            new_path = path[match.end():]
+            new_path, args, kwargs = match
             for pattern in self.url_patterns:
                 try:
                     sub_match = pattern.resolve(new_path)
@@ -363,15 +494,14 @@ class RegexURLResolver(LocaleRegexProvider):
                 else:
                     if sub_match:
                         # Merge captured arguments in match with submatch
-                        sub_match_dict = dict(match.groupdict(), **self.default_kwargs)
+                        sub_match_dict = dict(kwargs, **self.default_kwargs)
+                        # Update the sub_match_dict with the kwargs from the sub_match.
                         sub_match_dict.update(sub_match.kwargs)
-
                         # If there are *any* named groups, ignore all non-named groups.
                         # Otherwise, pass all non-named arguments as positional arguments.
                         sub_match_args = sub_match.args
                         if not sub_match_dict:
-                            sub_match_args = match.groups() + sub_match.args
-
+                            sub_match_args = args + sub_match.args
                         return ResolverMatch(
                             sub_match.func,
                             sub_match_args,
@@ -421,20 +551,18 @@ class RegexURLResolver(LocaleRegexProvider):
     def _reverse_with_prefix(self, lookup_view, _prefix, *args, **kwargs):
         if args and kwargs:
             raise ValueError("Don't mix *args and **kwargs in call to reverse()!")
-        text_args = [str(v) for v in args]
-        text_kwargs = {k: str(v) for (k, v) in kwargs.items()}
 
         if not self._populated:
             self._populate()
 
         possibilities = self.reverse_dict.getlist(lookup_view)
 
-        for possibility, pattern, defaults in possibilities:
+        for possibility, pattern, defaults, converters in possibilities:
             for result, params in possibility:
                 if args:
                     if len(args) != len(params):
                         continue
-                    candidate_subs = dict(zip(params, text_args))
+                    candidate_subs = dict(zip(params, args))
                 else:
                     if set(kwargs).symmetric_difference(params).difference(defaults):
                         continue
@@ -445,16 +573,23 @@ class RegexURLResolver(LocaleRegexProvider):
                             break
                     if not matches:
                         continue
-                    candidate_subs = text_kwargs
+                    candidate_subs = kwargs
+                # Convert the candidate subs to text using Converter.to_url().
+                text_candidate_subs = {}
+                for k, v in candidate_subs.items():
+                    if k in converters:
+                        text_candidate_subs[k] = converters[k].to_url(v)
+                    else:
+                        text_candidate_subs[k] = str(v)
                 # WSGI provides decoded URLs, without %xx escapes, and the URL
                 # resolver operates on such URLs. First substitute arguments
                 # without quoting to build a decoded URL and look for a match.
                 # Then, if we have a match, redo the substitution with quoted
                 # arguments in order to return a properly encoded URL.
                 candidate_pat = _prefix.replace('%', '%%') + result
-                if re.search('^%s%s' % (re.escape(_prefix), pattern), candidate_pat % candidate_subs):
+                if re.search('^%s%s' % (re.escape(_prefix), pattern), candidate_pat % text_candidate_subs):
                     # safe characters from `pchar` definition of RFC 3986
-                    url = quote(candidate_pat % candidate_subs, safe=RFC3986_SUBDELIMS + '/~:@')
+                    url = quote(candidate_pat % text_candidate_subs, safe=RFC3986_SUBDELIMS + '/~:@')
                     # Don't allow construction of scheme relative urls.
                     if url.startswith('//'):
                         url = '/%%2F%s' % url[2:]
@@ -468,7 +603,7 @@ class RegexURLResolver(LocaleRegexProvider):
         else:
             lookup_view_s = lookup_view
 
-        patterns = [pattern for (possibility, pattern, defaults) in possibilities]
+        patterns = [pattern for (_, pattern, _, _) in possibilities]
         if patterns:
             if args:
                 arg_msg = "arguments '%s'" % (args,)
@@ -486,29 +621,3 @@ class RegexURLResolver(LocaleRegexProvider):
                 "a valid view function or pattern name." % {'view': lookup_view_s}
             )
         raise NoReverseMatch(msg)
-
-
-class LocaleRegexURLResolver(RegexURLResolver):
-    """
-    A URL resolver that always matches the active language code as URL prefix.
-
-    Rather than taking a regex argument, we just override the ``regex``
-    function to always return the active language-code as regex.
-    """
-    def __init__(
-        self, urlconf_name, default_kwargs=None, app_name=None, namespace=None,
-        prefix_default_language=True,
-    ):
-        super().__init__(None, urlconf_name, default_kwargs, app_name, namespace)
-        self.prefix_default_language = prefix_default_language
-
-    @property
-    def regex(self):
-        language_code = get_language() or settings.LANGUAGE_CODE
-        if language_code not in self._regex_dict:
-            if language_code == settings.LANGUAGE_CODE and not self.prefix_default_language:
-                regex_string = ''
-            else:
-                regex_string = '^%s/' % language_code
-            self._regex_dict[language_code] = re.compile(regex_string)
-        return self._regex_dict[language_code]
diff --git a/django/views/generic/dates.py b/django/views/generic/dates.py
index 5e0247474d..2aedf3aacd 100644
--- a/django/views/generic/dates.py
+++ b/django/views/generic/dates.py
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ def _date_from_string(year, year_format, month='', month_format='', day='', day_
     (only year is mandatory). Raise a 404 for an invalid date.
     """
     format = year_format + delim + month_format + delim + day_format
-    datestr = year + delim + month + delim + day
+    datestr = str(year) + delim + str(month) + delim + str(day)
     try:
         return datetime.datetime.strptime(datestr, format).date()
     except ValueError:
diff --git a/django/views/templates/technical_404.html b/django/views/templates/technical_404.html
index ec518f658e..0bf5fd3cd0 100644
--- a/django/views/templates/technical_404.html
+++ b/django/views/templates/technical_404.html
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
         {% for pattern in urlpatterns %}
           <li>
             {% for pat in pattern %}
-                {{ pat.regex.pattern }}
+                {{ pat.pattern }}
                 {% if forloop.last and pat.name %}[name='{{ pat.name }}']{% endif %}
             {% endfor %}
           </li>
diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
index 94c470cbc1..12859b182e 100644
--- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ details on these changes.
   ``django.utils.feedgenerator.RssFeed`` will be removed in favor of
   ``content_type``.
 
-* The ``app_name`` argument to :func:`~django.conf.urls.include()` will be
+* The ``app_name`` argument to ``django.conf.urls.include()`` will be
   removed.
 
 * Support for passing a 3-tuple as the first argument to ``include()`` will
@@ -786,10 +786,9 @@ details on these changes.
   ``django.contrib.gis.utils`` will be removed.
 
 * ``django.conf.urls.defaults`` will be removed. The functions
-  :func:`~django.conf.urls.include`, ``patterns()`` and
-  :func:`~django.conf.urls.url` plus :data:`~django.conf.urls.handler404`,
-  :data:`~django.conf.urls.handler500`, are now available through
-  :mod:`django.conf.urls` .
+  ``include()``, ``patterns()``, and ``url()``, plus
+  :data:`~django.conf.urls.handler404` and :data:`~django.conf.urls.handler500`
+  are now available through ``django.conf.urls``.
 
 * The functions ``setup_environ()`` and ``execute_manager()`` will be removed
   from :mod:`django.core.management`. This also means that the old (pre-1.4)
diff --git a/docs/intro/overview.txt b/docs/intro/overview.txt
index b47f004d30..203e501054 100644
--- a/docs/intro/overview.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/overview.txt
@@ -191,31 +191,30 @@ example above:
 .. snippet::
     :filename: mysite/news/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
 
     from . import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/$', views.year_archive),
-        url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/$', views.month_archive),
-        url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]+)/$', views.article_detail),
+        path('articles/<int:year>/', views.year_archive),
+        path('articles/<int:year>/<int:month>/', views.month_archive),
+        path('articles/<int:year>/<int:month>/<int:pk>/', views.article_detail),
     ]
 
-The code above maps URLs, as simple :ref:`regular expressions <regex-howto>`,
-to the location of Python callback functions ("views"). The regular expressions
-use parenthesis to "capture" values from the URLs. When a user requests a page,
-Django runs through each pattern, in order, and stops at the first one that
-matches the requested URL. (If none of them matches, Django calls a
-special-case 404 view.) This is blazingly fast, because the regular expressions
-are compiled at load time.
+The code above maps URL paths to Python callback functions ("views"). The path
+strings use parameter tags to "capture" values from the URLs. When a user
+requests a page, Django runs through each path, in order, and stops at the
+first one that matches the requested URL. (If none of them matches, Django
+calls a special-case 404 view.) This is blazingly fast, because the paths are
+compiled into regular expressions at load time.
 
-Once one of the regexes matches, Django calls the given view, which is a Python
-function. Each view gets passed a request object -- which contains request
-metadata -- and the values captured in the regex.
+Once one of the URL patterns matches, Django calls the given view, which is a
+Python function. Each view gets passed a request object -- which contains
+request metadata -- and the values captured in the pattern.
 
 For example, if a user requested the URL "/articles/2005/05/39323/", Django
 would call the function ``news.views.article_detail(request,
-'2005', '05', '39323')``.
+year=2005, month=5, pk=39323)``.
 
 Write your views
 ================
diff --git a/docs/intro/reusable-apps.txt b/docs/intro/reusable-apps.txt
index 90d807fd06..5a5038f3a0 100644
--- a/docs/intro/reusable-apps.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/reusable-apps.txt
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ this. For a small app like polls, this process isn't too difficult.
 
        2. Include the polls URLconf in your project urls.py like this::
 
-           url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),
+           path('polls/', include('polls.urls')),
 
        3. Run `python manage.py migrate` to create the polls models.
 
diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial01.txt b/docs/intro/tutorial01.txt
index aef9a1e66f..fca0cca25b 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial01.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial01.txt
@@ -274,55 +274,45 @@ In the ``polls/urls.py`` file include the following code:
 .. snippet::
     :filename: polls/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
 
     from . import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
+        path('', views.index, name='index'),
     ]
 
 The next step is to point the root URLconf at the ``polls.urls`` module. In
-``mysite/urls.py``, add an import for ``django.conf.urls.include`` and insert
-an :func:`~django.conf.urls.include` in the ``urlpatterns`` list, so you have:
+``mysite/urls.py``, add an import for ``django.urls.include`` and insert an
+:func:`~django.urls.include` in the ``urlpatterns`` list, so you have:
 
 .. snippet::
     :filename: mysite/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import include, url
+    from django.urls import include, path
     from django.contrib import admin
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),
-        url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
+        path('polls/', include('polls.urls')),
+        path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
     ]
 
-The :func:`~django.conf.urls.include` function allows referencing other
-URLconfs. Note that the regular expressions for the
-:func:`~django.conf.urls.include` function doesn't have a ``$`` (end-of-string
-match character) but rather a trailing slash. Whenever Django encounters
-:func:`~django.conf.urls.include`, it chops off whatever part of the URL
-matched up to that point and sends the remaining string to the included URLconf
-for further processing.
+The :func:`~django.urls.include` function allows referencing other URLconfs.
+Whenever Django encounters :func:`~django.urls.include`, it chops off whatever
+part of the URL matched up to that point and sends the remaining string to the
+included URLconf for further processing.
 
-The idea behind :func:`~django.conf.urls.include` is to make it easy to
+The idea behind :func:`~django.urls.include` is to make it easy to
 plug-and-play URLs. Since polls are in their own URLconf
 (``polls/urls.py``), they can be placed under "/polls/", or under
 "/fun_polls/", or under "/content/polls/", or any other path root, and the
 app will still work.
 
-.. admonition:: When to use :func:`~django.conf.urls.include()`
+.. admonition:: When to use :func:`~django.urls.include()`
 
     You should always use ``include()`` when you include other URL patterns.
     ``admin.site.urls`` is the only exception to this.
 
-.. admonition:: Doesn't match what you see?
-
-    If you're seeing ``include(admin.site.urls)`` instead of just
-    ``admin.site.urls``, you're probably using a version of Django that
-    doesn't match this tutorial version.  You'll want to either switch to the
-    older tutorial or the newer Django version.
-
 You have now wired an ``index`` view into the URLconf. Lets verify it's
 working, run the following command:
 
@@ -334,56 +324,39 @@ Go to http://localhost:8000/polls/ in your browser, and you should see the
 text "*Hello, world. You're at the polls index.*", which you defined in the
 ``index`` view.
 
-The :func:`~django.conf.urls.url` function is passed four arguments, two
-required: ``regex`` and ``view``, and two optional: ``kwargs``, and ``name``.
+The :func:`~django.urls.path` function is passed four arguments, two required:
+``route`` and ``view``, and two optional: ``kwargs``, and ``name``.
 At this point, it's worth reviewing what these arguments are for.
 
-:func:`~django.conf.urls.url` argument: regex
+:func:`~django.urls.path` argument: ``route``
 ---------------------------------------------
 
-The term "regex" is a commonly used short form meaning "regular expression",
-which is a syntax for matching patterns in strings, or in this case, url
-patterns. Django starts at the first regular expression and makes its way down
-the list,  comparing the requested URL against each regular expression until it
-finds one that matches.
+``route`` is a string that contains a URL pattern. When processing a request,
+Django starts at the first pattern in ``urlpatterns`` and makes its way down
+the list, comparing the requested URL against each pattern until it finds one
+that matches.
 
-Note that these regular expressions do not search GET and POST parameters, or
-the domain name. For example, in a request to
-``https://www.example.com/myapp/``, the URLconf will look for ``myapp/``. In a
-request to ``https://www.example.com/myapp/?page=3``, the URLconf will also
-look for ``myapp/``.
+Patterns don't search GET and POST parameters, or the domain name. For example,
+in a request to ``https://www.example.com/myapp/``, the URLconf will look for
+``myapp/``. In a request to ``https://www.example.com/myapp/?page=3``, the
+URLconf will also look for ``myapp/``.
 
-If you need help with regular expressions, see `Wikipedia's entry`_ and the
-documentation of the :mod:`re` module. Also, the O'Reilly book "Mastering
-Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl is fantastic. In practice, however,
-you don't need to be an expert on regular expressions, as you really only need
-to know how to capture simple patterns. In fact, complex regexes can have poor
-lookup performance, so you probably shouldn't rely on the full power of regexes.
-
-Finally, a performance note: these regular expressions are compiled the first
-time the URLconf module is loaded. They're super fast (as long as the lookups
-aren't too complex as noted above).
-
-.. _Wikipedia's entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
-
-:func:`~django.conf.urls.url` argument: view
+:func:`~django.urls.path` argument: ``view``
 --------------------------------------------
 
-When Django finds a regular expression match, Django calls the specified view
-function, with an :class:`~django.http.HttpRequest` object as the first
-argument and any “captured” values from the regular expression as other
-arguments. If the regex uses simple captures, values are passed as positional
-arguments; if it uses named captures, values are passed as keyword arguments.
-We'll give an example of this in a bit.
+When Django finds a matching pattern, it calls the specified view function with
+an :class:`~django.http.HttpRequest` object as the first argument and any
+"captured" values from the route as keyword arguments. We'll give an example
+of this in a bit.
 
-:func:`~django.conf.urls.url` argument: kwargs
+:func:`~django.urls.path` argument: ``kwargs``
 ----------------------------------------------
 
 Arbitrary keyword arguments can be passed in a dictionary to the target view. We
 aren't going to use this feature of Django in the tutorial.
 
-:func:`~django.conf.urls.url` argument: name
----------------------------------------------
+:func:`~django.urls.path` argument: ``name``
+--------------------------------------------
 
 Naming your URL lets you refer to it unambiguously from elsewhere in Django,
 especially from within templates. This powerful feature allows you to make
diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt b/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
index 2d1104d3d7..32c0c99fd1 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
@@ -53,10 +53,10 @@ A URL pattern is simply the general form of a URL - for example:
 ``/newsarchive/<year>/<month>/``.
 
 To get from a URL to a view, Django uses what are known as 'URLconfs'. A
-URLconf maps URL patterns (described as regular expressions) to views.
+URLconf maps URL patterns to views.
 
 This tutorial provides basic instruction in the use of URLconfs, and you can
-refer to :mod:`django.urls` for more information.
+refer to :doc:`/topics/http/urls` for more information.
 
 Writing more views
 ==================
@@ -78,24 +78,24 @@ slightly different, because they take an argument:
         return HttpResponse("You're voting on question %s." % question_id)
 
 Wire these new views into the ``polls.urls`` module by adding the following
-:func:`~django.conf.urls.url` calls:
+:func:`~django.urls.path` calls:
 
 .. snippet::
     :filename: polls/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
 
     from . import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
         # ex: /polls/
-        url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
+        path('', views.index, name='index'),
         # ex: /polls/5/
-        url(r'^(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)/$', views.detail, name='detail'),
+        path('<int:question_id>/', views.detail, name='detail'),
         # ex: /polls/5/results/
-        url(r'^(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)/results/$', views.results, name='results'),
+        path('<int:question_id>/results/', views.results, name='results'),
         # ex: /polls/5/vote/
-        url(r'^(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)/vote/$', views.vote, name='vote'),
+        path('<int:question_id>/vote/', views.vote, name='vote'),
     ]
 
 Take a look in your browser, at "/polls/34/". It'll run the ``detail()``
@@ -106,26 +106,24 @@ placeholder results and voting pages.
 When somebody requests a page from your website -- say, "/polls/34/", Django
 will load the ``mysite.urls`` Python module because it's pointed to by the
 :setting:`ROOT_URLCONF` setting. It finds the variable named ``urlpatterns``
-and traverses the regular expressions in order. After finding the match at
-``'^polls/'``, it strips off the matching text (``"polls/"``) and sends the
-remaining text -- ``"34/"`` -- to the 'polls.urls' URLconf for further
-processing. There it matches ``r'^(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)/$'``, resulting in a
-call to the ``detail()`` view like so::
+and traverses the patterns in order. After finding the match at ``'polls/'``,
+it strips off the matching text (``"polls/"``) and sends the remaining text --
+``"34/"`` -- to the 'polls.urls' URLconf for further processing. There it
+matches ``'<int:question_id>/'``, resulting in a call to the ``detail()`` view
+like so::
 
-    detail(request=<HttpRequest object>, question_id='34')
+    detail(request=<HttpRequest object>, question_id=34)
 
-The ``question_id='34'`` part comes from ``(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)``. Using parentheses
-around a pattern "captures" the text matched by that pattern and sends it as an
-argument to the view function; ``?P<question_id>`` defines the name that will
-be used to identify the matched pattern; and ``[0-9]+`` is a regular expression to
-match a sequence of digits (i.e., a number).
+The ``question_id=34`` part comes from ``<int:question_id>``. Using angle
+brackets "captures" part of the URL and sends it as a keyword argument to the
+view function. The ``:question_id>`` part of the string defines the name that
+will be used to identify the matched pattern, and the ``<int:`` part is a
+converter that determines what patterns should match this part of the URL path.
 
-Because the URL patterns are regular expressions, there really is no limit on
-what you can do with them. And there's no need to add URL cruft such as
-``.html`` -- unless you want to, in which case you can do something like
-this::
+There's no need to add URL cruft such as ``.html`` -- unless you want to, in
+which case you can do something like this::
 
-    url(r'^polls/latest\.html$', views.index),
+    path('polls/latest.html', views.index),
 
 But, don't do that. It's silly.
 
@@ -388,7 +386,7 @@ template, the link was partially hardcoded like this:
 
 The problem with this hardcoded, tightly-coupled approach is that it becomes
 challenging to change URLs on projects with a lot of templates. However, since
-you defined the name argument in the :func:`~django.conf.urls.url` functions in
+you defined the name argument in the :func:`~django.urls.path` functions in
 the ``polls.urls`` module, you can remove a reliance on specific URL paths
 defined in your url configurations by using the ``{% url %}`` template tag:
 
@@ -402,7 +400,7 @@ defined below::
 
     ...
     # the 'name' value as called by the {% url %} template tag
-    url(r'^(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)/$', views.detail, name='detail'),
+    path('<int:question_id>/', views.detail, name='detail'),
     ...
 
 If you want to change the URL of the polls detail view to something else,
@@ -411,7 +409,7 @@ template (or templates) you would change it in ``polls/urls.py``::
 
     ...
     # added the word 'specifics'
-    url(r'^specifics/(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)/$', views.detail, name='detail'),
+    path('specifics/<int:question_id>/', views.detail, name='detail'),
     ...
 
 Namespacing URL names
@@ -430,16 +428,16 @@ file, go ahead and add an ``app_name`` to set the application namespace:
 .. snippet::
     :filename: polls/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
 
     from . import views
 
     app_name = 'polls'
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
-        url(r'^(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)/$', views.detail, name='detail'),
-        url(r'^(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)/results/$', views.results, name='results'),
-        url(r'^(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)/vote/$', views.vote, name='vote'),
+        path('', views.index, name='index'),
+        path('<int:question_id>/', views.detail, name='detail'),
+        path('<int:question_id>/results/', views.results, name='results'),
+        path('<int:question_id>/vote/', views.vote, name='vote'),
     ]
 
 Now change your ``polls/index.html`` template from:
diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial04.txt b/docs/intro/tutorial04.txt
index f320476548..6f685fc402 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial04.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial04.txt
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ created a URLconf for the polls application that includes this line:
 .. snippet::
     :filename: polls/urls.py
 
-    url(r'^(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)/vote/$', views.vote, name='vote'),
+    path('<int:question_id>/vote/', views.vote, name='vote'),
 
 We also created a dummy implementation of the ``vote()`` function. Let's
 create a real version. Add the following to ``polls/views.py``:
@@ -237,20 +237,20 @@ First, open the ``polls/urls.py`` URLconf and change it like so:
 .. snippet::
     :filename: polls/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
 
     from . import views
 
     app_name = 'polls'
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^$', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
-        url(r'^(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
-        url(r'^(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/results/$', views.ResultsView.as_view(), name='results'),
-        url(r'^(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)/vote/$', views.vote, name='vote'),
+        path('', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
+        path('<int:pk>/', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
+        path('<int:pk>/results/', views.ResultsView.as_view(), name='results'),
+        path('<int:question_id>/vote/', views.vote, name='vote'),
     ]
 
-Note that the name of the matched pattern in the regexes of the second and third
-patterns has changed from ``<question_id>`` to ``<pk>``.
+Note that the name of the matched pattern in the path strings of the second and
+third patterns has changed from ``<question_id>`` to ``<pk>``.
 
 Amend views
 -----------
diff --git a/docs/ref/checks.txt b/docs/ref/checks.txt
index 0ca1d176f4..45bef40688 100644
--- a/docs/ref/checks.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/checks.txt
@@ -444,18 +444,18 @@ URLs
 The following checks are performed on your URL configuration:
 
 * **urls.W001**: Your URL pattern ``<pattern>`` uses
-  :func:`~django.conf.urls.include` with a ``regex`` ending with a
-  ``$``. Remove the dollar from the ``regex`` to avoid problems
-  including URLs.
-* **urls.W002**: Your URL pattern ``<pattern>`` has a ``regex``
-  beginning with a ``/``. Remove this slash as it is unnecessary.
-  If this pattern is targeted in an :func:`~django.conf.urls.include`, ensure
-  the :func:`~django.conf.urls.include` pattern has a trailing ``/``.
+  :func:`~django.urls.include` with a ``route`` ending with a ``$``. Remove the
+  dollar from the ``route`` to avoid problems including URLs.
+* **urls.W002**: Your URL pattern ``<pattern>`` has a ``route`` beginning with
+  a ``/``. Remove this slash as it is unnecessary. If this pattern is targeted
+  in an :func:`~django.urls.include`, ensure the :func:`~django.urls.include`
+  pattern has a trailing ``/``.
 * **urls.W003**: Your URL pattern ``<pattern>`` has a ``name``
   including a ``:``. Remove the colon, to avoid ambiguous namespace
   references.
 * **urls.E004**: Your URL pattern ``<pattern>`` is invalid. Ensure that
-  ``urlpatterns`` is a list of :func:`~django.conf.urls.url()` instances.
+  ``urlpatterns`` is a list of :func:`~django.urls.path` and/or
+  :func:`~django.urls.re_path` instances.
 * **urls.W005**: URL namespace ``<namespace>`` isn't unique. You may not be
   able to reverse all URLs in this namespace.
 * **urls.E006**: The :setting:`MEDIA_URL`/ :setting:`STATIC_URL` setting must
diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
index 6230f1181e..6ef72176c3 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
@@ -40,12 +40,12 @@ MRO is an acronym for Method Resolution Order.
 
     **Example urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import url
+        from django.urls import path
 
         from myapp.views import MyView
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(r'^mine/$', MyView.as_view(), name='my-view'),
+            path('mine/', MyView.as_view(), name='my-view'),
         ]
 
     **Attributes**
@@ -144,12 +144,12 @@ MRO is an acronym for Method Resolution Order.
 
     **Example urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import url
+        from django.urls import path
 
         from myapp.views import HomePageView
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(r'^$', HomePageView.as_view(), name='home'),
+            path('', HomePageView.as_view(), name='home'),
         ]
 
     **Context**
@@ -208,15 +208,15 @@ MRO is an acronym for Method Resolution Order.
 
     **Example urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import url
+        from django.urls import path
         from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
 
         from article.views import ArticleCounterRedirectView, ArticleDetail
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(r'^counter/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', ArticleCounterRedirectView.as_view(), name='article-counter'),
-            url(r'^details/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', ArticleDetail.as_view(), name='article-detail'),
-            url(r'^go-to-django/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='https://djangoproject.com'), name='go-to-django'),
+            path('counter/<int:pk>/', ArticleCounterRedirectView.as_view(), name='article-counter'),
+            path('details/<int:pk>/', ArticleDetail.as_view(), name='article-detail'),
+            path('go-to-django/', RedirectView.as_view(url='https://djangoproject.com'), name='go-to-django'),
         ]
 
     **Attributes**
diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt
index 7b50d099ba..a42896c058 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt
@@ -63,15 +63,15 @@ views for displaying drilldown pages for date-based data.
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import url
+        from django.urls import path
         from django.views.generic.dates import ArchiveIndexView
 
         from myapp.models import Article
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(r'^archive/$',
-                ArchiveIndexView.as_view(model=Article, date_field="pub_date"),
-                name="article_archive"),
+            path('archive/',
+                 ArchiveIndexView.as_view(model=Article, date_field="pub_date"),
+                 name="article_archive"),
         ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_archive.html**:
@@ -162,14 +162,14 @@ views for displaying drilldown pages for date-based data.
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import url
+        from django.urls import path
 
         from myapp.views import ArticleYearArchiveView
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(r'^(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/$',
-                ArticleYearArchiveView.as_view(),
-                name="article_year_archive"),
+            path('<int:year>/',
+                 ArticleYearArchiveView.as_view(),
+                 name="article_year_archive"),
         ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_archive_year.html**:
@@ -254,19 +254,19 @@ views for displaying drilldown pages for date-based data.
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import url
+        from django.urls import path
 
         from myapp.views import ArticleMonthArchiveView
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            # Example: /2012/aug/
-            url(r'^(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[-\w]+)/$',
-                ArticleMonthArchiveView.as_view(),
-                name="archive_month"),
             # Example: /2012/08/
-            url(r'^(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[0-9]+)/$',
-                ArticleMonthArchiveView.as_view(month_format='%m'),
-                name="archive_month_numeric"),
+            path('<int:year>/<int:month>/',
+                 ArticleMonthArchiveView.as_view(month_format='%m'),
+                 name="archive_month_numeric"),
+            # Example: /2012/aug/
+            path('<int:year>/<str:month>/',
+                 ArticleMonthArchiveView.as_view(),
+                 name="archive_month"),
         ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_archive_month.html**:
@@ -356,15 +356,15 @@ views for displaying drilldown pages for date-based data.
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import url
+        from django.urls import path
 
         from myapp.views import ArticleWeekArchiveView
 
         urlpatterns = [
             # Example: /2012/week/23/
-            url(r'^(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/week/(?P<week>[0-9]+)/$',
-                ArticleWeekArchiveView.as_view(),
-                name="archive_week"),
+            path('<int:year>/week/<int:week>/',
+                 ArticleWeekArchiveView.as_view(),
+                 name="archive_week"),
         ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_archive_week.html**:
@@ -468,15 +468,15 @@ views for displaying drilldown pages for date-based data.
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import url
+        from django.urls import path
 
         from myapp.views import ArticleDayArchiveView
 
         urlpatterns = [
             # Example: /2012/nov/10/
-            url(r'^(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[-\w]+)/(?P<day>[0-9]+)/$',
-                ArticleDayArchiveView.as_view(),
-                name="archive_day"),
+            path('<int:year>/<str:month>/<int:day>/',
+                 ArticleDayArchiveView.as_view(),
+                 name="archive_day"),
         ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_archive_day.html**:
@@ -541,14 +541,14 @@ views for displaying drilldown pages for date-based data.
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import url
+        from django.urls import path
 
         from myapp.views import ArticleTodayArchiveView
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(r'^today/$',
-                ArticleTodayArchiveView.as_view(),
-                name="archive_today"),
+            path('today/',
+                 ArticleTodayArchiveView.as_view(),
+                 name="archive_today"),
         ]
 
     .. admonition:: Where is the example template for ``TodayArchiveView``?
@@ -591,13 +591,13 @@ views for displaying drilldown pages for date-based data.
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import url
+        from django.urls import path
         from django.views.generic.dates import DateDetailView
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(r'^(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[-\w]+)/(?P<day>[0-9]+)/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$',
-                DateDetailView.as_view(model=Article, date_field="pub_date"),
-                name="archive_date_detail"),
+            path('<int:year>/<str:month>/<int:day>/<int:pk>/',
+                 DateDetailView.as_view(model=Article, date_field="pub_date"),
+                 name="archive_date_detail"),
         ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_detail.html**:
diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-display.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-display.txt
index 70da1803d6..16975bdbea 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-display.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-display.txt
@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ many projects they are typically the most commonly used views.
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import url
+        from django.urls import path
 
         from article.views import ArticleDetailView
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(r'^(?P<slug>[-\w]+)/$', ArticleDetailView.as_view(), name='article-detail'),
+            path('<slug>/', ArticleDetailView.as_view(), name='article-detail'),
         ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_detail.html**:
@@ -123,12 +123,12 @@ many projects they are typically the most commonly used views.
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import url
+        from django.urls import path
 
         from article.views import ArticleListView
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(r'^$', ArticleListView.as_view(), name='article-list'),
+            path('', ArticleListView.as_view(), name='article-list'),
         ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_list.html**:
diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/index.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/index.txt
index 17bd5315ff..5187000385 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/index.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/index.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ A class-based view is deployed into a URL pattern using the
 :meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view()` classmethod::
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^view/$', MyView.as_view(size=42)),
+        path('view/', MyView.as_view(size=42)),
     ]
 
 .. admonition:: Thread safety with view arguments
diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/mixins-multiple-object.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/mixins-multiple-object.txt
index 58260391a8..8f6fcb8d48 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/mixins-multiple-object.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/mixins-multiple-object.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Multiple object mixins
     * Use the ``page`` parameter in the URLconf. For example, this is what
       your URLconf might look like::
 
-        url(r'^objects/page(?P<page>[0-9]+)/$', PaginatedView.as_view()),
+        path('objects/page<int:page>/', PaginatedView.as_view()),
 
     * Pass the page number via the ``page`` query-string parameter. For
       example, a URL would look like this::
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/admindocs.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/admindocs.txt
index 461813f985..e519bd8ed1 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/admindocs.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/admindocs.txt
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ To activate the :mod:`~django.contrib.admindocs`, you will need to do
 the following:
 
 * Add :mod:`django.contrib.admindocs` to your :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`.
-* Add ``url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls'))`` to
+* Add ``path('admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls'))`` to
   your ``urlpatterns``. Make sure it's included *before* the
-  ``r'^admin/'`` entry, so that requests to ``/admin/doc/`` don't get
+  ``'admin/'`` entry, so that requests to ``/admin/doc/`` don't get
   handled by the latter entry.
 * Install the docutils Python module (http://docutils.sf.net/).
 * **Optional:** Using the admindocs bookmarklets requires
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
index 2541bc9aa1..adbd18ef74 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
@@ -1587,11 +1587,15 @@ templates used by the :class:`ModelAdmin` views:
     that ModelAdmin in the same way as a URLconf.  Therefore you can extend
     them as documented in :doc:`/topics/http/urls`::
 
+        from django.contrib import admin
+        from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
+        from django.urls import path
+
         class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
             def get_urls(self):
                 urls = super().get_urls()
                 my_urls = [
-                    url(r'^my_view/$', self.my_view),
+                    path('my_view/', self.my_view),
                 ]
                 return my_urls + urls
 
@@ -1643,13 +1647,13 @@ templates used by the :class:`ModelAdmin` views:
             def get_urls(self):
                 urls = super().get_urls()
                 my_urls = [
-                    url(r'^my_view/$', self.admin_site.admin_view(self.my_view))
+                    path('my_view/', self.admin_site.admin_view(self.my_view))
                 ]
                 return my_urls + urls
 
     Notice the wrapped view in the fifth line above::
 
-        url(r'^my_view/$', self.admin_site.admin_view(self.my_view))
+        path('my_view/', self.admin_site.admin_view(self.my_view))
 
     This wrapping will protect ``self.my_view`` from unauthorized access and
     will apply the :func:`django.views.decorators.cache.never_cache` decorator to
@@ -1659,7 +1663,7 @@ templates used by the :class:`ModelAdmin` views:
     performed, you can pass a ``cacheable=True`` argument to
     ``AdminSite.admin_view()``::
 
-        url(r'^my_view/$', self.admin_site.admin_view(self.my_view, cacheable=True))
+        path('my_view/', self.admin_site.admin_view(self.my_view, cacheable=True))
 
     ``ModelAdmin`` views have ``model_admin`` attributes. Other
     ``AdminSite`` views have ``admin_site`` attributes.
@@ -2767,17 +2771,17 @@ Hooking ``AdminSite`` instances into your URLconf
 The last step in setting up the Django admin is to hook your ``AdminSite``
 instance into your URLconf. Do this by pointing a given URL at the
 ``AdminSite.urls`` method. It is not necessary to use
-:func:`~django.conf.urls.include()`.
+:func:`~django.urls.include()`.
 
 In this example, we register the default ``AdminSite`` instance
 ``django.contrib.admin.site`` at the URL ``/admin/`` ::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import url
     from django.contrib import admin
+    from django.urls import path
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
+        path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
     ]
 
 .. _customizing-adminsite:
@@ -2809,12 +2813,12 @@ update :file:`myproject/urls.py` to reference your :class:`AdminSite` subclass.
 .. snippet::
     :filename: myproject/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
 
     from myapp.admin import admin_site
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^myadmin/', admin_site.urls),
+        path('myadmin/', admin_site.urls),
     ]
 
 Note that you may not want autodiscovery of ``admin`` modules when using your
@@ -2838,12 +2842,12 @@ separate versions of the admin site -- using the ``AdminSite`` instances
 respectively::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from myproject.admin import basic_site, advanced_site
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^basic-admin/', basic_site.urls),
-        url(r'^advanced-admin/', advanced_site.urls),
+        path('basic-admin/', basic_site.urls),
+        path('advanced-admin/', advanced_site.urls),
     ]
 
 ``AdminSite`` instances take a single argument to their constructor, their
@@ -2879,23 +2883,23 @@ your URLconf. Specifically, add these four patterns::
 
     from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
 
-    url(
-        r'^admin/password_reset/$',
+    path(
+        'admin/password_reset/',
         auth_views.PasswordResetView.as_view(),
         name='admin_password_reset',
     ),
-    url(
-        r'^admin/password_reset/done/$',
+    path(
+        'admin/password_reset/done/',
         auth_views.PasswordResetDoneView.as_view(),
         name='password_reset_done',
     ),
-    url(
-        r'^reset/(?P<uidb64>[0-9A-Za-z_\-]+)/(?P<token>.+)/$',
+    path(
+        'reset/<uidb64>/<token>/',
         auth_views.PasswordResetConfirmView.as_view(),
         name='password_reset_confirm',
     ),
-    url(
-        r'^reset/done/$',
+    path(
+        'reset/done/',
         auth_views.PasswordResetCompleteView.as_view(),
         name='password_reset_complete',
     ),
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/flatpages.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/flatpages.txt
index 4dcd4b9a5a..5d34ad6bea 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/flatpages.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/flatpages.txt
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Then either:
 3. Add an entry in your URLconf. For example::
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^pages/', include('django.contrib.flatpages.urls')),
+        path('pages/', include('django.contrib.flatpages.urls')),
     ]
 
 or:
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ There are several ways to include the flat pages in your URLconf. You can
 dedicate a particular path to flat pages::
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^pages/', include('django.contrib.flatpages.urls')),
+        path('pages/', include('django.contrib.flatpages.urls')),
     ]
 
 You can also set it up as a "catchall" pattern. In this case, it is important
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ to place the pattern at the end of the other urlpatterns::
 
     # Your other patterns here
     urlpatterns += [
-        url(r'^(?P<url>.*/)$', views.flatpage),
+        path('<path:url>', views.flatpage),
     ]
 
 .. warning::
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ tag::
     from django.contrib.flatpages import views
 
     urlpatterns += [
-        url(r'^about-us/$', views.flatpage, {'url': '/about-us/'}, name='about'),
-        url(r'^license/$', views.flatpage, {'url': '/license/'}, name='license'),
+        path('about-us/', views.flatpage, {'url': '/about-us/'}, name='about'),
+        path('license/', views.flatpage, {'url': '/license/'}, name='license'),
     ]
 
 Using the middleware
@@ -345,15 +345,15 @@ Example
 
 Here's an example of a URLconf using :class:`FlatPageSitemap`::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
     from django.contrib.flatpages.sitemaps import FlatPageSitemap
     from django.contrib.sitemaps.views import sitemap
+    from django.urls import path
 
     urlpatterns = [
         # ...
 
         # the sitemap
-        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', sitemap,
+        path('sitemap.xml', sitemap,
             {'sitemaps': {'flatpages': FlatPageSitemap}},
             name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap'),
     ]
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt
index 7ab3c81415..10f97333cc 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt
@@ -716,11 +716,11 @@ Let's dive right in.  Create a file called ``admin.py`` inside the
 
 Next, edit your ``urls.py`` in the ``geodjango`` application folder as follows::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url, include
     from django.contrib.gis import admin
+    from django.urls import path, include
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
+        path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
     ]
 
 Create an admin user:
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt
index 9196bc2a5f..dd720a8bb0 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ To activate sitemap generation on your Django site, add this line to your
 
     from django.contrib.sitemaps.views import sitemap
 
-    url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', sitemap, {'sitemaps': sitemaps},
-        name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap')
+    path('sitemap.xml', sitemap, {'sitemaps': sitemaps},
+         name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap')
 
 This tells Django to build a sitemap when a client accesses :file:`/sitemap.xml`.
 
@@ -283,9 +283,9 @@ Example
 Here's an example of a :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>` using
 :class:`GenericSitemap`::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
     from django.contrib.sitemaps import GenericSitemap
     from django.contrib.sitemaps.views import sitemap
+    from django.urls import path
     from blog.models import Entry
 
     info_dict = {
@@ -298,9 +298,9 @@ Here's an example of a :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>` using
         # ...
 
         # the sitemap
-        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', sitemap,
-            {'sitemaps': {'blog': GenericSitemap(info_dict, priority=0.6)}},
-            name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap'),
+        path('sitemap.xml', sitemap,
+             {'sitemaps': {'blog': GenericSitemap(info_dict, priority=0.6)}},
+             name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap'),
     ]
 
 .. _URLconf: ../url_dispatch/
@@ -328,8 +328,8 @@ the ``location`` method of the sitemap. For example::
             return reverse(item)
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import url
     from django.contrib.sitemaps.views import sitemap
+    from django.urls import path
 
     from .sitemaps import StaticViewSitemap
     from . import views
@@ -339,12 +339,12 @@ the ``location`` method of the sitemap. For example::
     }
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^$', views.main, name='main'),
-        url(r'^about/$', views.about, name='about'),
-        url(r'^license/$', views.license, name='license'),
+        path('', views.main, name='main'),
+        path('about/', views.about, name='about'),
+        path('license/', views.license, name='license'),
         # ...
-        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', sitemap, {'sitemaps': sitemaps},
-            name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap')
+        path('sitemap.xml', sitemap, {'sitemaps': sitemaps},
+             name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap')
     ]
 
 
@@ -367,9 +367,9 @@ Here's what the relevant URLconf lines would look like for the example above::
     from django.contrib.sitemaps import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', views.index, {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
-        url(r'^sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml$', views.sitemap, {'sitemaps': sitemaps},
-            name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap'),
+        path('sitemap.xml', views.index, {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
+        path('sitemap-<section>.xml', views.sitemap, {'sitemaps': sitemaps},
+             name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap'),
     ]
 
 This will automatically generate a :file:`sitemap.xml` file that references
@@ -389,12 +389,12 @@ with a caching decorator -- you must name your sitemap view and pass
     from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$',
-            cache_page(86400)(sitemaps_views.index),
-            {'sitemaps': sitemaps, 'sitemap_url_name': 'sitemaps'}),
-        url(r'^sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml$',
-            cache_page(86400)(sitemaps_views.sitemap),
-            {'sitemaps': sitemaps}, name='sitemaps'),
+        path('sitemap.xml',
+             cache_page(86400)(sitemaps_views.index),
+             {'sitemaps': sitemaps, 'sitemap_url_name': 'sitemaps'}),
+        path('sitemap-<section>.xml',
+             cache_page(86400)(sitemaps_views.sitemap),
+             {'sitemaps': sitemaps}, name='sitemaps'),
     ]
 
 
@@ -408,11 +408,11 @@ parameter to the ``sitemap`` and ``index`` views via the URLconf::
     from django.contrib.sitemaps import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^custom-sitemap\.xml$', views.index, {
+        path('custom-sitemap.xml', views.index, {
             'sitemaps': sitemaps,
             'template_name': 'custom_sitemap.html'
         }),
-        url(r'^custom-sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml$', views.sitemap, {
+        path('custom-sitemap-<section>.xml', views.sitemap, {
             'sitemaps': sitemaps,
             'template_name': 'custom_sitemap.html'
         }, name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap'),
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/staticfiles.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/staticfiles.txt
index b8cadb5ec8..389f2edbc8 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/staticfiles.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/staticfiles.txt
@@ -462,10 +462,11 @@ primary URL configuration::
 
    from django.conf import settings
    from django.contrib.staticfiles import views
+   from django.urls import re_path
 
    if settings.DEBUG:
        urlpatterns += [
-           url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', views.serve),
+           re_path(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', views.serve),
        ]
 
 Note, the beginning of the pattern (``r'^static/'``) should be your
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/syndication.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/syndication.txt
index d8e59edc85..8fa5965a72 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/syndication.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/syndication.txt
@@ -77,12 +77,12 @@ a feed of the latest five news items::
 To connect a URL to this feed, put an instance of the Feed object in
 your :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>`. For example::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from myproject.feeds import LatestEntriesFeed
 
     urlpatterns = [
         # ...
-        url(r'^latest/feed/$', LatestEntriesFeed()),
+        path('latest/feed/', LatestEntriesFeed()),
         # ...
     ]
 
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ The police beat feeds could be accessible via URLs like this:
 
 These can be matched with a :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>` line such as::
 
-    url(r'^beats/(?P<beat_id>[0-9]+)/rss/$', BeatFeed()),
+    path('beats/<int:beat_id>/rss/', BeatFeed()),
 
 Like a view, the arguments in the URL are passed to the ``get_object()``
 method along with the request object.
@@ -366,13 +366,13 @@ Here's a full example::
 
 And the accompanying URLconf::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from myproject.feeds import RssSiteNewsFeed, AtomSiteNewsFeed
 
     urlpatterns = [
         # ...
-        url(r'^sitenews/rss/$', RssSiteNewsFeed()),
-        url(r'^sitenews/atom/$', AtomSiteNewsFeed()),
+        path('sitenews/rss/', RssSiteNewsFeed()),
+        path('sitenews/atom/', AtomSiteNewsFeed()),
         # ...
     ]
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
index c4ad02f529..49e07aeec2 100644
--- a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
@@ -1115,11 +1115,11 @@ hard-code URLs in your templates::
 
     {% url 'some-url-name' v1 v2 %}
 
-The first argument is a :func:`~django.conf.urls.url` ``name``. It can be a
-quoted literal or any other context variable. Additional arguments are optional
-and should be space-separated values that will be used as arguments in the URL.
-The example above shows passing positional arguments. Alternatively you may
-use keyword syntax::
+The first argument is a :ref:`URL pattern name <naming-url-patterns>`. It can
+be a quoted literal or any other context variable. Additional arguments are
+optional and should be space-separated values that will be used as arguments in
+the URL. The example above shows passing positional arguments. Alternatively
+you may use keyword syntax::
 
     {% url 'some-url-name' arg1=v1 arg2=v2 %}
 
@@ -1132,14 +1132,14 @@ takes a client ID (here, ``client()`` is a method inside the views file
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-    ('^client/([0-9]+)/$', app_views.client, name='app-views-client')
+    path('client/<int:id>/', app_views.client, name='app-views-client')
 
 If this app's URLconf is included into the project's URLconf under a path
 such as this:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-    ('^clients/', include('project_name.app_name.urls'))
+    path('clients/', include('project_name.app_name.urls'))
 
 ...then, in a template, you can create a link to this view like this::
 
@@ -1179,8 +1179,8 @@ by the context as to the current application.
 
 .. warning::
 
-    Don't forget to put quotes around the :func:`~django.conf.urls.url`
-    ``name``, otherwise the value will be interpreted as a context variable!
+    Don't forget to put quotes around the URL pattern ``name``, otherwise the
+    value will be interpreted as a context variable!
 
 .. templatetag:: verbatim
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/urlresolvers.txt b/docs/ref/urlresolvers.txt
index 2e6bc463dd..aa814a9e40 100644
--- a/docs/ref/urlresolvers.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/urlresolvers.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ callable view object. For example, given the following ``url``::
 
     from news import views
 
-    url(r'^archive/$', views.archive, name='news-archive')
+    path('archive/', views.archive, name='news-archive')
 
 you can use any of the following to reverse the URL::
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/urls.txt b/docs/ref/urls.txt
index 3b6a66032d..f290276dec 100644
--- a/docs/ref/urls.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/urls.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,79 @@
 .. module:: django.urls.conf
     :synopsis: Functions for use in URLconfs.
 
-.. currentmodule:: django.conf.urls
+.. currentmodule:: django.urls
+
+``path()``
+==========
+
+.. function:: path(route, view, kwargs=None, name=None)
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.0
+
+Returns an element for inclusion in ``urlpatterns``. For example::
+
+    from django.urls import include, path
+
+    urlpatterns = [
+        path('index/', views.index, name='main-view'),
+        path('bio/<username>/', views.bio, name='bio'),
+        path('articles/<slug:title>/', views.article, name='article-detail'),
+        path('articles/<slug:title>/<int:section>/', views.section, name='article-section'),
+        path('weblog/', include('blog.urls')),
+        ...
+    ]
+
+The ``route`` argument should be a string or
+:func:`~django.utils.translation.gettext_lazy()` (see
+:ref:`translating-urlpatterns`) that contains a URL pattern. The string
+may contain angle brackets (like ``<username>`` above) to capture part of the
+URL and send it as a keyword argument to the view. The angle brackets may
+include a converter specification (like the ``int`` part of ``<int:section>``)
+which limits the characters matched and may also change the type of the
+variable passed to the view. For example, ``<int:section>`` matches a string
+of decimal digits and converts the value to an ``int``. See
+:ref:`how-django-processes-a-request` for more details.
+
+The ``view`` argument is a view function or the result of
+:meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` for class-based views. It can
+also be an :func:`django.urls.include`.
+
+The ``kwargs`` argument allows you to pass additional arguments to the view
+function or method. See :ref:`views-extra-options` for an example.
+
+See :ref:`Naming URL patterns <naming-url-patterns>` for why the ``name``
+argument is useful.
+
+``re_path()``
+=============
+
+.. function:: re_path(route, view, kwargs=None, name=None)
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.0
+
+Returns an element for inclusion in ``urlpatterns``. For example::
+
+    from django.urls import include, re_path
+
+    urlpatterns = [
+        re_path(r'^index/$', views.index, name='index'),
+        re_path(r'^bio/(?P<username>\w+)/$', views.bio, name='bio'),
+        re_path(r'^weblog/', include('blog.urls')),
+        ...
+    ]
+
+The ``route`` argument should be a string or
+:func:`~django.utils.translation.gettext_lazy()` (see
+:ref:`translating-urlpatterns`) that contains a regular expression compatible
+with Python's :py:mod:`re` module. Strings typically use raw string syntax
+(``r''``) so that they can contain sequences like ``\d`` without the need to
+escape the backslash with another backslash. When a match is made, captured
+groups from the regular expression are passed to the view -- as named arguments
+if the groups are named, and as positional arguments otherwise. The values are
+passed as strings, without any type conversion.
+
+The ``view``, ``kwargs`` and ``name`` arguments are the same as for
+:func:`~django.urls.path()`.
 
 ``include()``
 =============
@@ -30,7 +102,7 @@
     :arg module: URLconf module (or module name)
     :arg namespace: Instance namespace for the URL entries being included
     :type namespace: string
-    :arg pattern_list: Iterable of :func:`django.conf.urls.url` instances
+    :arg pattern_list: Iterable of :func:`~django.urls.path` and/or :func:`~django.urls.re_path` instances.
     :arg app_namespace: Application namespace for the URL entries being included
     :type app_namespace: string
     :arg instance_namespace: Instance namespace for the URL entries being included
@@ -43,6 +115,20 @@ See :ref:`including-other-urlconfs` and :ref:`namespaces-and-include`.
     In older versions, this function is located in ``django.conf.urls``. The
     old location still works for backwards compatibility.
 
+``register_converter()``
+========================
+
+.. function:: register_converter(converter, type_name)
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.0
+
+The function for registering a converter for use in :func:`~django.urls.path()`
+``route``\s.
+
+The ``converter`` argument is a converter class, and ``type_name`` is the
+converter name to use in path patterns. See
+:ref:`registering-custom-path-converters` for an example.
+
 ==================================================
 ``django.conf.urls`` functions for use in URLconfs
 ==================================================
@@ -68,32 +154,8 @@ Helper function to return a URL pattern for serving files in debug mode::
 
 .. function:: url(regex, view, kwargs=None, name=None)
 
-``urlpatterns`` should be a list of ``url()`` instances. For example::
-
-    from django.conf.urls import include, url
-
-    urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^index/$', index_view, name='main-view'),
-        url(r'^weblog/', include('blog.urls')),
-        ...
-    ]
-
-The ``regex`` parameter should be a string or
-:func:`~django.utils.translation.gettext_lazy()` (see
-:ref:`translating-urlpatterns`) that contains a regular expression compatible
-with Python's :py:mod:`re` module. Strings typically use raw string syntax
-(``r''``) so that they can contain sequences like ``\d`` without the need to
-escape the backslash with another backslash.
-
-The ``view`` parameter is a view function or the result of
-:meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` for class-based views. It can
-also be an :func:`include`.
-
-The ``kwargs`` parameter allows you to pass additional arguments to the view
-function or method. See :ref:`views-extra-options` for an example.
-
-See :ref:`Naming URL patterns <naming-url-patterns>` for why the ``name``
-parameter is useful.
+This function is an alias to :func:`django.urls.re_path()`. It's likely to be
+deprecated in a future release.
 
 ``handler400``
 ==============
diff --git a/docs/ref/utils.txt b/docs/ref/utils.txt
index 240cb80485..55a733f376 100644
--- a/docs/ref/utils.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/utils.txt
@@ -823,8 +823,8 @@ appropriate entities.
         from django.utils.translation import pgettext_lazy
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(format_lazy(r'{person}/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', person=pgettext_lazy('URL', 'person')),
-                PersonDetailView.as_view()),
+            path(format_lazy('{person}/<int:pk>/', person=pgettext_lazy('URL', 'person')),
+                 PersonDetailView.as_view()),
         ]
 
     This example allows translators to translate part of the URL. If "person"
diff --git a/docs/ref/views.txt b/docs/ref/views.txt
index dd1897c915..37204e2fda 100644
--- a/docs/ref/views.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/views.txt
@@ -26,13 +26,14 @@ built-in handling for user-uploaded files, but you can have Django serve your
 :setting:`MEDIA_ROOT` by appending something like this to your URLconf::
 
     from django.conf import settings
+    from django.urls import re_path
     from django.views.static import serve
 
     # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
 
     if settings.DEBUG:
         urlpatterns += [
-            url(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', serve, {
+            re_path(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', serve, {
                 'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT,
             }),
         ]
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.4.txt b/docs/releases/1.4.txt
index 3a8b52db57..13cff1f0b3 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.4.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.4.txt
@@ -1229,9 +1229,8 @@ disable this backward-compatibility shim and deprecation warning.
 ``django.conf.urls.defaults``
 -----------------------------
 
-Until Django 1.3, the functions :func:`~django.conf.urls.include`,
-``patterns()`` and :func:`~django.conf.urls.url` plus
-:data:`~django.conf.urls.handler404`, :data:`~django.conf.urls.handler500`
+Until Django 1.3, the ``include()``, ``patterns()``, and ``url()`` functions,
+plus :data:`~django.conf.urls.handler404` and :data:`~django.conf.urls.handler500`
 were located in a ``django.conf.urls.defaults`` module.
 
 In Django 1.4, they live in :mod:`django.conf.urls`.
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.9.txt b/docs/releases/1.9.txt
index 9d0d9efd93..2b012191cd 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.9.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.9.txt
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ URLs
 * The application namespace can now be set using an ``app_name`` attribute
   on the included module or object. It can also be set by passing a 2-tuple
   of (<list of patterns>, <application namespace>) as the first argument to
-  :func:`~django.conf.urls.include`.
+  ``include()``.
 
 * System checks have been added for common URL pattern mistakes.
 
@@ -1233,8 +1233,8 @@ extending. This change necessitated a new template loader API. The old
 Details about the new API can be found :ref:`in the template loader
 documentation <custom-template-loaders>`.
 
-Passing a 3-tuple or an ``app_name`` to :func:`~django.conf.urls.include()`
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Passing a 3-tuple or an ``app_name`` to ``include()``
+-----------------------------------------------------
 
 The instance namespace part of passing a tuple as an argument to ``include()``
 has been replaced by passing the ``namespace`` argument to ``include()``. For
diff --git a/docs/releases/2.0.txt b/docs/releases/2.0.txt
index b45e494800..457e69ea9e 100644
--- a/docs/releases/2.0.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/2.0.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,32 @@ be compatible with Django 2.0.
 What's new in Django 2.0
 ========================
 
+Simplified URL routing syntax
+-----------------------------
+
+The new :func:`django.urls.path()` function allows a simpler, more readable URL
+routing syntax. For example, this example from previous Django releases::
+
+    url(r'^articles/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/$', views.year_archive),
+
+could be written as::
+
+    path('articles/<int:year>/', views.year_archive),
+
+The new syntax supports type coercion of URL parameters. In the example, the
+view will receive the ``year`` keyword argument as an integer rather than as
+a string.
+
+The ``django.conf.urls.url()`` function from previous versions is now available
+as :func:`django.urls.re_path`, however, the old location remains for backwards
+compatibility, without an imminent deprecation. The old
+``django.conf.urls.include()`` function is now importable from ``django.urls``
+so you can use ``from django.urls import include, path, re_path`` in your
+URLconfs.
+
+The :doc:`/topics/http/urls` document is rewritten to feature the new syntax
+and provide more details.
+
 Mobile-friendly ``contrib.admin``
 ---------------------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
index 4d8fbc37c9..85398f428f 100644
--- a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ The ``login_required`` decorator
 
         from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
 
-        url(r'^accounts/login/$', auth_views.LoginView.as_view()),
+        path('accounts/login/', auth_views.LoginView.as_view()),
 
     The :setting:`settings.LOGIN_URL <LOGIN_URL>` also accepts view function
     names and :ref:`named URL patterns <naming-url-patterns>`. This allows you
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ easiest way is to include the provided URLconf in ``django.contrib.auth.urls``
 in your own URLconf, for example::
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url('^', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),
+        path('', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),
     ]
 
 This will include the following URL patterns::
@@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ your URLconf::
     from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url('^change-password/$', auth_views.PasswordChangeView.as_view()),
+        path('change-password/', auth_views.PasswordChangeView.as_view()),
     ]
 
 The views have optional arguments you can use to alter the behavior of the
@@ -928,8 +928,8 @@ provide the ``template_name`` argument. A way to do this is to provide keyword
 arguments in the URLconf, these will be passed on to the view. For example::
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(
-            '^change-password/$',
+        path(
+            'change-password/',
             auth_views.PasswordChangeView.as_view(template_name='change-password.html'),
         ),
     ]
@@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ implementation details see :ref:`using-the-views`.
     the ``as_view`` method in your URLconf. For example, this URLconf line would
     use :file:`myapp/login.html` instead::
 
-        url(r'^accounts/login/$', auth_views.LoginView.as_view(template_name='myapp/login.html')),
+        path('accounts/login/', auth_views.LoginView.as_view(template_name='myapp/login.html')),
 
     You can also specify the name of the ``GET`` field which contains the URL
     to redirect to after login using ``redirect_field_name``. By default, the
diff --git a/docs/topics/cache.txt b/docs/topics/cache.txt
index d2aa8f98ec..6e6564d3e2 100644
--- a/docs/topics/cache.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/cache.txt
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ multiple URLs point at the same view, each URL will be cached separately.
 Continuing the ``my_view`` example, if your URLconf looks like this::
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^foo/([0-9]{1,2})/$', my_view),
+        path('foo/<int:code>/', my_view),
     ]
 
 then requests to ``/foo/1/`` and ``/foo/23/`` will be cached separately, as
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ Doing so is easy: simply wrap the view function with ``cache_page`` when you
 refer to it in the URLconf. Here's the old URLconf from earlier::
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^foo/([0-9]{1,2})/$', my_view),
+        path('foo/<int:code>/', my_view),
     ]
 
 Here's the same thing, with ``my_view`` wrapped in ``cache_page``::
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ Here's the same thing, with ``my_view`` wrapped in ``cache_page``::
     from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^foo/([0-9]{1,2})/$', cache_page(60 * 15)(my_view)),
+        path('foo/<int:code>/', cache_page(60 * 15)(my_view)),
     ]
 
 .. templatetag:: cache
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-display.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-display.txt
index 456c953cb1..2f41b0b500 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-display.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-display.txt
@@ -117,11 +117,11 @@ Now we need to define a view::
 Finally hook that view into your urls::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from books.views import PublisherList
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^publishers/$', PublisherList.as_view()),
+        path('publishers/', PublisherList.as_view()),
     ]
 
 That's all the Python code we need to write. We still need to write a template,
@@ -332,11 +332,11 @@ various useful things are stored on ``self``; as well as the request
 Here, we have a URLconf with a single captured group::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from books.views import PublisherBookList
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^books/([\w-]+)/$', PublisherBookList.as_view()),
+        path('books/<publisher>/', PublisherBookList.as_view()),
     ]
 
 Next, we'll write the ``PublisherBookList`` view itself::
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ Next, we'll write the ``PublisherBookList`` view itself::
         template_name = 'books/books_by_publisher.html'
 
         def get_queryset(self):
-            self.publisher = get_object_or_404(Publisher, name=self.args[0])
+            self.publisher = get_object_or_404(Publisher, name=self.kwargs['publisher'])
             return Book.objects.filter(publisher=self.publisher)
 
 As you can see, it's quite easy to add more logic to the queryset selection;
@@ -398,12 +398,12 @@ updated.
 First, we'd need to add an author detail bit in the URLconf to point to a
 custom view::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from books.views import AuthorDetailView
 
     urlpatterns = [
         #...
-        url(r'^authors/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', AuthorDetailView.as_view(), name='author-detail'),
+        path('authors/<int:pk>/', AuthorDetailView.as_view(), name='author-detail'),
     ]
 
 Then we'd write our new view -- ``get_object`` is the method that retrieves the
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt
index 3fde51253a..69f2158021 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt
@@ -149,14 +149,14 @@ Finally, we hook these new views into the URLconf:
 .. snippet::
     :filename: urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from myapp.views import AuthorCreate, AuthorUpdate, AuthorDelete
 
     urlpatterns = [
         # ...
-        url(r'author/add/$', AuthorCreate.as_view(), name='author-add'),
-        url(r'author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', AuthorUpdate.as_view(), name='author-update'),
-        url(r'author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/delete/$', AuthorDelete.as_view(), name='author-delete'),
+        path('author/add/', AuthorCreate.as_view(), name='author-add'),
+        path('author/<int:pk>/', AuthorUpdate.as_view(), name='author-update'),
+        path('author/<int:pk>/delete/', AuthorDelete.as_view(), name='author-delete'),
     ]
 
 .. note::
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/index.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/index.txt
index 91dd6ff944..6a629cb887 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/index.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/index.txt
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ URLconf. If you're only changing a few simple attributes on a class-based view,
 you can simply pass them into the
 :meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` method call itself::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^about/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="about.html")),
+        path('about/', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="about.html")),
     ]
 
 Any arguments passed to :meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` will
@@ -75,11 +75,11 @@ class method instead, which provides a function-like entry to class-based
 views::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from some_app.views import AboutView
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^about/$', AboutView.as_view()),
+        path('about/', AboutView.as_view()),
     ]
 
 
@@ -100,11 +100,11 @@ preferable to ask the API when the most recent book was published.
 
 We map the URL to book list view in the URLconf::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from books.views import BookListView
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^books/$', BookListView.as_view()),
+        path('books/', BookListView.as_view()),
     ]
 
 And the view::
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt
index 32562a8744..f4a5f5ac24 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt
@@ -89,11 +89,11 @@ request to a matching method if one is defined, or raises
 :class:`~django.http.HttpResponseNotAllowed` if not::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from myapp.views import MyView
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^about/$', MyView.as_view()),
+        path('about/', MyView.as_view()),
     ]
 
 
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ Another option is to configure class attributes as keyword arguments to the
 :meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` call in the URLconf::
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^about/$', GreetingView.as_view(greeting="G'day")),
+        path('about/', GreetingView.as_view(greeting="G'day")),
     ]
 
 .. note::
@@ -245,8 +245,8 @@ The easiest place to do this is in the URLconf where you deploy your view::
     from .views import VoteView
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^about/$', login_required(TemplateView.as_view(template_name="secret.html"))),
-        url(r'^vote/$', permission_required('polls.can_vote')(VoteView.as_view())),
+        path('about/', login_required(TemplateView.as_view(template_name="secret.html"))),
+        path('vote/', permission_required('polls.can_vote')(VoteView.as_view())),
     ]
 
 This approach applies the decorator on a per-instance basis. If you
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/mixins.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/mixins.txt
index 8da0834866..4a47af6f11 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/mixins.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/mixins.txt
@@ -258,12 +258,12 @@ We can hook this into our URLs easily enough:
 .. snippet::
     :filename: urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from books.views import RecordInterest
 
     urlpatterns = [
         #...
-        url(r'^author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/interest/$', RecordInterest.as_view(), name='author-interest'),
+        path('author/<int:pk>/interest/', RecordInterest.as_view(), name='author-interest'),
     ]
 
 Note the ``pk`` named group, which
diff --git a/docs/topics/http/urls.txt b/docs/topics/http/urls.txt
index d5bae7f072..449f421775 100644
--- a/docs/topics/http/urls.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/http/urls.txt
@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ Overview
 
 To design URLs for an app, you create a Python module informally called a
 **URLconf** (URL configuration). This module is pure Python code and is a
-simple mapping between URL patterns (simple regular expressions) to Python
-functions (your views).
+mapping between URL path expressions to Python functions (your views).
 
 This mapping can be as short or as long as needed. It can reference other
 mappings. And, because it's pure Python code, it can be constructed
@@ -45,25 +44,26 @@ algorithm the system follows to determine which Python code to execute:
    :setting:`ROOT_URLCONF` setting.
 
 2. Django loads that Python module and looks for the variable
-   ``urlpatterns``. This should be a Python list of :func:`django.conf.urls.url`
-   instances.
+   ``urlpatterns``. This should be a Python list of :func:`django.urls.path`
+   and/or :func:`django.urls.re_path` instances.
 
 3. Django runs through each URL pattern, in order, and stops at the first
    one that matches the requested URL.
 
-4. Once one of the regexes matches, Django imports and calls the given view,
-   which is a simple Python function (or a :doc:`class-based view
+4. Once one of the URL patterns matches, Django imports and calls the given
+   view, which is a simple Python function (or a :doc:`class-based view
    </topics/class-based-views/index>`). The view gets passed the following
    arguments:
 
    * An instance of :class:`~django.http.HttpRequest`.
-   * If the matched regular expression returned no named groups, then the
+   * If the matched URL pattern returned no named groups, then the
      matches from the regular expression are provided as positional arguments.
-   * The keyword arguments are made up of any named groups matched by the
-     regular expression, overridden by any arguments specified in the optional
-     ``kwargs`` argument to :func:`django.conf.urls.url`.
+   * The keyword arguments are made up of any named parts matched by the
+     path expression, overridden by any arguments specified in the optional
+     ``kwargs`` argument to :func:`django.urls.path` or
+     :func:`django.urls.re_path`.
 
-5. If no regex matches, or if an exception is raised during any
+5. If no URL pattern matches, or if an exception is raised during any
    point in this process, Django invokes an appropriate
    error-handling view. See `Error handling`_ below.
 
@@ -72,36 +72,33 @@ Example
 
 Here's a sample URLconf::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
 
     from . import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^articles/2003/$', views.special_case_2003),
-        url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/$', views.year_archive),
-        url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/$', views.month_archive),
-        url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]+)/$', views.article_detail),
+        path('articles/2003/', views.special_case_2003),
+        path('articles/<int:year>/', views.year_archive),
+        path('articles/<int:year>/<int:month>/', views.month_archive),
+        path('articles/<int:year>/<int:month>/<slug>/', views.article_detail),
     ]
 
 Notes:
 
-* To capture a value from the URL, just put parenthesis around it.
+* To capture a value from the URL, use angle brackets.
+
+* Captured values can optionally include a converter type. For example, use
+  ``<int:name>`` to capture an integer parameter. If a converter isn't included,
+  any string, excluding a ``/`` character, is matched.
 
 * There's no need to add a leading slash, because every URL has that. For
-  example, it's ``^articles``, not ``^/articles``.
-
-* The ``'r'`` in front of each regular expression string is optional but
-  recommended. It tells Python that a string is "raw" -- that nothing in
-  the string should be escaped. See `Dive Into Python's explanation`_.
+  example, it's ``articles``, not ``/articles``.
 
 Example requests:
 
 * A request to ``/articles/2005/03/`` would match the third entry in the
   list. Django would call the function
-  ``views.month_archive(request, '2005', '03')``.
-
-* ``/articles/2005/3/`` would not match any URL patterns, because the
-  third entry in the list requires two digits for the month.
+  ``views.month_archive(request, year=2005, month=3)``.
 
 * ``/articles/2003/`` would match the first pattern in the list, not the
   second one, because the patterns are tested in order, and the first one
@@ -112,66 +109,163 @@ Example requests:
 * ``/articles/2003`` would not match any of these patterns, because each
   pattern requires that the URL end with a slash.
 
-* ``/articles/2003/03/03/`` would match the final pattern. Django would call
-  the function ``views.article_detail(request, '2003', '03', '03')``.
+* ``/articles/2003/03/building-a-django-site/`` would match the final
+  pattern. Django would call the function
+  ``views.article_detail(request, year=2003, month=3, slug="building-a-django-site")``.
 
-.. _Dive Into Python's explanation: http://www.diveintopython3.net/regular-expressions.html#streetaddresses
+Path converters
+===============
 
-Named groups
-============
+The following path converters are available by default:
 
-The above example used simple, *non-named* regular-expression groups (via
-parenthesis) to capture bits of the URL and pass them as *positional* arguments
-to a view. In more advanced usage, it's possible to use *named*
-regular-expression groups to capture URL bits and pass them as *keyword*
-arguments to a view.
+* ``str`` - Matches any non-empty string, excluding the path separator, ``'/'``.
+  This is the default if a converter isn't included in the expression.
 
-In Python regular expressions, the syntax for named regular-expression groups
+* ``int`` - Matches zero or any positive integer. Returns an `int`.
+
+* ``slug`` - Matches any slug string consisting of ASCII letters or numbers,
+  plus the hyphen and underscore characters. For example,
+  ``building-your-1st-django-site``.
+
+* ``uuid`` - Matches a formatted UUID. For example,
+  ``075194d3-6885-417e-a8a8-6c931e272f00``. Returns a :class:`~uuid.UUID`
+  instance.
+
+* ``path`` - Matches any non-empty string, including the path separator,
+  ``'/'``. This allows you to match against a complete URL path rather than
+  just a segment of a URL path as with ``str``.
+
+.. _registering-custom-path-converters:
+
+Registering custom path converters
+==================================
+
+For more complex matching requirements, you can define your own path converters.
+
+A converter is a class that includes the following:
+
+* A ``regex`` class attribute, as a string.
+
+* A ``to_python(self, value)`` method, which handles converting the matched
+  string into the type that should be passed to the view function. It should
+  raise ``ValueError`` if it can't convert the given value.
+
+* A ``to_url(self, value)`` method, which handles converting the Python type
+  into a string to be used in the URL.
+
+For example::
+
+    class FourDigitYearConverter:
+        regex = '[0-9]{4}'
+
+        def to_python(self, value):
+            return int(value)
+
+        def to_url(self, value):
+            return '%04d' % value
+
+Register custom converter classes in your URLconf using
+:func:`~django.urls.register_converter`::
+
+    from django.urls import register_converter, path
+
+    from . import converters, views
+
+    register_converter(converters.FourDigitYearConverter, 'yyyy')
+
+    urlpatterns = [
+        path('articles/2003/', views.special_case_2003),
+        path('articles/<yyyy:year>/', views.year_archive),
+        ...
+    ]
+
+Using regular expressions
+=========================
+
+If the paths and converters syntax isn't sufficient for defining your URL
+patterns, you can also use regular expressions. To do so, use
+:func:`~django.urls.re_path` instead of :func:`~django.urls.path`.
+
+In Python regular expressions, the syntax for named regular expression groups
 is ``(?P<name>pattern)``, where ``name`` is the name of the group and
 ``pattern`` is some pattern to match.
 
-Here's the above example URLconf, rewritten to use named groups::
+Here's the example URLconf from earlier, rewritten using regular expressions::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path, re_path
 
     from . import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^articles/2003/$', views.special_case_2003),
-        url(r'^articles/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/$', views.year_archive),
-        url(r'^articles/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[0-9]{2})/$', views.month_archive),
-        url(r'^articles/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[0-9]{2})/(?P<day>[0-9]{2})/$', views.article_detail),
+        path('articles/2003/', views.special_case_2003),
+        re_path('articles/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/', views.year_archive),
+        re_path('articles/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[0-9]{2})/', views.month_archive),
+        re_path('articles/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[0-9]{2})/(?P<slug>[^/]+)/', views.article_detail),
     ]
 
-This accomplishes exactly the same thing as the previous example, with one
-subtle difference: The captured values are passed to view functions as keyword
-arguments rather than positional arguments. For example:
+This accomplishes roughly the same thing as the previous example, except:
 
-* A request to ``/articles/2005/03/`` would call the function
-  ``views.month_archive(request, year='2005', month='03')``, instead
-  of ``views.month_archive(request, '2005', '03')``.
+* The exact URLs that will match are slightly more constrained. For example,
+  the year 10000 will no longer match since the year integers are constrained
+  to be exactly four digits long.
 
-* A request to ``/articles/2003/03/03/`` would call the function
-  ``views.article_detail(request, year='2003', month='03', day='03')``.
+* Each captured argument is sent to the view as a string, regardless of what
+  sort of match the regular expression makes.
 
-In practice, this means your URLconfs are slightly more explicit and less prone
-to argument-order bugs -- and you can reorder the arguments in your views'
-function definitions. Of course, these benefits come at the cost of brevity;
-some developers find the named-group syntax ugly and too verbose.
+When switching from using :func:`~django.urls.path` to
+:func:`~django.urls.re_path` or vice versa, it's particularly important to be
+aware that the type of the view arguments may change, and so you may need to
+adapt your views.
 
-The matching/grouping algorithm
--------------------------------
+Using unnamed regular expression groups
+---------------------------------------
 
-Here's the algorithm the URLconf parser follows, with respect to named groups
-vs. non-named groups in a regular expression:
+As well as the named group syntax, e.g. ``(?P<year>[0-9]{4})``, you can
+also use the shorter unnamed group, e.g. ``([0-9]{4})``.
 
-1. If there are any named arguments, it will use those, ignoring non-named
-   arguments.
+This usage isn't particularly recommended as it makes it easier to accidentally
+introduce errors between the intended meaning of a match and the arguments
+of the view.
 
-2. Otherwise, it will pass all non-named arguments as positional arguments.
+In either case, using only one style within an given regex is recommended. When
+both styles are mixed, any unnamed groups are ignored and only named groups are
+passed to the view function.
 
-In both cases, any extra keyword arguments that have been given as per `Passing
-extra options to view functions`_ (below) will also be passed to the view.
+Nested arguments
+----------------
+
+Regular expressions allow nested arguments, and Django will resolve them and
+pass them to the view. When reversing, Django will try to fill in all outer
+captured arguments, ignoring any nested captured arguments. Consider the
+following URL patterns which optionally take a page argument::
+
+    from django.urls import re_path
+
+    urlpatterns = [
+        re_path(r'blog/(page-(\d+)/)?$', blog_articles),                  # bad
+        re_path(r'comments/(?:page-(?P<page_number>\d+)/)?$', comments),  # good
+    ]
+
+Both patterns use nested arguments and will resolve: for example,
+``blog/page-2/`` will result in a match to ``blog_articles`` with two
+positional arguments: ``page-2/`` and ``2``. The second pattern for
+``comments`` will match ``comments/page-2/`` with keyword argument
+``page_number`` set to 2. The outer argument in this case is a non-capturing
+argument ``(?:...)``.
+
+The ``blog_articles`` view needs the outermost captured argument to be reversed,
+``page-2/`` or no arguments in this case, while ``comments`` can be reversed
+with either no arguments or a value for ``page_number``.
+
+Nested captured arguments create a strong coupling between the view arguments
+and the URL as illustrated by ``blog_articles``: the view receives part of the
+URL (``page-2/``) instead of only the value the view is interested in. This
+coupling is even more pronounced when reversing, since to reverse the view we
+need to pass the piece of URL instead of the page number.
+
+As a rule of thumb, only capture the values the view needs to work with and
+use non-capturing arguments when the regular expression needs an argument but
+the view ignores it.
 
 What the URLconf searches against
 =================================
@@ -189,18 +283,6 @@ The URLconf doesn't look at the request method. In other words, all request
 methods -- ``POST``, ``GET``, ``HEAD``, etc. -- will be routed to the same
 function for the same URL.
 
-Captured arguments are always strings
-=====================================
-
-Each captured argument is sent to the view as a plain Python string, regardless
-of what sort of match the regular expression makes. For example, in this
-URLconf line::
-
-    url(r'^articles/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/$', views.year_archive),
-
-...the ``year`` argument passed to ``views.year_archive()`` will be a string,
- not an integer, even though the ``[0-9]{4}`` will only match integer strings.
-
 Specifying defaults for view arguments
 ======================================
 
@@ -208,25 +290,25 @@ A convenient trick is to specify default parameters for your views' arguments.
 Here's an example URLconf and view::
 
     # URLconf
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
 
     from . import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^blog/$', views.page),
-        url(r'^blog/page(?P<num>[0-9]+)/$', views.page),
+        path('blog/', views.page),
+        path('blog/page<int:num>/', views.page),
     ]
 
     # View (in blog/views.py)
-    def page(request, num="1"):
+    def page(request, num=1):
         # Output the appropriate page of blog entries, according to num.
         ...
 
 In the above example, both URL patterns point to the same view --
 ``views.page`` -- but the first pattern doesn't capture anything from the
 URL. If the first pattern matches, the ``page()`` function will use its
-default argument for ``num``, ``"1"``. If the second pattern matches,
-``page()`` will use whatever ``num`` value was captured by the regex.
+default argument for ``num``, ``1``. If the second pattern matches,
+``page()`` will use whatever ``num`` value was captured.
 
 Performance
 ===========
@@ -237,14 +319,14 @@ accessed. This makes the system blazingly fast.
 Syntax of the ``urlpatterns`` variable
 ======================================
 
-``urlpatterns`` should be a Python list of :func:`~django.conf.urls.url`
-instances.
+``urlpatterns`` should be a Python list of :func:`~django.urls.path` and/or
+:func:`~django.urls.re_path` instances.
 
 Error handling
 ==============
 
-When Django can't find a regex matching the requested URL, or when an
-exception is raised, Django will invoke an error-handling view.
+When Django can't find a match for the requested URL, or when an exception is
+raised, Django invokes an error-handling view.
 
 The views to use for these cases are specified by four variables. Their
 default values should suffice for most projects, but further customization is
@@ -277,39 +359,37 @@ essentially "roots" a set of URLs below other ones.
 For example, here's an excerpt of the URLconf for the `Django website`_
 itself. It includes a number of other URLconfs::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import include, url
+    from django.urls import include, path
 
     urlpatterns = [
         # ... snip ...
-        url(r'^community/', include('django_website.aggregator.urls')),
-        url(r'^contact/', include('django_website.contact.urls')),
+        path('community/', include('aggregator.urls')),
+        path('contact/', include('contact.urls')),
         # ... snip ...
     ]
 
-Note that the regular expressions in this example don't have a ``$``
-(end-of-string match character) but do include a trailing slash. Whenever
-Django encounters ``include()`` (:func:`django.conf.urls.include()`), it chops
-off whatever part of the URL matched up to that point and sends the remaining
+Whenever Django encounters :func:`~django.urls.include()`, it chops off
+whatever part of the URL matched up to that point and sends the remaining
 string to the included URLconf for further processing.
 
 Another possibility is to include additional URL patterns by using a list of
-:func:`~django.conf.urls.url` instances. For example, consider this URLconf::
+:func:`~django.urls.path` instances. For example, consider this URLconf::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import include, url
+    from django.urls import include, path
 
     from apps.main import views as main_views
     from credit import views as credit_views
 
     extra_patterns = [
-        url(r'^reports/$', credit_views.report),
-        url(r'^reports/(?P<id>[0-9]+)/$', credit_views.report),
-        url(r'^charge/$', credit_views.charge),
+        path('reports/', credit_views.report),
+        path('reports/<int:id>/', credit_views.report),
+        path('charge/', credit_views.charge),
     ]
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^$', main_views.homepage),
-        url(r'^help/', include('apps.help.urls')),
-        url(r'^credit/', include(extra_patterns)),
+        path('', main_views.homepage),
+        path('help/', include('apps.help.urls')),
+        path('credit/', include(extra_patterns)),
     ]
 
 In this example, the ``/credit/reports/`` URL will be handled by the
@@ -318,28 +398,28 @@ In this example, the ``/credit/reports/`` URL will be handled by the
 This can be used to remove redundancy from URLconfs where a single pattern
 prefix is used repeatedly. For example, consider this URLconf::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from . import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>[\w-]+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/history/$', views.history),
-        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>[\w-]+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/edit/$', views.edit),
-        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>[\w-]+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/discuss/$', views.discuss),
-        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>[\w-]+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/permissions/$', views.permissions),
+        path('<page_slug>-<page_id>/history/', views.history),
+        path('<page_slug>-<page_id>/edit/', views.edit),
+        path('<page_slug>-<page_id>/discuss/', views.discuss),
+        path('<page_slug>-<page_id>/permissions/', views.permissions),
     ]
 
 We can improve this by stating the common path prefix only once and grouping
 the suffixes that differ::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import include, url
+    from django.urls import include, path
     from . import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>[\w-]+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/', include([
-            url(r'^history/$', views.history),
-            url(r'^edit/$', views.edit),
-            url(r'^discuss/$', views.discuss),
-            url(r'^permissions/$', views.permissions),
+        path('<page_slug>-<page_id>/', include([
+            path('history/', views.history),
+            path('edit/', views.edit),
+            path('discuss/', views.discuss),
+            path('permissions/', views.permissions),
         ])),
     ]
 
@@ -352,60 +432,24 @@ An included URLconf receives any captured parameters from parent URLconfs, so
 the following example is valid::
 
     # In settings/urls/main.py
-    from django.conf.urls import include, url
+    from django.urls import include, path
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^(?P<username>\w+)/blog/', include('foo.urls.blog')),
+        path('<username>/blog/', include('foo.urls.blog')),
     ]
 
     # In foo/urls/blog.py
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from . import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^$', views.blog.index),
-        url(r'^archive/$', views.blog.archive),
+        path('', views.blog.index),
+        path('archive/', views.blog.archive),
     ]
 
 In the above example, the captured ``"username"`` variable is passed to the
 included URLconf, as expected.
 
-Nested arguments
-================
-
-Regular expressions allow nested arguments, and Django will resolve them and
-pass them to the view. When reversing, Django will try to fill in all outer
-captured arguments, ignoring any nested captured arguments. Consider the
-following URL patterns which optionally take a page argument::
-
-    from django.conf.urls import url
-
-    urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'blog/(page-(\d+)/)?$', blog_articles),                  # bad
-        url(r'comments/(?:page-(?P<page_number>\d+)/)?$', comments),  # good
-    ]
-
-Both patterns use nested arguments and will resolve: for example,
-``blog/page-2/`` will result in a match to ``blog_articles`` with two
-positional arguments: ``page-2/`` and ``2``. The second pattern for
-``comments`` will match ``comments/page-2/`` with keyword argument
-``page_number`` set to 2. The outer argument in this case is a non-capturing
-argument ``(?:...)``.
-
-The ``blog_articles`` view needs the outermost captured argument to be reversed,
-``page-2/`` or no arguments in this case, while ``comments`` can be reversed
-with either no arguments or a value for ``page_number``.
-
-Nested captured arguments create a strong coupling between the view arguments
-and the URL as illustrated by ``blog_articles``: the view receives part of the
-URL (``page-2/``) instead of only the value the view is interested in. This
-coupling is even more pronounced when reversing, since to reverse the view we
-need to pass the piece of URL instead of the page number.
-
-As a rule of thumb, only capture the values the view needs to work with and
-use non-capturing arguments when the regular expression needs an argument but
-the view ignores it.
-
 .. _views-extra-options:
 
 Passing extra options to view functions
@@ -414,21 +458,21 @@ Passing extra options to view functions
 URLconfs have a hook that lets you pass extra arguments to your view functions,
 as a Python dictionary.
 
-The :func:`django.conf.urls.url` function can take an optional third argument
+The :func:`~django.urls.path` function can take an optional third argument
 which should be a dictionary of extra keyword arguments to pass to the view
 function.
 
 For example::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from . import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^blog/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/$', views.year_archive, {'foo': 'bar'}),
+        path('blog/<int:year>/', views.year_archive, {'foo': 'bar'}),
     ]
 
 In this example, for a request to ``/blog/2005/``, Django will call
-``views.year_archive(request, year='2005', foo='bar')``.
+``views.year_archive(request, year=2005, foo='bar')``.
 
 This technique is used in the
 :doc:`syndication framework </ref/contrib/syndication>` to pass metadata and
@@ -444,46 +488,45 @@ options to views.
 Passing extra options to ``include()``
 --------------------------------------
 
-Similarly, you can pass extra options to :func:`~django.conf.urls.include`.
-When you pass extra options to ``include()``, *each* line in the included
-URLconf will be passed the extra options.
+Similarly, you can pass extra options to :func:`~django.urls.include` and
+each line in the included URLconf will be passed the extra options.
 
 For example, these two URLconf sets are functionally identical:
 
 Set one::
 
     # main.py
-    from django.conf.urls import include, url
+    from django.urls import include, path
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^blog/', include('inner'), {'blogid': 3}),
+        path('blog/', include('inner'), {'blog_id': 3}),
     ]
 
     # inner.py
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
     from mysite import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^archive/$', views.archive),
-        url(r'^about/$', views.about),
+        path('archive/', views.archive),
+        path('about/', views.about),
     ]
 
 Set two::
 
     # main.py
-    from django.conf.urls import include, url
+    from django.urls import include, path
     from mysite import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^blog/', include('inner')),
+        path('blog/', include('inner')),
     ]
 
     # inner.py
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^archive/$', views.archive, {'blogid': 3}),
-        url(r'^about/$', views.about, {'blogid': 3}),
+        path('archive/', views.archive, {'blog_id': 3}),
+        path('about/', views.about, {'blog_id': 3}),
     ]
 
 Note that extra options will *always* be passed to *every* line in the included
@@ -543,18 +586,18 @@ Examples
 
 Consider again this URLconf entry::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
 
     from . import views
 
     urlpatterns = [
         #...
-        url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/$', views.year_archive, name='news-year-archive'),
+        path('articles/<int:year>/', views.year_archive, name='news-year-archive'),
         #...
     ]
 
 According to this design, the URL for the archive corresponding to year *nnnn*
-is ``/articles/nnnn/``.
+is ``/articles/<nnnn>/``.
 
 You can obtain these in template code by using:
 
@@ -720,24 +763,24 @@ displaying polls.
 .. snippet::
     :filename: urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import include, url
+    from django.urls import include, path
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^author-polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace='author-polls')),
-        url(r'^publisher-polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace='publisher-polls')),
+        path('author-polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace='author-polls')),
+        path('publisher-polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace='publisher-polls')),
     ]
 
 .. snippet::
     :filename: polls/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
 
     from . import views
 
     app_name = 'polls'
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^$', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
-        url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)/$', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
+        path('', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
+        path('<int:pk>/', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
         ...
     ]
 
@@ -783,60 +826,61 @@ Application namespaces of included URLconfs can be specified in two ways.
 
 Firstly, you can set an ``app_name`` attribute in the included URLconf module,
 at the same level as the ``urlpatterns`` attribute. You have to pass the actual
-module, or a string reference to the module, to
-:func:`~django.conf.urls.include`, not the list of ``urlpatterns`` itself.
+module, or a string reference to the module, to :func:`~django.urls.include`,
+not the list of ``urlpatterns`` itself.
 
 .. snippet::
     :filename: polls/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from django.urls import path
 
     from . import views
 
     app_name = 'polls'
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^$', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
-        url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)/$', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
+        path('', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
+        path('<int:pk>/', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
         ...
     ]
 
 .. snippet::
     :filename: urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import include, url
+    from django.urls import include, path
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),
+        path('polls/', include('polls.urls')),
     ]
 
 The URLs defined in ``polls.urls`` will have an application namespace ``polls``.
 
 Secondly, you can include an object that contains embedded namespace data. If
-you ``include()`` a list of :func:`~django.conf.urls.url` instances,
-the URLs contained in that object will be added to the global namespace.
-However, you can also ``include()`` a 2-tuple containing::
+you ``include()`` a list of :func:`~django.urls.path` or
+:func:`~django.urls.re_path` instances, the URLs contained in that object
+will be added to the global namespace. However, you can also ``include()`` a
+2-tuple containing::
 
-    (<list of url() instances>, <application namespace>)
+    (<list of path()/re_path() instances>, <application namespace>)
 
 For example::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import include, url
+    from django.urls import include, path
 
     from . import views
 
     polls_patterns = ([
-        url(r'^$', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
-        url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)/$', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
+        path('', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
+        path('<int:pk>/', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
     ], 'polls')
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^polls/', include(polls_patterns)),
+        path('polls/', include(polls_patterns)),
     ]
 
 This will include the nominated URL patterns into the given application
 namespace.
 
 The instance namespace can be specified using the ``namespace`` argument to
-:func:`~django.conf.urls.include`. If the instance namespace is not specified,
+:func:`~django.urls.include`. If the instance namespace is not specified,
 it will default to the included URLconf's application namespace. This means
 it will also be the default instance for that namespace.
diff --git a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
index 148028c717..dcecbf61a5 100644
--- a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
@@ -992,15 +992,15 @@ The ``JavaScriptCatalog`` view
         from django.views.i18n import JavaScriptCatalog
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(r'^jsi18n/$', JavaScriptCatalog.as_view(), name='javascript-catalog'),
+            path('jsi18n/', JavaScriptCatalog.as_view(), name='javascript-catalog'),
         ]
 
     **Example with custom packages**::
 
         urlpatterns = [
-            url(r'^jsi18n/myapp/$',
-                JavaScriptCatalog.as_view(packages=['your.app.label']),
-                name='javascript-catalog'),
+            path('jsi18n/myapp/',
+                 JavaScriptCatalog.as_view(packages=['your.app.label']),
+                 name='javascript-catalog'),
         ]
 
     If your root URLconf uses :func:`~django.conf.urls.i18n.i18n_patterns`,
@@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ The ``JavaScriptCatalog`` view
         from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
 
         urlpatterns = i18n_patterns(
-            url(r'^jsi18n/$', JavaScriptCatalog.as_view(), name='javascript-catalog'),
+            path('jsi18n/', JavaScriptCatalog.as_view(), name='javascript-catalog'),
         )
 
 The precedence of translations is such that the packages appearing later in the
@@ -1235,9 +1235,9 @@ URL::
 
     # The value returned by get_version() must change when translations change.
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^jsi18n/$',
-            cache_page(86400, key_prefix='js18n-%s' % get_version())(JavaScriptCatalog.as_view()),
-            name='javascript-catalog'),
+        path('jsi18n/',
+             cache_page(86400, key_prefix='js18n-%s' % get_version())(JavaScriptCatalog.as_view()),
+             name='javascript-catalog'),
     ]
 
 Client-side caching will save bandwidth and make your site load faster. If
@@ -1253,9 +1253,9 @@ whenever you restart your application server::
     last_modified_date = timezone.now()
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^jsi18n/$',
-            last_modified(lambda req, **kw: last_modified_date)(JavaScriptCatalog.as_view()),
-            name='javascript-catalog'),
+        path('jsi18n/',
+             last_modified(lambda req, **kw: last_modified_date)(JavaScriptCatalog.as_view()),
+             name='javascript-catalog'),
     ]
 
 You can even pre-generate the JavaScript catalog as part of your deployment
@@ -1302,26 +1302,26 @@ translations to existing site so that the current URLs won't change.
 
 Example URL patterns::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import include, url
     from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
+    from django.urls import include, url
 
     from about import views as about_views
     from news import views as news_views
     from sitemap.views import sitemap
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', sitemap, name='sitemap-xml'),
+        path('sitemap.xml', sitemap, name='sitemap-xml'),
     ]
 
     news_patterns = ([
-        url(r'^$', news_views.index, name='index'),
-        url(r'^category/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$', news_views.category, name='category'),
-        url(r'^(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$', news_views.details, name='detail'),
+        path('', news_views.index, name='index'),
+        path('category/<slug>/', news_views.category, name='category'),
+        path('<slug>/', news_views.details, name='detail'),
     ], 'news')
 
     urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
-        url(r'^about/$', about_views.main, name='about'),
-        url(r'^news/', include(news_patterns, namespace='news')),
+        path('about/', about_views.main, name='about'),
+        path('news/', include(news_patterns, namespace='news')),
     )
 
 After defining these URL patterns, Django will automatically add the
@@ -1371,8 +1371,8 @@ Translating URL patterns
 URL patterns can also be marked translatable using the
 :func:`~django.utils.translation.gettext_lazy` function. Example::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import include, url
     from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
+    from django.urls import include, path
     from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
 
     from about import views as about_views
@@ -1380,18 +1380,18 @@ URL patterns can also be marked translatable using the
     from sitemaps.views import sitemap
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', sitemap, name='sitemap-xml'),
+        path('sitemap.xml', sitemap, name='sitemap-xml'),
     ]
 
     news_patterns = ([
-        url(r'^$', news_views.index, name='index'),
-        url(_(r'^category/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$'), news_views.category, name='category'),
-        url(r'^(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$', news_views.details, name='detail'),
+        path('', news_views.index, name='index'),
+        path(_('category/<slug>/'), news_views.category, name='category'),
+        path('<slug>/', news_views.details, name='detail'),
     ], 'news')
 
     urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
-        url(_(r'^about/$'), about_views.main, name='about'),
-        url(_(r'^news/'), include(news_patterns, namespace='news')),
+        path(_('about/'), about_views.main, name='about'),
+        path(_('news/'), include(news_patterns, namespace='news')),
     )
 
 After you've created the translations, the :func:`~django.urls.reverse`
@@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@ back to the previous page.
 
 Activate this view by adding the following line to your URLconf::
 
-    url(r'^i18n/', include('django.conf.urls.i18n')),
+    path('i18n/', include('django.conf.urls.i18n')),
 
 (Note that this example makes the view available at ``/i18n/setlang/``.)
 
diff --git a/tests/check_framework/test_urls.py b/tests/check_framework/test_urls.py
index 07acab599b..5a0d811433 100644
--- a/tests/check_framework/test_urls.py
+++ b/tests/check_framework/test_urls.py
@@ -32,8 +32,11 @@ class CheckUrlConfigTests(SimpleTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(len(result), 1)
         warning = result[0]
         self.assertEqual(warning.id, 'urls.W001')
-        expected_msg = "Your URL pattern '^include-with-dollar$' uses include with a regex ending with a '$'."
-        self.assertIn(expected_msg, warning.msg)
+        self.assertEqual(warning.msg, (
+            "Your URL pattern '^include-with-dollar$' uses include with a "
+            "route ending with a '$'. Remove the dollar from the route to "
+            "avoid problems including URLs."
+        ))
 
     @override_settings(ROOT_URLCONF='check_framework.urls.contains_tuple')
     def test_contains_tuple_not_url_instance(self):
@@ -42,23 +45,33 @@ class CheckUrlConfigTests(SimpleTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(warning.id, 'urls.E004')
         self.assertRegex(warning.msg, (
             r"^Your URL pattern \('\^tuple/\$', <function <lambda> at 0x(\w+)>\) is "
-            r"invalid. Ensure that urlpatterns is a list of url\(\) instances.$"
+            r"invalid. Ensure that urlpatterns is a list of path\(\) and/or re_path\(\) "
+            r"instances\.$"
+        ))
+
+    @override_settings(ROOT_URLCONF='check_framework.urls.include_contains_tuple')
+    def test_contains_included_tuple(self):
+        result = check_url_config(None)
+        warning = result[0]
+        self.assertEqual(warning.id, 'urls.E004')
+        self.assertRegex(warning.msg, (
+            r"^Your URL pattern \('\^tuple/\$', <function <lambda> at 0x(\w+)>\) is "
+            r"invalid. Ensure that urlpatterns is a list of path\(\) and/or re_path\(\) "
+            r"instances\.$"
         ))
 
     @override_settings(ROOT_URLCONF='check_framework.urls.beginning_with_slash')
     def test_beginning_with_slash(self):
-        result = check_url_config(None)
-        self.assertEqual(len(result), 1)
-        warning = result[0]
-        self.assertEqual(warning.id, 'urls.W002')
-        expected_msg = (
-            "Your URL pattern '/starting-with-slash/$' has a regex beginning "
-            "with a '/'. Remove this slash as it is unnecessary. If this "
-            "pattern is targeted in an include(), ensure the include() pattern "
-            "has a trailing '/'."
+        msg = (
+            "Your URL pattern '%s' has a route beginning with a '/'. Remove "
+            "this slash as it is unnecessary. If this pattern is targeted in "
+            "an include(), ensure the include() pattern has a trailing '/'."
         )
-
-        self.assertIn(expected_msg, warning.msg)
+        warning1, warning2 = check_url_config(None)
+        self.assertEqual(warning1.id, 'urls.W002')
+        self.assertEqual(warning1.msg, msg % '/path-starting-with-slash/')
+        self.assertEqual(warning2.id, 'urls.W002')
+        self.assertEqual(warning2.msg, msg % '/url-starting-with-slash/$')
 
     @override_settings(
         ROOT_URLCONF='check_framework.urls.beginning_with_slash',
@@ -95,7 +108,7 @@ class CheckUrlConfigTests(SimpleTestCase):
 
     def test_get_warning_for_invalid_pattern_tuple(self):
         warning = get_warning_for_invalid_pattern((r'^$', lambda x: x))[0]
-        self.assertEqual(warning.hint, "Try using url() instead of a tuple.")
+        self.assertEqual(warning.hint, "Try using path() instead of a tuple.")
 
     def test_get_warning_for_invalid_pattern_other(self):
         warning = get_warning_for_invalid_pattern(object())[0]
diff --git a/tests/check_framework/urls/beginning_with_slash.py b/tests/check_framework/urls/beginning_with_slash.py
index 736e91820e..8dac96745c 100644
--- a/tests/check_framework/urls/beginning_with_slash.py
+++ b/tests/check_framework/urls/beginning_with_slash.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 from django.conf.urls import url
+from django.urls import path
 
 urlpatterns = [
-    url(r'/starting-with-slash/$', lambda x: x),
+    path('/path-starting-with-slash/', lambda x: x),
+    url(r'/url-starting-with-slash/$', lambda x: x),
 ]
diff --git a/tests/check_framework/urls/include_contains_tuple.py b/tests/check_framework/urls/include_contains_tuple.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..02717a743c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/check_framework/urls/include_contains_tuple.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+from django.urls import include, path
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    path('', include([(r'^tuple/$', lambda x: x)])),
+]
diff --git a/tests/generic_views/urls.py b/tests/generic_views/urls.py
index 209ce2285f..b8ba5762c4 100644
--- a/tests/generic_views/urls.py
+++ b/tests/generic_views/urls.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
+from django.urls import path, re_path
 from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
 from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 
@@ -9,288 +9,212 @@ from .models import Book
 
 urlpatterns = [
     # TemplateView
-    url(r'^template/no_template/$',
-        TemplateView.as_view()),
-    url(r'^template/login_required/$',
-        login_required(TemplateView.as_view())),
-    url(r'^template/simple/(?P<foo>\w+)/$',
-        TemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html')),
-    url(r'^template/custom/(?P<foo>\w+)/$',
-        views.CustomTemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html')),
-    url(r'^template/content_type/$',
-        TemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/robots.txt', content_type='text/plain')),
-
-    url(r'^template/cached/(?P<foo>\w+)/$',
-        cache_page(2.0)(TemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html'))),
-    url(r'^template/extra_context/$',
-        TemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html', extra_context={'title': 'Title'})),
+    path('template/no_template/', TemplateView.as_view()),
+    path('template/login_required/', login_required(TemplateView.as_view())),
+    path('template/simple/<foo>/', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html')),
+    path('template/custom/<foo>/', views.CustomTemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html')),
+    path(
+        'template/content_type/',
+        TemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/robots.txt', content_type='text/plain'),
+    ),
+    path(
+        'template/cached/<foo>/',
+        cache_page(2.0)(TemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html')),
+    ),
+    path(
+        'template/extra_context/',
+        TemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html', extra_context={'title': 'Title'}),
+    ),
 
     # DetailView
-    url(r'^detail/obj/$',
-        views.ObjectDetail.as_view()),
-    url(r'^detail/artist/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$',
-        views.ArtistDetail.as_view(),
-        name="artist_detail"),
-    url(r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$',
-        views.AuthorDetail.as_view(),
-        name="author_detail"),
-    url(r'^detail/author/bycustompk/(?P<foo>[0-9]+)/$',
-        views.AuthorDetail.as_view(pk_url_kwarg='foo')),
-    url(r'^detail/author/byslug/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$',
-        views.AuthorDetail.as_view()),
-    url(r'^detail/author/bycustomslug/(?P<foo>[\w-]+)/$',
-        views.AuthorDetail.as_view(slug_url_kwarg='foo')),
-    url(r'^detail/author/bypkignoreslug/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)-(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$',
-        views.AuthorDetail.as_view()),
-    url(r'^detail/author/bypkandslug/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)-(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$',
-        views.AuthorDetail.as_view(query_pk_and_slug=True)),
-    url(r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/template_name_suffix/$',
-        views.AuthorDetail.as_view(template_name_suffix='_view')),
-    url(r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/template_name/$',
-        views.AuthorDetail.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html')),
-    url(r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/context_object_name/$',
-        views.AuthorDetail.as_view(context_object_name='thingy')),
-    url(r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/custom_detail/$',
-        views.AuthorCustomDetail.as_view()),
-    url(r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/dupe_context_object_name/$',
-        views.AuthorDetail.as_view(context_object_name='object')),
-    url(r'^detail/page/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/field/$',
-        views.PageDetail.as_view()),
-    url(r'^detail/author/invalid/url/$',
-        views.AuthorDetail.as_view()),
-    url(r'^detail/author/invalid/qs/$',
-        views.AuthorDetail.as_view(queryset=None)),
-    url(r'^detail/nonmodel/1/$',
-        views.NonModelDetail.as_view()),
-    url(r'^detail/doesnotexist/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$',
-        views.ObjectDoesNotExistDetail.as_view()),
+    path('detail/obj/', views.ObjectDetail.as_view()),
+    path('detail/artist/<int:pk>/', views.ArtistDetail.as_view(), name='artist_detail'),
+    path('detail/author/<int:pk>/', views.AuthorDetail.as_view(), name='author_detail'),
+    path('detail/author/bycustompk/<foo>/', views.AuthorDetail.as_view(pk_url_kwarg='foo')),
+    path('detail/author/byslug/<slug>/', views.AuthorDetail.as_view()),
+    path('detail/author/bycustomslug/<foo>/', views.AuthorDetail.as_view(slug_url_kwarg='foo')),
+    path('detail/author/bypkignoreslug/<int:pk>-<slug>/', views.AuthorDetail.as_view()),
+    path('detail/author/bypkandslug/<int:pk>-<slug>/', views.AuthorDetail.as_view(query_pk_and_slug=True)),
+    path('detail/author/<int:pk>/template_name_suffix/', views.AuthorDetail.as_view(template_name_suffix='_view')),
+    path(
+        'detail/author/<int:pk>/template_name/',
+        views.AuthorDetail.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html'),
+    ),
+    path('detail/author/<int:pk>/context_object_name/', views.AuthorDetail.as_view(context_object_name='thingy')),
+    path('detail/author/<int:pk>/custom_detail/', views.AuthorCustomDetail.as_view()),
+    path('detail/author/<int:pk>/dupe_context_object_name/', views.AuthorDetail.as_view(context_object_name='object')),
+    path('detail/page/<int:pk>/field/', views.PageDetail.as_view()),
+    path(r'detail/author/invalid/url/', views.AuthorDetail.as_view()),
+    path('detail/author/invalid/qs/', views.AuthorDetail.as_view(queryset=None)),
+    path('detail/nonmodel/1/', views.NonModelDetail.as_view()),
+    path('detail/doesnotexist/<pk>/', views.ObjectDoesNotExistDetail.as_view()),
     # FormView
-    url(r'^contact/$',
-        views.ContactView.as_view()),
-    url(r'^late-validation/$',
-        views.LateValidationView.as_view()),
+    path('contact/', views.ContactView.as_view()),
+    path('late-validation/', views.LateValidationView.as_view()),
 
     # Create/UpdateView
-    url(r'^edit/artists/create/$',
-        views.ArtistCreate.as_view()),
-    url(r'^edit/artists/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/update/$',
-        views.ArtistUpdate.as_view()),
+    path('edit/artists/create/', views.ArtistCreate.as_view()),
+    path('edit/artists/<int:pk>/update/', views.ArtistUpdate.as_view()),
 
-    url(r'^edit/authors/create/naive/$',
-        views.NaiveAuthorCreate.as_view()),
-    url(r'^edit/authors/create/redirect/$',
-        views.NaiveAuthorCreate.as_view(success_url='/edit/authors/create/')),
-    url(r'^edit/authors/create/interpolate_redirect/$',
-        views.NaiveAuthorCreate.as_view(success_url='/edit/author/{id}/update/')),
-    url(r'^edit/authors/create/interpolate_redirect_nonascii/$',
-        views.NaiveAuthorCreate.as_view(success_url='/%C3%A9dit/author/{id}/update/')),
-    url(r'^edit/authors/create/restricted/$',
-        views.AuthorCreateRestricted.as_view()),
-    url(r'^[eé]dit/authors/create/$',
-        views.AuthorCreate.as_view()),
-    url(r'^edit/authors/create/special/$',
-        views.SpecializedAuthorCreate.as_view()),
+    path('edit/authors/create/naive/', views.NaiveAuthorCreate.as_view()),
+    path('edit/authors/create/redirect/', views.NaiveAuthorCreate.as_view(success_url='/edit/authors/create/')),
+    path(
+        'edit/authors/create/interpolate_redirect/',
+        views.NaiveAuthorCreate.as_view(success_url='/edit/author/{id}/update/'),
+    ),
+    path(
+        'edit/authors/create/interpolate_redirect_nonascii/',
+        views.NaiveAuthorCreate.as_view(success_url='/%C3%A9dit/author/{id}/update/'),
+    ),
+    path('edit/authors/create/restricted/', views.AuthorCreateRestricted.as_view()),
+    re_path('^[eé]dit/authors/create/$', views.AuthorCreate.as_view()),
+    path('edit/authors/create/special/', views.SpecializedAuthorCreate.as_view()),
 
-    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/update/naive/$',
-        views.NaiveAuthorUpdate.as_view()),
-    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/update/redirect/$',
-        views.NaiveAuthorUpdate.as_view(success_url='/edit/authors/create/')),
-    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/update/interpolate_redirect/$',
-        views.NaiveAuthorUpdate.as_view(success_url='/edit/author/{id}/update/')),
-    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/update/interpolate_redirect_nonascii/$',
-        views.NaiveAuthorUpdate.as_view(success_url='/%C3%A9dit/author/{id}/update/')),
-    url(r'^[eé]dit/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/update/$',
-        views.AuthorUpdate.as_view()),
-    url(r'^edit/author/update/$',
-        views.OneAuthorUpdate.as_view()),
-    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/update/special/$',
-        views.SpecializedAuthorUpdate.as_view()),
-    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/delete/naive/$',
-        views.NaiveAuthorDelete.as_view()),
-    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/delete/redirect/$',
-        views.NaiveAuthorDelete.as_view(success_url='/edit/authors/create/')),
-    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/delete/interpolate_redirect/$',
-        views.NaiveAuthorDelete.as_view(success_url='/edit/authors/create/?deleted={id}')),
-    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/delete/interpolate_redirect_nonascii/$',
-        views.NaiveAuthorDelete.as_view(success_url='/%C3%A9dit/authors/create/?deleted={id}')),
-    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/delete/$',
-        views.AuthorDelete.as_view()),
-    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/delete/special/$',
-        views.SpecializedAuthorDelete.as_view()),
+    path('edit/author/<int:pk>/update/naive/', views.NaiveAuthorUpdate.as_view()),
+    path(
+        'edit/author/<int:pk>/update/redirect/',
+        views.NaiveAuthorUpdate.as_view(success_url='/edit/authors/create/')
+    ),
+    path(
+        'edit/author/<int:pk>/update/interpolate_redirect/',
+        views.NaiveAuthorUpdate.as_view(success_url='/edit/author/{id}/update/')
+    ),
+    path(
+        'edit/author/<int:pk>/update/interpolate_redirect_nonascii/',
+        views.NaiveAuthorUpdate.as_view(success_url='/%C3%A9dit/author/{id}/update/'),
+    ),
+    re_path('^[eé]dit/author/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/update/$', views.AuthorUpdate.as_view()),
+    path('edit/author/update/', views.OneAuthorUpdate.as_view()),
+    path('edit/author/<int:pk>/update/special/', views.SpecializedAuthorUpdate.as_view()),
+    path('edit/author/<int:pk>/delete/naive/', views.NaiveAuthorDelete.as_view()),
+    path(
+        'edit/author/<int:pk>/delete/redirect/',
+        views.NaiveAuthorDelete.as_view(success_url='/edit/authors/create/'),
+    ),
+    path(
+        'edit/author/<int:pk>/delete/interpolate_redirect/',
+        views.NaiveAuthorDelete.as_view(success_url='/edit/authors/create/?deleted={id}')
+    ),
+    path(
+        'edit/author/<int:pk>/delete/interpolate_redirect_nonascii/',
+        views.NaiveAuthorDelete.as_view(success_url='/%C3%A9dit/authors/create/?deleted={id}')
+    ),
+    path('edit/author/<int:pk>/delete/', views.AuthorDelete.as_view()),
+    path('edit/author/<int:pk>/delete/special/', views.SpecializedAuthorDelete.as_view()),
 
     # ArchiveIndexView
-    url(r'^dates/books/$',
-        views.BookArchive.as_view()),
-    url(r'^dates/books/context_object_name/$',
-        views.BookArchive.as_view(context_object_name='thingies')),
-    url(r'^dates/books/allow_empty/$',
-        views.BookArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/template_name/$',
-        views.BookArchive.as_view(template_name='generic_views/list.html')),
-    url(r'^dates/books/template_name_suffix/$',
-        views.BookArchive.as_view(template_name_suffix='_detail')),
-    url(r'^dates/books/invalid/$',
-        views.BookArchive.as_view(queryset=None)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/paginated/$',
-        views.BookArchive.as_view(paginate_by=10)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/reverse/$',
-        views.BookArchive.as_view(queryset=Book.objects.order_by('pubdate'))),
-    url(r'^dates/books/by_month/$',
-        views.BookArchive.as_view(date_list_period='month')),
-    url(r'^dates/booksignings/$',
-        views.BookSigningArchive.as_view()),
-    url(r'^dates/books/sortedbyname/$',
-        views.BookArchive.as_view(ordering='name')),
-    url(r'^dates/books/sortedbynamedec/$',
-        views.BookArchive.as_view(ordering='-name')),
+    path('dates/books/', views.BookArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/context_object_name/', views.BookArchive.as_view(context_object_name='thingies')),
+    path('dates/books/allow_empty/', views.BookArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
+    path('dates/books/template_name/', views.BookArchive.as_view(template_name='generic_views/list.html')),
+    path('dates/books/template_name_suffix/', views.BookArchive.as_view(template_name_suffix='_detail')),
+    path('dates/books/invalid/', views.BookArchive.as_view(queryset=None)),
+    path('dates/books/paginated/', views.BookArchive.as_view(paginate_by=10)),
+    path('dates/books/reverse/', views.BookArchive.as_view(queryset=Book.objects.order_by('pubdate'))),
+    path('dates/books/by_month/', views.BookArchive.as_view(date_list_period='month')),
+    path('dates/booksignings/', views.BookSigningArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/sortedbyname/', views.BookArchive.as_view(ordering='name')),
+    path('dates/books/sortedbynamedec/', views.BookArchive.as_view(ordering='-name')),
 
 
     # ListView
-    url(r'^list/dict/$',
-        views.DictList.as_view()),
-    url(r'^list/dict/paginated/$',
-        views.DictList.as_view(paginate_by=1)),
-    url(r'^list/artists/$',
-        views.ArtistList.as_view(),
-        name="artists_list"),
-    url(r'^list/authors/$',
-        views.AuthorList.as_view(),
-        name="authors_list"),
-    url(r'^list/authors/paginated/$',
-        views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=30)),
-    url(r'^list/authors/paginated/(?P<page>[0-9]+)/$',
-        views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=30)),
-    url(r'^list/authors/paginated-orphaned/$',
-        views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=30, paginate_orphans=2)),
-    url(r'^list/authors/notempty/$',
-        views.AuthorList.as_view(allow_empty=False)),
-    url(r'^list/authors/notempty/paginated/$',
-        views.AuthorList.as_view(allow_empty=False, paginate_by=2)),
-    url(r'^list/authors/template_name/$',
-        views.AuthorList.as_view(template_name='generic_views/list.html')),
-    url(r'^list/authors/template_name_suffix/$',
-        views.AuthorList.as_view(template_name_suffix='_objects')),
-    url(r'^list/authors/context_object_name/$',
-        views.AuthorList.as_view(context_object_name='author_list')),
-    url(r'^list/authors/dupe_context_object_name/$',
-        views.AuthorList.as_view(context_object_name='object_list')),
-    url(r'^list/authors/invalid/$',
-        views.AuthorList.as_view(queryset=None)),
-    url(r'^list/authors/paginated/custom_class/$',
-        views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=5, paginator_class=views.CustomPaginator)),
-    url(r'^list/authors/paginated/custom_page_kwarg/$',
-        views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=30, page_kwarg='pagina')),
-    url(r'^list/authors/paginated/custom_constructor/$',
-        views.AuthorListCustomPaginator.as_view()),
-    url(r'^list/books/sorted/$',
-        views.BookList.as_view(ordering='name')),
-    url(r'^list/books/sortedbypagesandnamedec/$',
-        views.BookList.as_view(ordering=('pages', '-name'))),
+    path('list/dict/', views.DictList.as_view()),
+    path('list/dict/paginated/', views.DictList.as_view(paginate_by=1)),
+    path('list/artists/', views.ArtistList.as_view(), name='artists_list'),
+    path('list/authors/', views.AuthorList.as_view(), name='authors_list'),
+    path('list/authors/paginated/', views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=30)),
+    path('list/authors/paginated/<int:page>/', views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=30)),
+    path('list/authors/paginated-orphaned/', views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=30, paginate_orphans=2)),
+    path('list/authors/notempty/', views.AuthorList.as_view(allow_empty=False)),
+    path('list/authors/notempty/paginated/', views.AuthorList.as_view(allow_empty=False, paginate_by=2)),
+    path('list/authors/template_name/', views.AuthorList.as_view(template_name='generic_views/list.html')),
+    path('list/authors/template_name_suffix/', views.AuthorList.as_view(template_name_suffix='_objects')),
+    path('list/authors/context_object_name/', views.AuthorList.as_view(context_object_name='author_list')),
+    path('list/authors/dupe_context_object_name/', views.AuthorList.as_view(context_object_name='object_list')),
+    path('list/authors/invalid/', views.AuthorList.as_view(queryset=None)),
+    path(
+        'list/authors/paginated/custom_class/',
+        views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=5, paginator_class=views.CustomPaginator),
+    ),
+    path('list/authors/paginated/custom_page_kwarg/', views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=30, page_kwarg='pagina')),
+    path('list/authors/paginated/custom_constructor/', views.AuthorListCustomPaginator.as_view()),
+    path('list/books/sorted/', views.BookList.as_view(ordering='name')),
+    path('list/books/sortedbypagesandnamedec/', views.BookList.as_view(ordering=('pages', '-name'))),
 
     # YearArchiveView
     # Mixing keyword and positional captures below is intentional; the views
     # ought to be able to accept either.
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/$',
-        views.BookYearArchive.as_view()),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/make_object_list/$',
-        views.BookYearArchive.as_view(make_object_list=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/allow_empty/$',
-        views.BookYearArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/allow_future/$',
-        views.BookYearArchive.as_view(allow_future=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/paginated/$',
-        views.BookYearArchive.as_view(make_object_list=True, paginate_by=30)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/sortedbyname/$',
-        views.BookYearArchive.as_view(make_object_list=True, ordering='name')),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/sortedbypageandnamedec/$',
-        views.BookYearArchive.as_view(make_object_list=True, ordering=('pages', '-name'))),
-    url(r'^dates/books/no_year/$',
-        views.BookYearArchive.as_view()),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/reverse/$',
-        views.BookYearArchive.as_view(queryset=Book.objects.order_by('pubdate'))),
-    url(r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/$',
-        views.BookSigningYearArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/', views.BookYearArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/make_object_list/', views.BookYearArchive.as_view(make_object_list=True)),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/allow_empty/', views.BookYearArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/allow_future/', views.BookYearArchive.as_view(allow_future=True)),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/paginated/', views.BookYearArchive.as_view(make_object_list=True, paginate_by=30)),
+    path(
+        'dates/books/<int:year>/sortedbyname/',
+        views.BookYearArchive.as_view(make_object_list=True, ordering='name'),
+    ),
+    path(
+        'dates/books/<int:year>/sortedbypageandnamedec/',
+        views.BookYearArchive.as_view(make_object_list=True, ordering=('pages', '-name')),
+    ),
+    path('dates/books/no_year/', views.BookYearArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/reverse/', views.BookYearArchive.as_view(queryset=Book.objects.order_by('pubdate'))),
+    path('dates/booksignings/<int:year>/', views.BookSigningYearArchive.as_view()),
 
     # MonthArchiveView
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/$',
-        views.BookMonthArchive.as_view()),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[0-9]{1,2})/$',
-        views.BookMonthArchive.as_view(month_format='%m')),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/allow_empty/$',
-        views.BookMonthArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/allow_future/$',
-        views.BookMonthArchive.as_view(allow_future=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/paginated/$',
-        views.BookMonthArchive.as_view(paginate_by=30)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/no_month/$',
-        views.BookMonthArchive.as_view()),
-    url(r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/$',
-        views.BookSigningMonthArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<int:month>/', views.BookMonthArchive.as_view(month_format='%m')),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/', views.BookMonthArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/allow_empty/', views.BookMonthArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/allow_future/', views.BookMonthArchive.as_view(allow_future=True)),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/paginated/', views.BookMonthArchive.as_view(paginate_by=30)),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/no_month/', views.BookMonthArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/booksignings/<int:year>/<month>/', views.BookSigningMonthArchive.as_view()),
 
     # WeekArchiveView
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/week/(?P<week>[0-9]{1,2})/$',
-        views.BookWeekArchive.as_view()),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/week/(?P<week>[0-9]{1,2})/allow_empty/$',
-        views.BookWeekArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/week/(?P<week>[0-9]{1,2})/allow_future/$',
-        views.BookWeekArchive.as_view(allow_future=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/week/(?P<week>[0-9]{1,2})/paginated/$',
-        views.BookWeekArchive.as_view(paginate_by=30)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/week/no_week/$',
-        views.BookWeekArchive.as_view()),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/week/(?P<week>[0-9]{1,2})/monday/$',
-        views.BookWeekArchive.as_view(week_format='%W')),
-    url(r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/week/(?P<week>[0-9]{1,2})/$',
-        views.BookSigningWeekArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/week/<int:week>/', views.BookWeekArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/week/<int:week>/allow_empty/', views.BookWeekArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/week/<int:week>/allow_future/', views.BookWeekArchive.as_view(allow_future=True)),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/week/<int:week>/paginated/', views.BookWeekArchive.as_view(paginate_by=30)),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/week/no_week/', views.BookWeekArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/week/<int:week>/monday/', views.BookWeekArchive.as_view(week_format='%W')),
+    path('dates/booksignings/<int:year>/week/<int:week>/', views.BookSigningWeekArchive.as_view()),
 
     # DayArchiveView
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/$',
-        views.BookDayArchive.as_view()),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[0-9]{1,2})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/$',
-        views.BookDayArchive.as_view(month_format='%m')),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/allow_empty/$',
-        views.BookDayArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/allow_future/$',
-        views.BookDayArchive.as_view(allow_future=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/allow_empty_and_future/$',
-        views.BookDayArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True, allow_future=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/paginated/$',
-        views.BookDayArchive.as_view(paginate_by=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/no_day/$',
-        views.BookDayArchive.as_view()),
-    url(r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/$',
-        views.BookSigningDayArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<int:month>/<int:day>/', views.BookDayArchive.as_view(month_format='%m')),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/<int:day>/', views.BookDayArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/<int:day>/allow_empty/', views.BookDayArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/<int:day>/allow_future/', views.BookDayArchive.as_view(allow_future=True)),
+    path(
+        'dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/<int:day>/allow_empty_and_future/',
+        views.BookDayArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True, allow_future=True),
+    ),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/<int:day>/paginated/', views.BookDayArchive.as_view(paginate_by=True)),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/no_day/', views.BookDayArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/booksignings/<int:year>/<month>/<int:day>/', views.BookSigningDayArchive.as_view()),
 
     # TodayArchiveView
-    url(r'^dates/books/today/$',
-        views.BookTodayArchive.as_view()),
-    url(r'^dates/books/today/allow_empty/$',
-        views.BookTodayArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/booksignings/today/$',
-        views.BookSigningTodayArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/today/', views.BookTodayArchive.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/today/allow_empty/', views.BookTodayArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
+    path('dates/booksignings/today/', views.BookSigningTodayArchive.as_view()),
 
     # DateDetailView
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$',
-        views.BookDetail.as_view()),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[0-9]{1,2})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$',
-        views.BookDetail.as_view(month_format='%m')),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/allow_future/$',
-        views.BookDetail.as_view(allow_future=True)),
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/nopk/$',
-        views.BookDetail.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<int:month>/<day>/<int:pk>/', views.BookDetail.as_view(month_format='%m')),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/<day>/<int:pk>/', views.BookDetail.as_view()),
+    path(
+        'dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/<int:day>/<int:pk>/allow_future/',
+        views.BookDetail.as_view(allow_future=True),
+    ),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/<int:day>/nopk/', views.BookDetail.as_view()),
 
-    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/byslug/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$',
-        views.BookDetail.as_view()),
+    path('dates/books/<int:year>/<month>/<int:day>/byslug/<slug:slug>/', views.BookDetail.as_view()),
 
-    url(
-        r'^dates/books/get_object_custom_queryset/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/'
-        r'(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$',
+    path(
+        'dates/books/get_object_custom_queryset/<int:year>/<month>/<int:day>/<int:pk>/',
         views.BookDetailGetObjectCustomQueryset.as_view(),
     ),
 
-    url(r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>[0-9]{1,2})/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$',
-        views.BookSigningDetail.as_view()),
+    path('dates/booksignings/<int:year>/<month>/<int:day>/<int:pk>/', views.BookSigningDetail.as_view()),
 
     # Useful for testing redirects
-    url(r'^accounts/login/$', auth_views.LoginView.as_view())
+    path('accounts/login/', auth_views.LoginView.as_view())
 ]
diff --git a/tests/i18n/patterns/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo b/tests/i18n/patterns/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo
index e3109784c7..5eac50466c 100644
Binary files a/tests/i18n/patterns/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo and b/tests/i18n/patterns/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo differ
diff --git a/tests/i18n/patterns/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/django.po b/tests/i18n/patterns/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/django.po
index 5c31aa7f8a..a938e3371d 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/patterns/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/django.po
+++ b/tests/i18n/patterns/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/django.po
@@ -36,3 +36,7 @@ msgstr "^profiel/"
 #: urls/namespace.py:9 urls/wrong_namespace.py:10
 msgid "^register/$"
 msgstr "^registreren/$"
+
+#: urls/namespace.py:12
+msgid "register-as-path/"
+msgstr "registreren-als-pad/"
diff --git a/tests/i18n/patterns/tests.py b/tests/i18n/patterns/tests.py
index de154c2343..2423614f08 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/patterns/tests.py
+++ b/tests/i18n/patterns/tests.py
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ class URLTranslationTests(URLTestCaseBase):
             self.assertEqual(translate_url('/en/users/', 'nl'), '/nl/gebruikers/')
             # Namespaced URL
             self.assertEqual(translate_url('/en/account/register/', 'nl'), '/nl/profiel/registreren/')
+            # path() URL pattern
+            self.assertEqual(translate_url('/en/account/register-as-path/', 'nl'), '/nl/profiel/registreren-als-pad/')
             self.assertEqual(translation.get_language(), 'en')
 
         with translation.override('nl'):
@@ -169,9 +171,11 @@ class URLNamespaceTests(URLTestCaseBase):
     def test_account_register(self):
         with translation.override('en'):
             self.assertEqual(reverse('account:register'), '/en/account/register/')
+            self.assertEqual(reverse('account:register-as-path'), '/en/account/register-as-path/')
 
         with translation.override('nl'):
             self.assertEqual(reverse('account:register'), '/nl/profiel/registreren/')
+            self.assertEqual(reverse('account:register-as-path'), '/nl/profiel/registreren-als-pad/')
 
 
 class URLRedirectTests(URLTestCaseBase):
@@ -322,6 +326,18 @@ class URLResponseTests(URLTestCaseBase):
         self.assertEqual(response['content-language'], 'pt-br')
         self.assertEqual(response.context['LANGUAGE_CODE'], 'pt-br')
 
+    def test_en_path(self):
+        response = self.client.get('/en/account/register-as-path/')
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+        self.assertEqual(response['content-language'], 'en')
+        self.assertEqual(response.context['LANGUAGE_CODE'], 'en')
+
+    def test_nl_path(self):
+        response = self.client.get('/nl/profiel/registreren-als-pad/')
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+        self.assertEqual(response['content-language'], 'nl')
+        self.assertEqual(response.context['LANGUAGE_CODE'], 'nl')
+
 
 class URLRedirectWithScriptAliasTests(URLTestCaseBase):
     """
diff --git a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/namespace.py b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/namespace.py
index 2f19640d37..9858c8cd5e 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/namespace.py
+++ b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/namespace.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from django.conf.urls import url
+from django.urls import path
 from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
 from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 
@@ -8,4 +9,5 @@ app_name = 'account'
 urlpatterns = [
     url(_(r'^register/$'), view, name='register'),
     url(_(r'^register-without-slash$'), view, name='register-without-slash'),
+    path(_('register-as-path/'), view, name='register-as-path'),
 ]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns/__init__.py b/tests/urlpatterns/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns/converter_urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns/converter_urls.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0cc57bd46e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns/converter_urls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+from django.urls import path
+
+from . import views
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    path('{x}/<{x}:{x}>/'.format(x=name), views.empty_view, name=name)
+    for name in ('int', 'path', 'slug', 'str', 'uuid')
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns/converters.py b/tests/urlpatterns/converters.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..14a65b0483
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns/converters.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import base64
+
+
+class Base64Converter:
+    regex = r'[a-zA-Z0-9+/]*={0,2}'
+
+    def to_python(self, value):
+        return base64.b64decode(value)
+
+    def to_url(self, value):
+        return base64.b64encode(value).decode('ascii')
+
+
+class DynamicConverter:
+    _dynamic_to_python = None
+    _dynamic_to_url = None
+
+    @property
+    def regex(self):
+        return r'[0-9a-zA-Z]+'
+
+    @regex.setter
+    def regex(self):
+        raise Exception("You can't modify the regular expression.")
+
+    def to_python(self, value):
+        return type(self)._dynamic_to_python(value)
+
+    def to_url(self, value):
+        return type(self)._dynamic_to_url(value)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def register_to_python(cls, value):
+        cls._dynamic_to_python = value
+
+    @classmethod
+    def register_to_url(cls, value):
+        cls._dynamic_to_url = value
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns/path_base64_urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns/path_base64_urls.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..872636f06c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns/path_base64_urls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+from django.urls import path, register_converter
+
+from . import converters, views
+
+register_converter(converters.Base64Converter, 'base64')
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    path('base64/<base64:value>/', views.empty_view, name='base64'),
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns/path_dynamic_urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns/path_dynamic_urls.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0e5afe1df0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns/path_dynamic_urls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+from django.urls import path, register_converter
+
+from . import converters, views
+
+register_converter(converters.DynamicConverter, 'dynamic')
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    path('dynamic/<dynamic:value>/', views.empty_view, name='dynamic'),
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns/path_urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns/path_urls.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..097f3cb166
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns/path_urls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+from django.conf.urls import include
+from django.urls import path
+
+from . import views
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    path('articles/2003/', views.empty_view, name='articles-2003'),
+    path('articles/<int:year>/', views.empty_view, name='articles-year'),
+    path('articles/<int:year>/<int:month>/', views.empty_view, name='articles-year-month'),
+    path('articles/<int:year>/<int:month>/<int:day>/', views.empty_view, name='articles-year-month-day'),
+    path('users/', views.empty_view, name='users'),
+    path('users/<id>/', views.empty_view, name='user-with-id'),
+    path('included_urls/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_urls')),
+    path('<lang>/<path:url>/', views.empty_view, name='lang-and-path'),
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns/tests.py b/tests/urlpatterns/tests.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b200aed06d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns/tests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+import uuid
+
+from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
+from django.test import SimpleTestCase
+from django.test.utils import override_settings
+from django.urls import Resolver404, path, resolve, reverse
+
+from .converters import DynamicConverter
+from .views import empty_view
+
+
+@override_settings(ROOT_URLCONF='urlpatterns.path_urls')
+class SimplifiedURLTests(SimpleTestCase):
+
+    def test_path_lookup_without_parameters(self):
+        match = resolve('/articles/2003/')
+        self.assertEqual(match.url_name, 'articles-2003')
+        self.assertEqual(match.args, ())
+        self.assertEqual(match.kwargs, {})
+
+    def test_path_lookup_with_typed_parameters(self):
+        match = resolve('/articles/2015/')
+        self.assertEqual(match.url_name, 'articles-year')
+        self.assertEqual(match.args, ())
+        self.assertEqual(match.kwargs, {'year': 2015})
+
+    def test_path_lookup_with_multiple_paramaters(self):
+        match = resolve('/articles/2015/04/12/')
+        self.assertEqual(match.url_name, 'articles-year-month-day')
+        self.assertEqual(match.args, ())
+        self.assertEqual(match.kwargs, {'year': 2015, 'month': 4, 'day': 12})
+
+    def test_two_variable_at_start_of_path_pattern(self):
+        match = resolve('/en/foo/')
+        self.assertEqual(match.url_name, 'lang-and-path')
+        self.assertEqual(match.kwargs, {'lang': 'en', 'url': 'foo'})
+
+    def test_path_reverse_without_parameter(self):
+        url = reverse('articles-2003')
+        self.assertEqual(url, '/articles/2003/')
+
+    def test_path_reverse_with_parameter(self):
+        url = reverse('articles-year-month-day', kwargs={'year': 2015, 'month': 4, 'day': 12})
+        self.assertEqual(url, '/articles/2015/4/12/')
+
+    @override_settings(ROOT_URLCONF='urlpatterns.path_base64_urls')
+    def test_non_identical_converter_resolve(self):
+        match = resolve('/base64/aGVsbG8=/')  # base64 of 'hello'
+        self.assertEqual(match.url_name, 'base64')
+        self.assertEqual(match.kwargs, {'value': b'hello'})
+
+    @override_settings(ROOT_URLCONF='urlpatterns.path_base64_urls')
+    def test_non_identical_converter_reverse(self):
+        url = reverse('base64', kwargs={'value': b'hello'})
+        self.assertEqual(url, '/base64/aGVsbG8=/')
+
+    def test_path_inclusion_is_matchable(self):
+        match = resolve('/included_urls/extra/something/')
+        self.assertEqual(match.url_name, 'inner-extra')
+        self.assertEqual(match.kwargs, {'extra': 'something'})
+
+    def test_path_inclusion_is_reversable(self):
+        url = reverse('inner-extra', kwargs={'extra': 'something'})
+        self.assertEqual(url, '/included_urls/extra/something/')
+
+    def test_invalid_converter(self):
+        msg = "URL route 'foo/<nonexistent:var>/' uses invalid converter 'nonexistent'."
+        with self.assertRaisesMessage(ImproperlyConfigured, msg):
+            path('foo/<nonexistent:var>/', empty_view)
+
+
+@override_settings(ROOT_URLCONF='urlpatterns.converter_urls')
+class ConverterTests(SimpleTestCase):
+
+    def test_matching_urls(self):
+        def no_converter(x):
+            return x
+
+        test_data = (
+            ('int', {'0', '1', '01', 1234567890}, int),
+            ('str', {'abcxyz'}, no_converter),
+            ('path', {'allows.ANY*characters'}, no_converter),
+            ('slug', {'abcxyz-ABCXYZ_01234567890'}, no_converter),
+            ('uuid', {'39da9369-838e-4750-91a5-f7805cd82839'}, uuid.UUID),
+        )
+        for url_name, url_suffixes, converter in test_data:
+            for url_suffix in url_suffixes:
+                url = '/%s/%s/' % (url_name, url_suffix)
+                with self.subTest(url=url):
+                    match = resolve(url)
+                    self.assertEqual(match.url_name, url_name)
+                    self.assertEqual(match.kwargs, {url_name: converter(url_suffix)})
+                    # reverse() works with string parameters.
+                    string_kwargs = {url_name: url_suffix}
+                    self.assertEqual(reverse(url_name, kwargs=string_kwargs), url)
+                    # reverse() also works with native types (int, UUID, etc.).
+                    if converter is not no_converter:
+                        # The converted value might be different for int (a
+                        # leading zero is lost in the conversion).
+                        converted_value = match.kwargs[url_name]
+                        converted_url = '/%s/%s/' % (url_name, converted_value)
+                        self.assertEqual(reverse(url_name, kwargs={url_name: converted_value}), converted_url)
+
+    def test_nonmatching_urls(self):
+        test_data = (
+            ('int', {'-1', 'letters'}),
+            ('str', {'', '/'}),
+            ('path', {''}),
+            ('slug', {'', 'stars*notallowed'}),
+            ('uuid', {
+                '',
+                '9da9369-838e-4750-91a5-f7805cd82839',
+                '39da9369-838-4750-91a5-f7805cd82839',
+                '39da9369-838e-475-91a5-f7805cd82839',
+                '39da9369-838e-4750-91a-f7805cd82839',
+                '39da9369-838e-4750-91a5-f7805cd8283',
+            }),
+        )
+        for url_name, url_suffixes in test_data:
+            for url_suffix in url_suffixes:
+                url = '/%s/%s/' % (url_name, url_suffix)
+                with self.subTest(url=url), self.assertRaises(Resolver404):
+                    resolve(url)
+
+
+class ParameterRestrictionTests(SimpleTestCase):
+    def test_non_identifier_parameter_name_causes_exception(self):
+        msg = (
+            "URL route 'hello/<int:1>/' uses parameter name '1' which isn't "
+            "a valid Python identifier."
+        )
+        with self.assertRaisesMessage(ImproperlyConfigured, msg):
+            path(r'hello/<int:1>/', lambda r: None)
+
+    def test_allows_non_ascii_but_valid_identifiers(self):
+        # \u0394 is "GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA", a valid identifier.
+        p = path('hello/<str:\u0394>/', lambda r: None)
+        match = p.resolve('hello/1/')
+        self.assertEqual(match.kwargs, {'\u0394': '1'})
+
+
+@override_settings(ROOT_URLCONF='urlpatterns.path_dynamic_urls')
+class ConversionExceptionTests(SimpleTestCase):
+    """How are errors in Converter.to_python() and to_url() handled?"""
+
+    def test_resolve_value_error_means_no_match(self):
+        @DynamicConverter.register_to_python
+        def raises_value_error(value):
+            raise ValueError()
+        with self.assertRaises(Resolver404):
+            resolve('/dynamic/abc/')
+
+    def test_resolve_type_error_propogates(self):
+        @DynamicConverter.register_to_python
+        def raises_type_error(value):
+            raise TypeError('This type error propagates.')
+        with self.assertRaisesMessage(TypeError, 'This type error propagates.'):
+            resolve('/dynamic/abc/')
+
+    def test_reverse_value_error_propagates(self):
+        @DynamicConverter.register_to_url
+        def raises_value_error(value):
+            raise ValueError('This value error propagates.')
+        with self.assertRaisesMessage(ValueError, 'This value error propagates.'):
+            reverse('dynamic', kwargs={'value': object()})
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns/views.py b/tests/urlpatterns/views.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..50e23d1782
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns/views.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+from django.http import HttpResponse
+
+
+def empty_view(request, *args, **kwargs):
+    return HttpResponse('')
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/test_localeregexprovider.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/test_localeregexdescriptor.py
similarity index 83%
rename from tests/urlpatterns_reverse/test_localeregexprovider.py
rename to tests/urlpatterns_reverse/test_localeregexdescriptor.py
index 1fbba849c6..25e6cd962a 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/test_localeregexprovider.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/test_localeregexdescriptor.py
@@ -3,15 +3,14 @@ from unittest import mock
 
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.test import SimpleTestCase, override_settings
-from django.urls import LocaleRegexProvider
-from django.urls.resolvers import LocaleRegexDescriptor
+from django.urls.resolvers import LocaleRegexDescriptor, RegexPattern
 from django.utils import translation
 
 here = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 
 
 @override_settings(LOCALE_PATHS=[os.path.join(here, 'translations', 'locale')])
-class LocaleRegexProviderTests(SimpleTestCase):
+class LocaleRegexDescriptorTests(SimpleTestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         translation.trans_real._translations = {}
 
@@ -19,7 +18,7 @@ class LocaleRegexProviderTests(SimpleTestCase):
         translation.trans_real._translations = {}
 
     def test_translated_regex_compiled_per_language(self):
-        provider = LocaleRegexProvider(translation.gettext_lazy('^foo/$'))
+        provider = RegexPattern(translation.gettext_lazy('^foo/$'))
         with translation.override('de'):
             de_compiled = provider.regex
             # compiled only once per language
@@ -33,7 +32,7 @@ class LocaleRegexProviderTests(SimpleTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(de_compiled, de_compiled_2)
 
     def test_nontranslated_regex_compiled_once(self):
-        provider = LocaleRegexProvider('^foo/$')
+        provider = RegexPattern('^foo/$')
         with translation.override('de'):
             de_compiled = provider.regex
         with translation.override('fr'):
@@ -46,10 +45,10 @@ class LocaleRegexProviderTests(SimpleTestCase):
 
     def test_regex_compile_error(self):
         """Regex errors are re-raised as ImproperlyConfigured."""
-        provider = LocaleRegexProvider('*')
+        provider = RegexPattern('*')
         msg = '"*" is not a valid regular expression: nothing to repeat'
         with self.assertRaisesMessage(ImproperlyConfigured, msg):
             provider.regex
 
     def test_access_locale_regex_descriptor(self):
-        self.assertIsInstance(LocaleRegexProvider.regex, LocaleRegexDescriptor)
+        self.assertIsInstance(RegexPattern.regex, LocaleRegexDescriptor)
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/tests.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/tests.py
index e3b522f55f..86f7ed5667 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/tests.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/tests.py
@@ -17,9 +17,10 @@ from django.shortcuts import redirect
 from django.test import SimpleTestCase, TestCase, override_settings
 from django.test.utils import override_script_prefix
 from django.urls import (
-    NoReverseMatch, RegexURLPattern, RegexURLResolver, Resolver404,
-    ResolverMatch, get_callable, get_resolver, resolve, reverse, reverse_lazy,
+    NoReverseMatch, Resolver404, ResolverMatch, URLPattern, URLResolver,
+    get_callable, get_resolver, resolve, reverse, reverse_lazy,
 )
+from django.urls.resolvers import RegexPattern
 
 from . import middleware, urlconf_outer, views
 from .utils import URLObject
@@ -259,9 +260,9 @@ class NoURLPatternsTests(SimpleTestCase):
 
     def test_no_urls_exception(self):
         """
-        RegexURLResolver should raise an exception when no urlpatterns exist.
+        URLResolver should raise an exception when no urlpatterns exist.
         """
-        resolver = RegexURLResolver(r'^$', settings.ROOT_URLCONF)
+        resolver = URLResolver(RegexPattern(r'^$'), settings.ROOT_URLCONF)
 
         with self.assertRaisesMessage(
             ImproperlyConfigured,
@@ -368,13 +369,13 @@ class URLPatternReverse(SimpleTestCase):
 class ResolverTests(SimpleTestCase):
     def test_resolver_repr(self):
         """
-        Test repr of RegexURLResolver, especially when urlconf_name is a list
+        Test repr of URLResolver, especially when urlconf_name is a list
         (#17892).
         """
         # Pick a resolver from a namespaced URLconf
         resolver = get_resolver('urlpatterns_reverse.namespace_urls')
         sub_resolver = resolver.namespace_dict['test-ns1'][1]
-        self.assertIn('<RegexURLPattern list>', repr(sub_resolver))
+        self.assertIn('<URLPattern list>', repr(sub_resolver))
 
     def test_reverse_lazy_object_coercion_by_resolve(self):
         """
@@ -445,13 +446,13 @@ class ResolverTests(SimpleTestCase):
         # you try to resolve a nonexistent URL in the first level of included
         # URLs in named_urls.py (e.g., '/included/nonexistent-url')
         url_types_names = [
-            [{'type': RegexURLPattern, 'name': 'named-url1'}],
-            [{'type': RegexURLPattern, 'name': 'named-url2'}],
-            [{'type': RegexURLPattern, 'name': None}],
-            [{'type': RegexURLResolver}, {'type': RegexURLPattern, 'name': 'named-url3'}],
-            [{'type': RegexURLResolver}, {'type': RegexURLPattern, 'name': 'named-url4'}],
-            [{'type': RegexURLResolver}, {'type': RegexURLPattern, 'name': None}],
-            [{'type': RegexURLResolver}, {'type': RegexURLResolver}],
+            [{'type': URLPattern, 'name': 'named-url1'}],
+            [{'type': URLPattern, 'name': 'named-url2'}],
+            [{'type': URLPattern, 'name': None}],
+            [{'type': URLResolver}, {'type': URLPattern, 'name': 'named-url3'}],
+            [{'type': URLResolver}, {'type': URLPattern, 'name': 'named-url4'}],
+            [{'type': URLResolver}, {'type': URLPattern, 'name': None}],
+            [{'type': URLResolver}, {'type': URLResolver}],
         ]
         with self.assertRaisesMessage(Resolver404, 'tried') as cm:
             resolve('/included/nonexistent-url', urlconf=urls)
@@ -494,10 +495,10 @@ class ResolverTests(SimpleTestCase):
 
     def test_populate_concurrency(self):
         """
-        RegexURLResolver._populate() can be called concurrently, but not more
+        URLResolver._populate() can be called concurrently, but not more
         than once per thread (#26888).
         """
-        resolver = RegexURLResolver(r'^/', 'urlpatterns_reverse.urls')
+        resolver = URLResolver(RegexPattern(r'^/'), 'urlpatterns_reverse.urls')
         resolver._local.populating = True
         thread = threading.Thread(target=resolver._populate)
         thread.start()
@@ -1039,8 +1040,8 @@ class ErrorHandlerResolutionTests(SimpleTestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         urlconf = 'urlpatterns_reverse.urls_error_handlers'
         urlconf_callables = 'urlpatterns_reverse.urls_error_handlers_callables'
-        self.resolver = RegexURLResolver(r'^$', urlconf)
-        self.callable_resolver = RegexURLResolver(r'^$', urlconf_callables)
+        self.resolver = URLResolver(RegexPattern(r'^$'), urlconf)
+        self.callable_resolver = URLResolver(RegexPattern(r'^$'), urlconf_callables)
 
     def test_named_handlers(self):
         handler = (empty_view, {})
diff --git a/tests/view_tests/tests/test_debug.py b/tests/view_tests/tests/test_debug.py
index 71c60210e4..b677fd98c9 100644
--- a/tests/view_tests/tests/test_debug.py
+++ b/tests/view_tests/tests/test_debug.py
@@ -112,7 +112,14 @@ class DebugViewTests(LoggingCaptureMixin, SimpleTestCase):
     def test_404_not_in_urls(self):
         response = self.client.get('/not-in-urls')
         self.assertNotContains(response, "Raised by:", status_code=404)
+        self.assertContains(response, "Django tried these URL patterns", status_code=404)
         self.assertContains(response, "<code>not-in-urls</code>, didn't match", status_code=404)
+        # Pattern and view name of a RegexURLPattern appear.
+        self.assertContains(response, r"^regex-post/(?P&lt;pk&gt;[0-9]+)/$", status_code=404)
+        self.assertContains(response, "[name='regex-post']", status_code=404)
+        # Pattern and view name of a RoutePattern appear.
+        self.assertContains(response, r"path-post/&lt;int:pk&gt;/", status_code=404)
+        self.assertContains(response, "[name='path-post']", status_code=404)
 
     @override_settings(ROOT_URLCONF=WithoutEmptyPathUrls)
     def test_404_empty_path_not_in_urls(self):
diff --git a/tests/view_tests/tests/test_static.py b/tests/view_tests/tests/test_static.py
index ab376ba386..03cb19ea02 100644
--- a/tests/view_tests/tests/test_static.py
+++ b/tests/view_tests/tests/test_static.py
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ class StaticHelperTest(StaticTests):
         urls.urlpatterns = self._old_views_urlpatterns
 
     def test_prefix(self):
-        self.assertEqual(static('test')[0].regex.pattern, '^test(?P<path>.*)$')
+        self.assertEqual(static('test')[0].pattern.regex.pattern, '^test(?P<path>.*)$')
 
     @override_settings(DEBUG=False)
     def test_debug_off(self):
diff --git a/tests/view_tests/urls.py b/tests/view_tests/urls.py
index 1c1f0d0e12..c487dd7cb9 100644
--- a/tests/view_tests/urls.py
+++ b/tests/view_tests/urls.py
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
+import os
 from functools import partial
-from os import path
 
 from django.conf.urls import include, url
 from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
+from django.urls import path, re_path
 from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
 from django.views import defaults, i18n, static
 
 from . import views
 
-base_dir = path.dirname(path.abspath(__file__))
-media_dir = path.join(base_dir, 'media')
-locale_dir = path.join(base_dir, 'locale')
+base_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+media_dir = os.path.join(base_dir, 'media')
+locale_dir = os.path.join(base_dir, 'locale')
 
 urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^$', views.index_page),
@@ -64,4 +65,7 @@ urlpatterns += [
     ),
     url(r'^render_no_template/$', views.render_no_template, name='render_no_template'),
     url(r'^test-setlang/(?P<parameter>[^/]+)/$', views.with_parameter, name='with_parameter'),
+    # Patterns to test the technical 404.
+    re_path(r'^regex-post/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.index_page, name='regex-post'),
+    path('path-post/<int:pk>/', views.index_page, name='path-post'),
 ]