Expected December 2025
Welcome to Django 6.0!
These release notes cover the new features, as well as some backwards incompatible changes you’ll want to be aware of when upgrading from Django 5.2 or earlier. We’ve begun the deprecation process for some features.
See the How to upgrade Django to a newer version guide if you’re updating an existing project.
Django 6.0 supports Python 3.12 and 3.13. We highly recommend and only officially support the latest release of each series.
The Django 5.2.x series is the last to support Python 3.10 and 3.11.
Following the release of Django 6.0, we suggest that third-party app authors
drop support for all versions of Django prior to 5.2. At that time, you should
be able to run your package’s tests using python -Wd so that deprecation
warnings appear. After making the deprecation warning fixes, your app should be
compatible with Django 6.0.
django.contrib.admin¶The Font Awesome Free icon set (version 6.7.2) is now used for the admin interface icons.
django.contrib.admindocs¶The new AdminSite.password_change_form attribute allows customizing
the form used in the admin site password change view.
django.contrib.auth¶The default iteration count for the PBKDF2 password hasher is increased from 1,000,000 to 1,200,000.
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django.contrib.gis¶The new GEOSGeometry.hasm property checks whether the geometry has
the M dimension.
The new Rotate database
function rotates a geometry by a specified angle around the origin or a
specified point.
The new BaseGeometryWidget.base_layer attribute allows specifying a
JavaScript map base layer, enabling customization of map tile providers.
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django.contrib.postgres¶Model fields, indexes, and constraints from django.contrib.postgres
now include system checks to verify that django.contrib.postgres is an
installed app.
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The startproject and startapp commands now create the
custom target directory if it doesn’t exist.
Squashed migrations can now themselves be squashed before being transitioned to normal migrations.
Migrations now support serialization of zoneinfo.ZoneInfo instances.
Serialization of deconstructible objects now supports keyword arguments with names that are not valid Python identifiers.
Constraints now implement a check()
method that is already registered with the check framework.
The new order_by argument for Aggregate allows
specifying the ordering of the elements in the result.
The new Aggregate.allow_order_by class attribute determines whether
the aggregate function allows passing an order_by keyword argument.
The new StringAgg aggregate returns the input
values concatenated into a string, separated by the delimiter string.
This aggregate was previously supported only for PostgreSQL.
The save() method now raises a specialized
Model.NotUpdated exception, when
a forced update results in no affected rows,
instead of a generic django.db.DatabaseError.
QuerySet.raw() now supports models with a
CompositePrimaryKey.
JSONField now supports
negative array indexing on SQLite.
The new AnyValue aggregate returns an arbitrary
value from the non-null input values. This is supported on SQLite, MySQL,
Oracle, and PostgreSQL 16+.
The new AsyncPaginator and
AsyncPage provide async implementations of
Paginator and
Page respectively.
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The new variable forloop.length is now available within a for
loop.
The querystring template tag now consistently prefixes the returned
query string with a ?, ensuring reliable link generation behavior.
The querystring template tag now accepts multiple positional
arguments, which must be mappings, such as QueryDict
or dict.
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This section describes changes that may be needed in third-party database backends.
BaseDatabaseCreation.create_test_db(serialize) is deprecated. Use
serialize_db_to_string() instead.
BaseDatabaseSchemaEditor and
PostgreSQL backends no longer use CASCADE when dropping a column.
Upstream support for MariaDB 10.5 ends in June 2025. Django 6.0 supports MariaDB 10.6 and higher.
Because Python 3.12 is now the minimum supported version for Django, any optional dependencies must also meet that requirement. The following versions of each library are the first to add or confirm compatibility with Python 3.12:
aiosmtpd 1.4.5
argon2-cffi 23.1.0
bcrypt 4.1.1
geoip2 4.8.0
Pillow 10.1.0
mysqlclient 2.2.1
numpy 1.26.0
PyYAML 6.0.2
psycopg 3.1.12
psycopg2 2.9.9
redis-py 5.1.0
selenium 4.23.0
sqlparse 0.5.0
tblib 3.0.0
The JSON serializer now writes a newline
at the end of the output, even without the indent option set.
The undocumented django.utils.http.parse_header_parameters() function is
refactored to use Python’s email.message.Message for parsing.
Input headers exceeding 10000 characters will now raise ValueError.
Widgets from django.contrib.gis.forms.widgets now render without
inline JavaScript in templates. If you have customized any geometry widgets
or their templates, you may need to update them to match the new layout.
BaseDatabaseCreation.create_test_db(serialize) is deprecated. Use
serialize_db_to_string() instead.
The PostgreSQL StringAgg class is deprecated in favor of the generally
available StringAgg class.
The PostgreSQL OrderableAggMixin is deprecated in favor of the
order_by attribute now available on the Aggregate class.
The default protocol in urlize and urlizetrunc will
change from HTTP to HTTPS in Django 7.0. Set the transitional setting
URLIZE_ASSUME_HTTPS to True to opt into assuming HTTPS during the
Django 6.x release cycle.
URLIZE_ASSUME_HTTPS transitional setting is deprecated.
Setting ADMINS or MANAGERS to a list of (name, address)
tuples is deprecated. Set to a list of email address strings instead. Django
never used the name portion. To include a name, format the address string as
'"Name" <address>' or use Python’s email.utils.formataddr().
Support for the orphans argument being larger than or equal to the
per_page argument of django.core.paginator.Paginator and
django.core.paginator.AsyncPaginator is deprecated.
Using a percent sign in a column alias or annotation is deprecated.
These features have reached the end of their deprecation cycle and are removed in Django 6.0.
See Features deprecated in 5.0 for details on these changes, including how to remove usage of these features.
Support for passing positional arguments to BaseConstraint is removed.
The DjangoDivFormRenderer and Jinja2DivFormRenderer transitional form
renderers are removed.
BaseDatabaseOperations.field_cast_sql() is removed.
request is required in the signature of ModelAdmin.lookup_allowed()
subclasses.
Support for calling format_html() without passing args or kwargs is
removed.
The default scheme for forms.URLField changed from "http" to
"https".
The FORMS_URLFIELD_ASSUME_HTTPS transitional setting is removed.
The django.db.models.sql.datastructures.Join no longer fallback to
get_joining_columns().
The get_joining_columns() method of ForeignObject and
ForeignObjectRel is removed.
The ForeignObject.get_reverse_joining_columns() method is removed.
Support for cx_Oracle is removed.
The ChoicesMeta alias to django.db.models.enums.ChoicesType is
removed.
The Prefetch.get_current_queryset() method is removed.
The get_prefetch_queryset() method of related managers and descriptors is
removed.
get_prefetcher() and prefetch_related_objects() no longer fallback to
get_prefetch_queryset().
See Features deprecated in 5.1 for details on these changes, including how to remove usage of these features.
django.urls.register_converter() no longer allows overriding existing
converters.
The ModelAdmin.log_deletion() and LogEntryManager.log_action()
methods are removed.
The undocumented django.utils.itercompat.is_iterable() function and the
django.utils.itercompat module is removed.
The django.contrib.gis.geoip2.GeoIP2.coords() method is removed.
The django.contrib.gis.geoip2.GeoIP2.open() method is removed.
Support for passing positional arguments to Model.save() and
Model.asave() is removed.
The setter for django.contrib.gis.gdal.OGRGeometry.coord_dim is removed.
The check keyword argument of CheckConstraint is removed.
The get_cache_name() method of FieldCacheMixin is removed.
The OS_OPEN_FLAGS attribute of
FileSystemStorage is removed.
Jun 20, 2025