Django 5.0.5 release notes

May 6, 2024

Django 5.0.5 fixes several bugs in 5.0.4.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug in Django 5.0 that caused a crash of Model.save() when creating an instance of a model with a GeneratedField and providing a primary key (#35350).

• Fixed a compatibility issue encountered in Python 3.11.9+ and 3.12.3+ when validating email max line lengths with content decoded using the surrogateescape error handling scheme (#35361).

• Fixed a bug in Django 5.0 that caused a crash when applying migrations including alterations to GeneratedField such as setting db_index=True on SQLite (#35373).

• Allowed importing aprefetch_related_objects from django.db.models (#35392).

• Fixed a bug in Django 5.0 that caused a migration crash when a GeneratedField was added before any of the referenced fields from its expression definition (#35359).

• Fixed a bug in Django 5.0 that caused a migration crash when altering a GeneratedField referencing a renamed field (#35422).

• Fixed a bug in Django 5.0 where the querysets argument of GenericPrefetch was not required (#35426).