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Django 5.2 release notes - UNDER DEVELOPMENT¶

Expected April 2025

Welcome to Django 5.2!

These release notes cover the new features, as well as some backwards incompatible changes you should be aware of when upgrading from Django 5.1 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 5.2 is designated as a long-term support release. It will receive security updates for at least three years after its release. Support for the previous LTS, Django 4.2, will end in April 2026.

Python compatibility¶

Django 5.2 supports Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, and 3.13. We highly recommend and only officially support the latest release of each series.

What’s new in Django 5.2¶

Minor features¶

`django.contrib.admin`¶

`django.contrib.admindocs`¶

`django.contrib.auth`¶

The default iteration count for the PBKDF2 password hasher is increased from 870,000 to 1,000,000.

`django.contrib.contenttypes`¶

`django.contrib.gis`¶

`django.contrib.messages`¶

`django.contrib.postgres`¶

`django.contrib.redirects`¶

`django.contrib.sessions`¶

`django.contrib.sitemaps`¶

`django.contrib.sites`¶

`django.contrib.staticfiles`¶

`django.contrib.syndication`¶

Asynchronous views¶

Cache¶

CSRF¶

Database backends¶

Decorators¶

Email¶

Error Reporting¶

File Storage¶

File Uploads¶

Forms¶

Generic Views¶

Internationalization¶

Logging¶

Management Commands¶

Migrations¶

Models¶

Requests and Responses¶

Security¶

Serialization¶

Signals¶

Templates¶

Tests¶

URLs¶

Utilities¶

Validators¶

Backwards incompatible changes in 5.2¶

Database backend API¶

This section describes changes that may be needed in third-party database backends.