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Django 6.1 release notes - UNDER DEVELOPMENT¶

Expected August 2026

Welcome to Django 6.1!

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 6.0 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.

Python compatibility¶

Django 6.1 supports Python 3.12, 3.13, and 3.14. We highly recommend, and only officially support, the latest release of each series.

What’s new in Django 6.1¶

Minor features¶

`django.contrib.admin`¶

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`django.contrib.admindocs`¶

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`django.contrib.auth`¶

The default iteration count for the PBKDF2 password hasher is increased from 1,200,000 to 1,500,000.

`django.contrib.contenttypes`¶

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`django.contrib.gis`¶

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`django.contrib.messages`¶

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`django.contrib.postgres`¶

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`django.contrib.redirects`¶

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`django.contrib.sessions`¶

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`django.contrib.sitemaps`¶

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`django.contrib.sites`¶

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`django.contrib.staticfiles`¶

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`django.contrib.syndication`¶

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Asynchronous views¶

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Cache¶

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CSP¶

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CSRF¶

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Decorators¶

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Email¶

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Error Reporting¶

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File Storage¶

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File Uploads¶

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Forms¶

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Generic Views¶

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Internationalization¶

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Logging¶

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Management Commands¶

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Migrations¶

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Models¶

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Pagination¶

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Requests and Responses¶

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Security¶

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Serialization¶

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Signals¶

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Tasks¶

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Templates¶

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Tests¶

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URLs¶

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Utilities¶

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Validators¶

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Backwards incompatible changes in 6.1¶

Database backend API¶

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

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Miscellaneous¶

GenericForeignKey now uses a separate descriptor class: the private GenericForeignKeyDescriptor.

Features deprecated in 6.1¶

Miscellaneous¶

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Features removed in 6.1¶

These features have reached the end of their deprecation cycle and are removed in Django 6.1.

See Features deprecated in 5.2 for details on these changes, including how to remove usage of these features.

The all parameter for the django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.find() function is removed in favor of the find_all parameter.
Fallbacks to request.user and request.auser() when user is None in django.contrib.auth.login() and django.contrib.auth.alogin(), respectively, are removed.
The ordering keyword parameter of the PostgreSQL specific aggregation functions django.contrib.postgres.aggregates.ArrayAgg, django.contrib.postgres.aggregates.JSONBAgg, and django.contrib.postgres.aggregates.StringAgg are removed in favor of the order_by parameter.
Support for subclasses of RemoteUserMiddleware that override process_request() without overriding aprocess_request() is removed.

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