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Django 5.1 release notes - UNDER DEVELOPMENT
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*Expected August 2024*

Welcome to Django 5.1!

These release notes cover the :ref:`new features <whats-new-5.1>`, as well as
some :ref:`backwards incompatible changes <backwards-incompatible-5.1>` you'll
want to be aware of when upgrading from Django 5.0 or earlier. We've
:ref:`begun the deprecation process for some features
<deprecated-features-5.1>`.

See the :doc:`/howto/upgrade-version` guide if you're updating an existing
project.

Python compatibility
====================

Django 5.1 supports Python 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12. We **highly recommend** and
only officially support the latest release of each series.

.. _whats-new-5.1:

What's new in Django 5.1
========================

Minor features
--------------

:mod:`django.contrib.admin`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* :attr:`.ModelAdmin.list_display` now supports using ``__`` lookups to list
  fields from related models.

:mod:`django.contrib.admindocs`
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:mod:`django.contrib.auth`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* The default iteration count for the PBKDF2 password hasher is increased from
  720,000 to 870,000.

* :class:`~django.contrib.auth.forms.BaseUserCreationForm` and
  :class:`~django.contrib.auth.forms.AdminPasswordChangeForm` now support
  disabling password-based authentication by setting an unusable password on
  form save. This is now available in the admin when visiting the user creation
  and password change pages.

* :func:`~.django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required`,
  :func:`~.django.contrib.auth.decorators.permission_required`, and
  :func:`~.django.contrib.auth.decorators.user_passes_test` decorators now
  support wrapping asynchronous view functions.

* ``ReadOnlyPasswordHashWidget`` now includes a button to reset the user's
  password, which replaces the link previously embedded in the
  ``ReadOnlyPasswordHashField``'s help text, improving the overall
  accessibility of the
  :class:`~django.contrib.auth.forms.UserChangeForm`.

:mod:`django.contrib.contenttypes`
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:mod:`django.contrib.gis`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* :class:`~django.contrib.gis.db.models.functions.BoundingCircle` is now
  supported on SpatiaLite 5.1+.

* :class:`~django.contrib.gis.db.models.Collect` is now supported on MySQL
  8.0.24+.

* :class:`~django.contrib.gis.geoip2.GeoIP2` now allows querying using
  :class:`ipaddress.IPv4Address` or :class:`ipaddress.IPv6Address` objects.

* :meth:`.GeoIP2.country` now exposes the ``continent_code``,
  ``continent_name``, and ``is_in_european_union`` values.

* :meth:`.GeoIP2.city` now exposes the ``accuracy_radius`` and ``region_name``
  values. In addition the ``dma_code`` and ``region`` values are now exposed as
  ``metro_code`` and ``region_code``, but the previous keys are also retained
  for backward compatibility.

* :class:`~django.contrib.gis.measure.Area` now supports the ``ha`` unit.

* The new :attr:`.OGRGeometry.is_3d` attribute allows checking if a geometry
  has a ``Z`` coordinate dimension.

* The new :meth:`.OGRGeometry.set_3d` method allows addition and removal of the
  ``Z`` coordinate dimension.

* :class:`~django.contrib.gis.gdal.OGRGeometry`,
  :class:`~django.contrib.gis.gdal.Point`,
  :class:`~django.contrib.gis.gdal.LineString`,
  :class:`~django.contrib.gis.gdal.Polygon`, and
  :class:`~django.contrib.gis.gdal.GeometryCollection` and its subclasses now
  support measured geometries via the new :attr:`.OGRGeometry.is_measured` and
  ``m`` properties, and the :meth:`.OGRGeometry.set_measured` method.

* :attr:`.OGRGeometry.centroid` is now available on all supported geometry
  types.

* :class:`FromWKB() <django.contrib.gis.db.models.functions.FromWKB>` and
  :class:`FromWKT() <django.contrib.gis.db.models.functions.FromWKT>` functions
  now support the optional ``srid`` argument (except for Oracle where it is
  ignored).

:mod:`django.contrib.messages`
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:mod:`django.contrib.postgres`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* :class:`~django.contrib.postgres.indexes.BTreeIndex` now supports the
  ``deduplicate_items`` parameter.

:mod:`django.contrib.redirects`
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:mod:`django.contrib.sessions`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* :class:`django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db.SessionStore` now handles
  exceptions when storing session information in the cache, logging proper
  error messages with their traceback via the newly added
  :ref:`sessions logger <django-contrib-sessions-logger>`.

* :class:`django.contrib.sessions.backends.base.SessionBase` and all built-in
  session engines now provide async API. The new asynchronous methods all have
  ``a`` prefixed names, e.g. ``aget()``, ``akeys()``, or ``acycle_key()``.

:mod:`django.contrib.sitemaps`
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:mod:`django.contrib.sites`
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:mod:`django.contrib.staticfiles`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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:mod:`django.contrib.syndication`
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Asynchronous views
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Cache
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CSRF
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Database backends
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* ``"init_command"`` option is now supported in :setting:`OPTIONS` on SQLite
  to allow specifying :ref:`pragma options <sqlite-init-command>` to set upon
  connection.

* ``"transaction_mode"`` option is now supported in :setting:`OPTIONS` on
  SQLite to allow specifying the :ref:`sqlite-transaction-behavior`.

* ``"pool"`` option is now supported in :setting:`OPTIONS` on PostgreSQL to
  allow using :ref:`connection pools <postgresql-pool>`.

Decorators
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Email
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Error Reporting
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* In order to improve accessibility, the technical 404 and 500 error pages now
  use HTML landmark elements for the header, footer, and main content areas.

File Storage
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File Uploads
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Forms
~~~~~

* In order to improve accessibility and enable screen readers to associate
  fieldsets with their help text, the form fieldset now includes the
  ``aria-describedby`` HTML attribute.

Generic Views
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Internationalization
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Logging
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Management Commands
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* :djadmin:`makemigrations` command now displays meaningful symbols for each
  operation to highlight :class:`operation categories
  <django.db.migrations.operations.base.OperationCategory>`.

Migrations
~~~~~~~~~~

* The new ``Operation.category`` attribute allows specifying an
  :class:`operation category
  <django.db.migrations.operations.base.OperationCategory>` used by the
  :djadmin:`makemigrations` to display a meaningful symbol for the operation.

Models
~~~~~~

* :meth:`.QuerySet.explain` now supports the ``generic_plan`` option on
  PostgreSQL 16+.

* :class:`~django.db.models.expressions.RowRange` now accepts positive integers
  for the ``start`` argument and negative integers for the ``end`` argument.

* The new ``exclusion`` argument of
  :class:`~django.db.models.expressions.RowRange` and
  :class:`~django.db.models.expressions.ValueRange` allows excluding rows,
  groups, and ties from the window frames.

* :meth:`.QuerySet.order_by` now supports ordering by annotation transforms
  such as ``JSONObject`` keys and ``ArrayAgg`` indices.

* :class:`F() <django.db.models.F>` and :class:`OuterRef()
  <django.db.models.OuterRef>` expressions that output
  :class:`~django.db.models.CharField`, :class:`~django.db.models.EmailField`,
  :class:`~django.db.models.SlugField`, :class:`~django.db.models.URLField`,
  :class:`~django.db.models.TextField`, or
  :class:`~django.contrib.postgres.fields.ArrayField` can now be :ref:`sliced
  <slicing-using-f>`.

* The new ``from_queryset`` argument of :meth:`.Model.refresh_from_db` and
  :meth:`.Model.arefresh_from_db`  allows customizing the queryset used to
  reload a model's value. This can be used to lock the row before reloading or
  to select related objects.

* The new :attr:`.Expression.constraint_validation_compatible` attribute allows
  specifying that the expression should be ignored during a constraint
  validation.

Requests and Responses
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Security
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Serialization
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Signals
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Templates
~~~~~~~~~

* Custom tags may now set extra data on the ``Parser`` object that will later
  be made available on the ``Template`` instance. Such data may be used, for
  example, by the template loader, or other template clients.

* The new :ttag:`{% query_string %} <query_string>` template tag allows
  changing a :class:`~django.http.QueryDict` instance for use in links, for
  example, to generate a link to the next page while keeping any filtering
  options in place.

* :ref:`Template engines <field-checking>` now implement a ``check()`` method
  that is already registered with the check framework.

Tests
~~~~~

* :meth:`~django.test.SimpleTestCase.assertContains`,
  :meth:`~django.test.SimpleTestCase.assertNotContains`, and
  :meth:`~django.test.SimpleTestCase.assertInHTML` assertions now add haystacks
  to assertion error messages.

* The :class:`~django.test.RequestFactory`,
  :class:`~django.test.AsyncRequestFactory`, :class:`~django.test.Client`, and
  :class:`~django.test.AsyncClient` classes now support the ``query_params``
  parameter, which accepts a dictionary of query string keys and values. This
  allows setting query strings on any HTTP methods more easily.

  .. code-block:: python

     self.client.post("/items/1", query_params={"action": "delete"})
     await self.async_client.post("/items/1", query_params={"action": "delete"})

* The new :meth:`.SimpleTestCase.assertNotInHTML` assertion allows testing that
  an HTML fragment is not contained in the given HTML haystack.

* In order to enforce test isolation, database connections inside threads are
  no longer allowed in :class:`~django.test.SimpleTestCase`.

URLs
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Utilities
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Validators
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.. _backwards-incompatible-5.1:

Backwards incompatible changes in 5.1
=====================================

Database backend API
--------------------

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

* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.gis`
-------------------------

* Support for PostGIS 2.5 is removed.

* Support for PROJ < 6 is removed.

* Support for GDAL 2.4 is removed.

* :class:`~django.contrib.gis.geoip2.GeoIP2` no longer opens both city and
  country databases when a directory path is provided, preferring the city
  database, if it is available. The country database is a subset of the city
  database and both are not typically needed. If you require use of the country
  database when in the same directory as the city database, explicitly pass the
  country database path to the constructor.

Dropped support for MariaDB 10.4
--------------------------------

Upstream support for MariaDB 10.4 ends in June 2024. Django 5.1 supports
MariaDB 10.5 and higher.

Dropped support for PostgreSQL 12
---------------------------------

Upstream support for PostgreSQL 12 ends in November 2024. Django 5.1 supports
PostgreSQL 13 and higher.

Miscellaneous
-------------

* In order to improve accessibility, the admin's changelist filter is now
  rendered in a ``<nav>`` tag instead of a ``<div>``.

* In order to improve accessibility, the admin's footer is now rendered in
  a ``<footer>`` tag instead of a ``<div>``, and also moved below the
  ``<div id="main">`` element.

* :meth:`.SimpleTestCase.assertURLEqual` and
  :meth:`~django.test.SimpleTestCase.assertInHTML` now add ``": "`` to the
  ``msg_prefix``. This is consistent with the behavior of other assertions.

* ``django.utils.text.Truncator`` used by :tfilter:`truncatechars_html` and
  :tfilter:`truncatewords_html` template filters now uses
  :py:class:`html.parser.HTMLParser` subclasses. This results in a more robust
  and faster operation, but there may be small differences in the output.

* The undocumented ``django.urls.converters.get_converter()`` function is
  removed.

* The minimum supported version of SQLite is increased from 3.27.0 to 3.31.0.

.. _deprecated-features-5.1:

Features deprecated in 5.1
==========================

Miscellaneous
-------------

* The ``ModelAdmin.log_deletion()`` and ``LogEntryManager.log_action()``
  methods are deprecated. Subclasses should implement
  ``ModelAdmin.log_deletions()`` and  ``LogEntryManager.log_actions()``
  instead.

* The undocumented ``django.utils.itercompat.is_iterable()`` function and the
  ``django.utils.itercompat`` module are deprecated. Use
  ``isinstance(..., collections.abc.Iterable)`` instead.

* The ``django.contrib.gis.geoip2.GeoIP2.coords()`` method is deprecated. Use
  ``django.contrib.gis.geoip2.GeoIP2.lon_lat()`` instead.

* The ``django.contrib.gis.geoip2.GeoIP2.open()`` method is deprecated. Use the
  :class:`~django.contrib.gis.geoip2.GeoIP2` constructor instead.

* Passing positional arguments to :meth:`.Model.save` and :meth:`.Model.asave`
  is deprecated in favor of keyword-only arguments.

* Setting ``django.contrib.gis.gdal.OGRGeometry.coord_dim`` is deprecated. Use
  :meth:`~django.contrib.gis.gdal.OGRGeometry.set_3d` instead.

* Overriding existing converters with ``django.urls.register_converter()`` is
  deprecated.

* The ``check`` keyword argument of ``CheckConstraint`` is deprecated in favor
  of ``condition``.

Features removed in 5.1
=======================

These features have reached the end of their deprecation cycle and are removed
in Django 5.1.

See :ref:`deprecated-features-4.2` for details on these changes, including how
to remove usage of these features.

* The ``BaseUserManager.make_random_password()`` method is removed.

* The model's ``Meta.index_together`` option is removed.

* The ``length_is`` template filter is removed.

* The ``django.contrib.auth.hashers.SHA1PasswordHasher``,
  ``django.contrib.auth.hashers.UnsaltedSHA1PasswordHasher``, and
  ``django.contrib.auth.hashers.UnsaltedMD5PasswordHasher`` are removed.

* The model ``django.contrib.postgres.fields.CICharField``,
  ``django.contrib.postgres.fields.CIEmailField``, and
  ``django.contrib.postgres.fields.CITextField`` are removed, except for
  support in historical migrations.

* The ``django.contrib.postgres.fields.CIText`` mixin is removed.

* The ``map_width`` and ``map_height`` attributes of ``BaseGeometryWidget`` are
  removed.

* The ``SimpleTestCase.assertFormsetError()`` method is removed.

* The ``TransactionTestCase.assertQuerysetEqual()`` method is removed.

* Support for passing encoded JSON string literals to ``JSONField`` and
  associated lookups and expressions is removed.

* Support for passing positional arguments to ``Signer`` and
  ``TimestampSigner`` is removed.

* The ``DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE`` and ``STATICFILES_STORAGE`` settings is removed.

* The ``django.core.files.storage.get_storage_class()`` function is removed.
