The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 6.1.

The release notes offer a harmonious mélange of new features and usability improvements. A few highlights are:

• Model field fetch modes for configuring on-demand fetching behavior

• Database-level delete options for ForeignKey.on_delete

• Dictionary-based email settings

You can get Django 6.1 from our downloads page or from the Python Package Index.

The PGP key ID used for this release is Jacob Walls: 131403F4D16D8DC7

With the release of Django 6.1, Django 6.0 has reached the end of mainstream support. The final minor bug fix release, 6.0.8, which was also a security release, was issued yesterday, Aug. 4, 2026. Django 6.0 will receive security and data loss fixes until April 2027. All users are encouraged to upgrade before then to continue receiving fixes for security issues.

See the downloads page for a table of supported versions and the future release schedule.