Django 6.0 lands with cleaner APIs, faster paths, and deeper async reach

Django 6.0 arrives as a classic Django major: no fireworks, just meaningful modernization. What’s notable here isn’t a single marquee feature but a coherent sweep-removing long-deprecated APIs from the 5.x series, tightening the minimum Python baseline to current, and pushing more of the stack toward async awareness. Under the hood, core layers (views, middleware, and ORM call paths) continue the multi-release journey to run cleanly in both sync and async contexts, with fewer “gotchas” when mixing ASGI and WSGI. Typing coverage also improves, making IDEs and type checkers first-class citizens for teams that treat annotations as part of their engineering workflow.

The bigger picture: Django is doubling down on its proven model-incremental, predictable upgrades that keep long-lived projects healthy. Expect safer defaults, crisper deprecation cycles, and modest but real performance gains from more efficient query handling, caching hooks, and template/runtime tweaks. Worth noting: as usual for a .0, this release removes features previously marked for deprecation and drops support for end-of-life Python, so CI baselines and third-party pins may need a pass. For an ecosystem defined by stability, 6.0 is exactly the kind of progress that matters: less boilerplate, fewer footguns, and a framework that keeps pace with modern Python without asking teams to rewrite their mental model-or their codebase.