Django 5.2 Released

Been using Django in production since 2008, and so happy with my choice. Absolutely amazing being able to keep the same knowledge and workflow for my whole career so far, and still have a modern, maintained piece of software as a base. The Django Admin still makes my life better all these years later.<p>Props to the Fellows who are keeping these releases running on time and getting better every year. Boring software FTW!

&gt; All models are automatically imported in the shell by default.<p>This is a huge usability improvement! We end up having to install shell plus in the dev environment on every project I&#x27;ve worked on, and it&#x27;s not always available to us in production environments for debugging. Having models import automatically will be a big help.

I just started using Django a few weeks ago, but it&#x27;s so much more flexible than Supabase&#x2F;Firebase. I feel like I have much better control now.

In 2025, how much does it still make sense to go the Django way vs FastAPI ? Looking for well founded opinions. Not controversy.

i remember attempting to use django for building an SPA and implementing the rest api was not at all batteries included and came with many gotchas.