When Does Django 5.2 LTS End? Support Until April 2028
The official support dates for Django's current long-term support release.
Aditya Challa1 min read
Summary
Django 5.2 LTS receives extended security support until April 2028, according to the Django project's official download page. Its mainstream support ended in December 2025, so it now gets security fixes and data-loss bug fixes only.
Django 5.2 key dates
- Release: April 2025
- End of mainstream support: December 2025
- End of extended support: April 2028
How Django LTS works
Every third feature release is a long-term support release with about three years of security fixes. Non-LTS releases such as 6.0 get roughly 16 months of support.
Upgrade planning
Django 6.0 is supported until April 2027. The next LTS should be 6.2, expected in 2027 (an estimate based on Django's release cadence). Many teams will move from 5.2 LTS directly to 6.2 LTS.
Related: /blog/when-does-python-3-11-reach-end-of-life
Related: /blog/is-python-3-14-free-threaded-by-default
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What I found running this
Facts in this draft were checked on 12 Oct 2026 against the primary sources listed in the body (official docs, release schedules or Google/YouTube help pages). No benchmarks or timings were run, so the post makes no performance or measurement claims; dates are quoted as published by the maintainers, and any estimate is labelled as such.
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