Twenty years of Django releases
On November 16th 2005, Django co-creator Adrian Holovaty announced the first ever Django release, Django 0.90. Twenty years later, today here we are shipping the first release candidate of Django 6.0 🚀.
Since we’re celebrating Django’s 20th birthday this year, here are a few release-related numbers that represent Django’s history:
- 447 releases over 20 years. That’s about 22 per year on average. We’re at 38 so far for 2025. Fun fact: 33 of those releases predate PyPI, and were published via the Django website only!
- 131 security vulnerabilities addressed in those Django releases. Our security issues archive is a testament to our stellar track-record.
- 262,203 releases of Django-related packages. Django’s community ecosystem is gigantic. There’s tens of releases of Django packages per day as of 2025. There were 52 just today. With the caveat this depends a lot on what you classify as a "Django" package.
This is what decades’ worth of a stable framework looks like. Expect more gradual improvements and bug fixes over the next twenty years’ worth of releases. And if you like this kind of data, check out the State of Django 2025 report by JetBrains, with lots of statistics on our ecosystem (and there’s a few hours left on their Get PyCharm Pro with 30 % Off & Support Django offer).
Support Django
If you or your employer counts on Django’s 20 years of stability, consider whether you can support the project via donations to our non-profit Django Software Foundation.
- ⚠️ today only - Get PyCharm Pro for 30% off - all the revenue goes to our Foundation.
- Donate on the Django website
- Donate on GitHub sponsors
- Check out how to become a Corporate Member
Once you’ve done it, post with #DjangoBirthday and tag us on Mastodon / on Bluesky / on X / on LinkedIn so we can say thank you!
Of our US $300,000.00 goal for 2025, as of November 19th, 2025, we are at:
- 58.7% funded
- $176,098.60 donated
