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At the Internet, on March 28th, 2025, we are happy to announce the release of Django REST framework 3.16.

The latest release now fully supports Django 5.1 and the upcoming 5.2 LTS as well as Python 3.13.

The current minimum versions of Django is now 4.2 and Python 3.9.

The new `LoginRequiredMiddleware` introduced by Django 5.1 can now be used alongside Django REST Framework, however it is not honored for API views as an equivalent behaviour can be configured via `DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES`. See [our dedicated section](../api-guide/authentication.md#django-51-loginrequiredmiddleware) in the docs for more information.

The generation of validators for [UniqueConstraint](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/models/constraints/#uniqueconstraint) has been improved to support better nullable fields and constraints with conditions.

There are a number of fixes and minor improvements in this release, ranging from documentation, internal infrastructure (typing, testing, requirements, deprecation, etc.), security and overall behaviour.

See the [release notes](release-notes.md) page for a complete listing.

**Date**: 28th March 2025

This release is considered a significant release to improve upstream support with Django and Python. Some of these may change the behaviour of existing features and pre-existing behaviour. Specifically, some fixes were added to around the support of `UniqueConstraint` with nullable fields which will improve built-in serializer validation.

* Add official support for Django 5.1 and its new `LoginRequiredMiddleware` in [#9514](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9514) and [#9657](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9657)

* Add official Django 5.2a1 support in [#9634](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9634)

* Add support for Python 3.13 in [#9527](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9527) and [#9556](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9556)

* Support Django 2.1+ test client JSON data automatically serialized in [#6511](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/6511) and fix a regression in [#9615](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9615)

* Fix unique together validator to respect condition's fields from `UniqueConstraint` in [#9360](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9360)

* Fix raising on nullable fields part of `UniqueConstraint` in [#9531](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9531)

* Fix `unique_together` validation with source in [#9482](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9482)

* Added protections to `AttributeError` raised within properties in [#9455](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9455)

* Fix `get_template_context` to handle also lists in [#9467](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9467)

* Fix "Converter is already registered" deprecation warning. in [#9512](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9512)

* Fix noisy warning and accept integers as min/max values of `DecimalField` in [#9515](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9515)

* Fix usages of `open()` in `setup.py` in [#9661](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9661)

* Add some missing Chinese translations in [#9505](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9505)

* Fix spelling mistakes in Farsi language were corrected in [#9521](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9521)

* Fixing and adding missing Brazilian Portuguese translations in [#9535](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9535)

* Remove support for Python 3.8 in [#9670](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9670)

* Remove long deprecated code from request wrapper in [#9441](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9441)

* Remove deprecated `AutoSchema._get_reference` method in [#9525](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9525)

* Provide tests for hashing of `OperandHolder` in [#9437](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9437)

* Update documentation: Add `adrf` third party package in [#9198](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9198)

* Update tutorials links in Community contributions docs in [#9476](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9476)

* Fix usage of deprecated Django function in example from docs in [#9509](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9509)

* Move path converter docs into a separate section in [#9524](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9524)

* Add test covering update view without `queryset` attribute in [#9528](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9528)

* Fix Transifex link in [#9541](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9541)

* Fix example `httpie` call in docs in [#9543](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9543)

* Fix example for serializer field with choices in docs in [#9563](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9563)

* Remove extra `<>` in validators example in [#9590](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9590)

* Update `strftime` link in the docs in [#9624](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9624)

* Switch to codecov GHA in [#9618](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9618)

* Add note regarding availability of the `action` attribute in 'Introspecting ViewSet actions' docs section in [#9633](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9633)

* Improved description of allowed throttling rates in documentation in [#9640](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9640)

* Add `rest-framework-gm2m-relations` package to the list of 3rd party libraries in [#9063](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9063)

* Fix a number of typos in the test suite in the docs in [#9662](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9662)

* Add `django-pyoidc` as a third party authentication library in [#9667](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9667)

* [`@maerteijn`](https://github.com/maerteijn) made their first contribution in [#9198](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9198)

* [`@FraCata00`](https://github.com/FraCata00) made their first contribution in [#9444](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9444)

* [`@AlvaroVega`](https://github.com/AlvaroVega) made their first contribution in [#9451](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9451)

* [`@james`](https://github.com/james)-mchugh made their first contribution in [#9455](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9455)

* [`@ifeanyidavid`](https://github.com/ifeanyidavid) made their first contribution in [#9479](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9479)

* [`@p`](https://github.com/p)-schlickmann made their first contribution in [#9480](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9480)

* [`@akkuman`](https://github.com/akkuman) made their first contribution in [#9505](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9505)

* [`@rafaelgramoschi`](https://github.com/rafaelgramoschi) made their first contribution in [#9509](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9509)

* [`@Sinaatkd`](https://github.com/Sinaatkd) made their first contribution in [#9521](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9521)

* [`@gtkacz`](https://github.com/gtkacz) made their first contribution in [#9535](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9535)

* [`@sliverc`](https://github.com/sliverc) made their first contribution in [#9556](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9556)

* [`@gabrielromagnoli1987`](https://github.com/gabrielromagnoli1987) made their first contribution in [#9543](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9543)

* [`@cheehong1030`](https://github.com/cheehong1030) made their first contribution in [#9563](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9563)

* [`@amansharma612`](https://github.com/amansharma612) made their first contribution in [#9590](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9590)

* [`@Gluroda`](https://github.com/Gluroda) made their first contribution in [#9616](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9616)

* [`@deepakangadi`](https://github.com/deepakangadi) made their first contribution in [#9624](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9624)

* [`@EXG1O`](https://github.com/EXG1O) made their first contribution in [#9633](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9633)

* [`@decadenza`](https://github.com/decadenza) made their first contribution in [#9640](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9640)

* [`@mojtabaakbari221b`](https://github.com/mojtabaakbari221b) made their first contribution in [#9063](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9063)

* [`@mikemanger`](https://github.com/mikemanger) made their first contribution in [#9661](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9661)

* [`@gbip`](https://github.com/gbip) made their first contribution in [#9667](https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/9667)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/compare/3.15.2...3.16.0

- '3.16 Announcement': 'community/3.16-announcement.md'

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