Django 6.1 End of Life Date
Django 6.1 end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation.
Django 6.1 was released on August 5, 2026 and support is scheduled to end on December 31, 2027 — a planned supported lifespan of 1 year and 5 months, in line with the 1 year and 5 months median for Django releases. It is not an LTS release; Django reserves longer patch windows for its LTS versions. Its most recent patch is 6.1, published August 5, 2026.
What does Django 6.1 end of life mean?
When Django 6.1 reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: Most vulnerability scanners check for known CVEs but do not flag the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Running Django 6.1 past its EOL date creates a permanently growing attack surface that standard security tooling will not surface.
Migrate to Django 6.1 or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.