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title: "Django 6.1.1 release notes"
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# Django 6.1.1 release notes

*September 2, 2026*

Django 6.1.1 fixes one crash in Django 5.2 and several bugs in 6.1.

## Bugfixes

- Fixed a crash in Django 5.2 when combining [`distinct(*fields)`](/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#django.db.models.query.QuerySet.distinct) with `order_by()` and `values()` and using two
  lookup paths resolving to the same column ([#37222](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37222)).
- Fixed a regression in Django 6.1 where the deprecation of double-dot variable
  lookups incorrectly applied to string and translated template literals
  containing two consecutive dots, such as `{{ "a..b" }}` ([#37257](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37257)).
- Fixed a regression in Django 6.1 where [`ModelAdmin.list_display`](/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.list_display)
  entries that traverse multiple relations using `__` could crash or display
  incorrect values ([#37270](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37270)).
- Fixed a bug in Django 6.1 where the `fields.E323` system check did not
  detect mixed `on_delete` variants for auto-created intermediate models for
  `ManyToManyField`s ([#37254](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37254)).
- Fixed a regression in Django 6.1 where custom querysets used with
  [`Prefetch`](/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#django.db.models.Prefetch) for forward foreign key or reverse
  one-to-one relationships were not routed using the parent queryset’s
  database ([#37300](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37300)).
- Fixed a regression in Django 6.1 where HTML-safe strings, such as those
  created with [`mark_safe()`](/en/dev/ref/utils/#django.utils.safestring.mark_safe), used as form media
  assets were treated as asset paths rather than being rendered verbatim
  ([#37262](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37262)).
- Fixed a regression in Django 6.1 that caused `AlterField` operations that
  changed only the Python-level `on_delete` option of `ForeignKey` or
  `OneToOneField` fields to perform unnecessary schema changes
  ([#37260](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37260)).
- Fixed a bug in Django 6.1 where [`DecimalField`](/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.DecimalField)
  without `max_digits` and `decimal_places` caused a crash when retrieving
  values on SQLite ([#37275](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37275)).
- Fixed a regression in Django 6.1 that caused a crash when iterating a
  `QuerySet` of a model overriding `Model.from_db()` without the new
  `fetch_mode` keyword argument. Such overrides now work again, but are
  deprecated and should be updated to accept `fetch_mode` ([#37259](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37259)).
- Fixed a regression in Django 6.1 where an admin changelist search crashed
  when a `search_fields` entry used an `__exact` lookup on a field with
  `choices`, and where any search term matched all rows with a `True`
  value when an `__exact` lookup was used on a `BooleanField`
  ([#37263](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37263)).
- Fixed a regression in Django 6.1 that caused `__in` lookups on annotations
  to erroneously return empty querysets and `__range` lookups to crash when
  passed an iterator ([#37311](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37311)).
- Fixed a bug in Django 6.1 where [`QuerySet.in_bulk()`](/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#django.db.models.query.QuerySet.in_bulk) chained after
  [`QuerySet.values()`](/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#django.db.models.query.QuerySet.values) or [`QuerySet.values_list()`](/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#django.db.models.query.QuerySet.values_list) could drop selected
  annotations or produce incorrect mapping keys ([#37312](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37312)).