# Django 5.2 release - status and next steps

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**Category:** Pre-Releases\
**Tags:** 5-2\
**Created:** [December 10, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-5-2-release-status-and-next-steps/37131 "2024-12-10T14:49:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-5-2-release-status-and-next-steps/37131/4 "2025-03-19T11:41:56Z")

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Today, we released Django 5.2 release candidate 1: [Django 5.2 release candidate 1 released | Weblog | Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/mar/19/django-52-rc1/)

This marks the string freeze for Django 5.2 and [our call for translators to update translations](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-5-2-string-freeze-is-in-effect-translations-needed/39693). 🌍

Django 5.2 is due to be released in 2 weeks time, April 2nd. 👍

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