Release | February 22, 2026

django CMS 5.0.6 Released – Maintenance Update for our current LTS Version

We’re happy to announce the release of django CMS 5.0.6, a focused bug fix and compatibility release that improves stability, compatibility, and overall reliability.

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This update does not introduce new features. Instead, it resolves several issues affecting placeholder handling, middleware behavior, permissions, migrations, and editing workflows.

What’s Included

In this release, we’ve fixed:

  • Copying failures when target placeholders were missing
  • Fallback handling when scanning includes for placeholders
  • ApphookReloadMiddleware not correctly handling new language variants
  • UX inconsistencies for external placeholders (such as static aliases)
  • GET parameters not being preserved when switching between preview and edit mode
  • get_permissions errors when global permissions were missing
  • Migration failures with django-treebeard >= 5.0.3
  • Issues in the make-changelog script

For more info, see the release notes.

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