Wrong default value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD in the documentation

[Salman Mohammadi]

Hi everyone,

in the dev version of the documentation, we can see it correctly that the default value for DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD is: django.db.models.BigAutoField {1} but it is not the case in the docs versions of 5.2 {2} and 4.2 {3} which both have the default value which is mentioned in the dev version but the respected docs have not been updated and mentions the old default value which was 'django.db.models.AutoField'

• {1} ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#std-setting-DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD
• {2} ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.2/ref/settings/#std-setting-DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD
• {3} ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/ref/settings/#std-setting-DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD

[Tim Graham]

The documentation is correct (the dev documentation changed in #36564). Your confusion may be that in older versions, the default startproject template had DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD = 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'. That's different from the default value in django.conf.global_settings.

[Salman Mohammadi]

Oh, thank you for the explanation.