DRF is separate from django, despite the name. From what I understand, the author and maintainers have decided to keep it from being bound to the django release cycle and allow their own schedule of updates and releases.
FWIW, DRF is great, I work with it daily on services that average a cumulative total of around 2500 requests/minute, and a number of FE applications are implemented in react to consume the data. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/cecfe161-6e46-45d5-9af9-ce5823958d72%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

