diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index bc8367d5..409462a0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ Changelog
 
 (Unreleased)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+5.0.0 (2023-10-24)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 * **Backwards icompatible:** Rename the (``content_type``, ``object_id``) index on ``TaggedItem``.
   It is very unlikely for this to affect your code itself, and a migration will rename the index. This should not cause any downtime according to my research (Postgres does not lock the table for index renames, and Oracle holds a tiny lock to do it, and the change is only to the metadata, so is not dependent on table size).
 
diff --git a/taggit/__init__.py b/taggit/__init__.py
index d532c2b5..964ed5b8 100644
--- a/taggit/__init__.py
+++ b/taggit/__init__.py
@@ -1,11 +1,2 @@
-try:
-    import django
-except ImportError:
-    # setup.py and docs do not have Django installed.
-    django = None
-
-VERSION = (4, 0, 0)
+VERSION = (5, 0, 0)
 __version__ = ".".join(str(i) for i in VERSION)
-
-if django and django.VERSION < (3, 2):
-    default_app_config = "taggit.apps.TaggitAppConfig"
diff --git a/taggit/managers.py b/taggit/managers.py
index 90a24a3d..4d7f0140 100644
--- a/taggit/managers.py
+++ b/taggit/managers.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import uuid
 from operator import attrgetter
 
-import django
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib.contenttypes.fields import GenericRelation
 from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
@@ -610,7 +609,7 @@ def _get_mm_case_path_info(self, direct=False, filtered_relation=None):
         pathinfos = []
         linkfield1 = self.through._meta.get_field("content_object")
         linkfield2 = self.through._meta.get_field(self.m2m_reverse_field_name())
-        if django.VERSION >= (4, 1) and not filtered_relation:
+        if not filtered_relation:
             # Django >= 4.1 provides cached path_infos and reverse_path_infos properties
             # to use in preference to get_path_info / get_reverse_path_info when not
             # passing a filtered_relation
@@ -656,14 +655,14 @@ def _get_gfk_case_path_info(self, direct=False, filtered_relation=None):
                     filtered_relation,
                 )
             ]
-            if django.VERSION >= (4, 1) and not filtered_relation:
+            if not filtered_relation:
                 join2infos = linkfield.path_infos
             else:
                 join2infos = linkfield.get_path_info(
                     filtered_relation=filtered_relation
                 )
         else:
-            if django.VERSION >= (4, 1) and not filtered_relation:
+            if not filtered_relation:
                 join1infos = linkfield.reverse_path_infos
             else:
                 join1infos = linkfield.get_reverse_path_info(
@@ -736,7 +735,7 @@ def get_joining_fields(self, reverse_join=False):
                 ),
             )
 
-    def _get_extra_restriction(self, alias, related_alias):
+    def get_extra_restriction(self, alias, related_alias):
         extra_col = self.through._meta.get_field("content_type").column
         content_type_ids = [
             ContentType.objects.get_for_model(subclass).pk
@@ -744,18 +743,6 @@ def _get_extra_restriction(self, alias, related_alias):
         ]
         return ExtraJoinRestriction(related_alias, extra_col, content_type_ids)
 
-    def _get_extra_restriction_legacy(self, where_class, alias, related_alias):
-        # this is a shim to maintain compatibility with django < 4.0
-        return self._get_extra_restriction(alias, related_alias)
-
-    # this is required to handle a change in Django 4.0
-    # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/4.0/#miscellaneous
-    # the signature of the (private) function was changed
-    if django.VERSION < (4, 0):
-        get_extra_restriction = _get_extra_restriction_legacy
-    else:
-        get_extra_restriction = _get_extra_restriction
-
     def get_reverse_joining_columns(self):
         # RemovedInDjango60Warning
         # https://github.com/django/django/commit/8b1ff0da4b162e87edebd94e61f2cd153e9e159d