Django middleware for API versioning

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API versioning via middleware provides clean URL routing. I extract version from Accept header or URL prefix and set it on the request object. Views can check request.api_version to return appropriate responses. For breaking changes, I maintain separate serializer classes per version. Middleware is cleaner than versioning libraries for simple cases. I default to latest version for backwards compatibility. This pattern centralizes version logic and keeps view code focused on business logic. For complex APIs, DRF's built-in versioning is more feature-complete.