Using test_plus APITestCase with django 5.2 raises the following error if I try to use self.client.force_authenticate:
AttributeError: 'Client' object has no attribute 'force_authenticate'

This seems to be because the new django 5.2 version seems to have changed how the client_class is read, see here.

As I understand, APITestCase should go from this:

class APITestCase(TestCase):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.client_class = get_api_client()
        super(APITestCase, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

To this:

class APITestCase(TestCase):
    client_class = get_api_client()