django-cors-middleware is depreciated, please use adamchainz/django-cors-headers <https://github.com/adamchainz/django-cors-headers>_ instead.
It was created at a time when django-cors-headers was not maintained, but it is well maintained now and there is no need to have two different packages for that.
Extract from adamchainz/django-cors-headers README's About section <https://github.com/adamchainz/django-cors-headers>_:
**django-cors-headers** was created in January 2013 by Otto Yiu. It went
unmaintained from August 2015 and was forked in January 2016 to the package
`django-cors-middleware <https://github.com/zestedesavoir/django-cors-middleware>`_
by Laville Augustin at Zeste de Savoir.
In September 2016, Adam Johnson, Ed Morley, and others gained maintenance
responsibility for **django-cors-headers**
(`Issue 110 <https://github.com/adamchainz/django-cors-headers/issues/110>`__)
from Otto Yiu.
Basically all of the changes in the forked **django-cors-middleware** were
merged back, or re-implemented in a different way, so it should be possible to
switch back. If there's a feature that hasn't been merged, please open an issue
about it.