[Answer]-Django south migration – app migration is not in south_migration table

Make sure you got this particular app in INSTALLED_APPS.

Make sure app has folder and file migrations/__init__.py and of course migrations. (It seems that you’ve done that)

Also you can try resetting the app by doing (careful, it will remove tables in db):

./manage.py migrate app_name zero

To answer your last question: South saves migration history in db only after you run:

./manage.py migrate app_name