diff --git a/django/db/migrations/writer.py b/django/db/migrations/writer.py
index b4417aadba0..1bed59b3ef2 100644
--- a/django/db/migrations/writer.py
+++ b/django/db/migrations/writer.py
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ MIGRATION_TEMPLATE = """\
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from django.db import models, migrations
+from django.db import migrations, models
 %(imports)s
 
 class Migration(migrations.Migration):
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.5.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.5.txt
index 3f999acfba9..c2557bd1c2a 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.5.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.5.txt
@@ -26,3 +26,6 @@ Bugfixes
 
 * Fixed autocompletion for options of non-``argparse`` management commands
   (:ticket:`25372`).
+
+* Alphabetized ordering of imports in ``from django.db import migrations,
+  models`` statement in newly created migrations (:ticket:`25384`).