Phil Gyford wrote an article about how nice it is that the Django admin pre-populates inputs from the GET parameters if there are any. This can be used for bookmarklets as in his examples, or just general bookmarks where you can quickly go to a page with parts of a form prefilled.

Another very useful case for this pattern is to have a link on one page of your product with a link to a create form with prefilled data based on the context of the page you linked from. Like having an artist page with a link to the create album page with the artist filled in.

The Django admin does this, but Django forms do not. Because Django forms have an API that takes a dict for the data and not the request object itself, it can't be retrofitted to have this feature either. It's a nice example of where limiting the API surface area also limits future development.

In iommi, defaults-from-GET is the default for all forms. So if you build with iommi you get this feature across your product for free, not just in the admin. We even handle the edge cases for you like when you have a GET form, and you supply parameters via GET, so the form needs to know if this is from some URL or from a submit of the form. This is handled in iommi for you transparently.

15 Feb 2025 6:00am GMT

News

Python 3.14.0 alpha 5 is out

Python 3.14.0a5 is the fifth of seven planned alpha releases.

blogspot.com

DjangoCon US Call for Proposals

The CFP is now open until April 27th. The earlier you submit, the better!

pretalx.com

DSF member of the month - Lily Foote

Lily is a long-time contributor to Django core, especially on the ORM, and is currently a member of the Django 6.x Steering Council.

djangoproject.com

I'm excited to join the Sovereign Tech Fellowship

Hugo van Kemenade is now a full-time open source developer, working on Python, with a focus on CPython, including as release manager for Python 3.14 and 3.15.

hugovk.dev

Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Abigail Afi Gbadago from the DSF Board!

Last week we had 13 pull requests merged into Django by 9 different contributors - including 3 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Andrew, Brian Nettleton and Arnaldo Govene for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!🎊

This Week's Highlights:

• Support for MariaDB 10.5 has been dropped so MariaDB 10.6 minimum supported version for Django 6.0 (to be released December 2025).
• Support for GEOSHasM has been added for the GEOS API.
• Requesting a default value when migrating an auto field has been prevented. Special thanks for the long work on this PR 🥳

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Articles

Django in government - Thibaud's blog

DSF President Thibaud Colas focuses on almost 1,000 Django websites used in governments around the world.

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Pytest, A Practical Guide

Andrew Mshar provides an introduction to key pytest features, including fixtures, flags, markers, and Django-specific tools.

programmingmylife.com

Things I'd Like to See in a DjangoCon US 2025 Talk

Former DjangoCon US program chair Drew Winstel has a detailed list of suggested topics for DjangoCon US talks this year. The CFP is now open.

winstel.dev

Prefixed Parameters for Django querystring tag

An overview of Django 5.1's new querystring tag and how to add support for prefixed parameters.

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Jump to dev

A clever Django middleware lets developers paste production URLs into their local server, automatically stripping out the domain for quick issue reproduction.

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Events

DjangoCongress JP 2025

This online event is coming soon! Feb, 22, 2025.

djangocongress.jp

Tutorials

Django MongoDB Backend Quickstart

Learn how to connect to a MongoDB deployment, ensure your deployment is hosted on MongoDB Atlas, and interact with the data using simple CRUD operations.

dev.to

Videos

uv and Django - Managing Django Projects & Dependencies with uv!

This video dives into using uv and Django together for project and dependency management, including how to install packages into different groups and run Django commands.

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14 Feb 2025 5:00pm GMT

An overview of Django 5.1's new querystring tag and how to add support for prefixed parameters.

13 Feb 2025 8:05pm GMT

TIL: Tools exist which do not lowercase domain names when requesting websites over HTTP(S)

About a week ago I received error mails for a surprising behavior (to me!) where some tool requested an URL from one of our websites using feincms3-language-sites (a Django library for multilingual websites) with a domain name containing uppercase characters.

I knew that the domain part of all sorts of URLs is case sensitive, but what surprised me was that our server actually got a request with such a domain name, I hadn't really seen that before.

After researching a bit I learned that for example curl intentionally preserves the casing of domain names, but browsers generally do lowercase domains because it's more consistent. It's interesting that the initial error was caused by a client with a proper Safari/macOS user agent, but further research showed that the request was probably sent by something called go-social-activity-parser, whatever that is.

I fixed the bug in feincms3-language-sites and also in feincms3-sites by switching to case-insensitive matching of domain names. I have not yet added punycode or IDNA equivalence to the code because I haven't needed it yet and because I'm not 100% sure how to do it without breaking anything. Even though I often work on websites in languages with lots of accents and umlauts we don't use such domain names too often, so it hasn't been a problem yet. I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

13 Feb 2025 6:00pm GMT

Hey, Happy Wednesday!

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News and Updates

• Added Pagination to the Projects page as well as project search.

• Want to experiment with the new section called "Django Updates". Last week I published a post with all of January's blog post updates. In addition to doing monthly posts I want to add a streamlined version here, on what got updated during the week. Would love to hear some feedback if any.

Projects

• Sombreros Olé - E-commerce - Handcrafted hats, bags and more.

Jobs

• ⭐⭐⭐ Full Stack Django/Python Developer at Bridge IT Services Ltd⭐⭐⭐

• Senior Software Engineer (Platform) at Seek AI

• Full-stack Senior Engineer at Blueberry Pediatrics

From the Community

• Looking at Django task runners and queues by Kevin Renskers
  At Sound Radix, they use Django with a task queue for sending emails and running scheduled jobs, relying on packages like django-mailer and django-apscheduler. They are exploring options for handling background tasks, including adding django-tasks or switching to django-q2, but face limitations with both. The author prefers to keep django-apscheduler for scheduled tasks while considering adding django-tasks for one-off tasks, aiming for a future-proof solution.

• DSF member of the month - Lily Foote by Sarah Abderemane

• Django admin tip: Adding links to related objects in change forms by Matthias Kestenholz

• Better unit-tests for your emails with Django 5.2 by Ronny Vedrilla

• Rendering form fields as group in Django by Valentino Gagliardi

Top 3 links from last Issue

• SoundMadeSeen - SoundMadeSeen is a tool that allows podcasters to create videos from their audio content

• Bank Statement Analyzer - Analyze your spending patterns with AI

• Django WTF - Django Packages Index

Django Changes

Here is the list of changes that have been made to Django's codebase in the last week.

1. Overview

Focused work on:

• documentation updates
• shell command improvements
• database backend enhancements
• version management

There were 11 commits from 4 different contributors.

2. Key Changes and Features

Database Related:

• Removed MariaDB 10.5 support as part of Django 6.0 updates by Mariusz Felisiak)
• Fixed PostgreSQL index deletion SQL bug by Natalia)
• Enhanced database backend extensibility for Tuple compilation by Simon Charette)

Shell Command Improvements:

• Fixed verbose output formatting for auto-importing objects by Natalia)
• Refactored get_and_report_namespace function by Natalia)
• Added documentation for --no-imports flag by Natalia)

Documentation and Release Management:

• Added placeholder release notes for version 5.1.7 by Natalia)
• Updated release dates for versions 5.1.6, 5.0.12, and 4.2.19 by Natalia)
• Modified PyPI release documentation for multi-token support by Mariusz Felisiak)

Code Cleanup:

• Removed Python 2 compatibility code from test suite by Tim Graham)
• Improved documentation formatting for PEP 8 compliance by Natalia)

3. Development Patterns and Contributors

• Main contributors: Natalia (6 commits), Mariusz Felisiak (2 commits), Tim Graham (1 commit), Simon Charette (1 commit)
• Focus on code quality and maintenance
• Strong emphasis on documentation updates and version management
• Continued modernization of codebase by removing legacy support

4. Recommendations

• Users should prepare to migrate from MariaDB 10.5 as support is being dropped
• Database backend developers should review the new Tuple compilation changes for potential optimizations
• Projects using PostgreSQL should update to get the index deletion fix
• Teams should review their PyPI deployment configurations if using multiple tokens

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12 Feb 2025 8:15pm GMT

At Dryft I have the luxury of a small production database, so I can mirror prod to my local dev machine in ~3 minutes. I use this a lot to get quick local reproduction of issues. I used to copy-paste the relevant URL part to my local dev and felt quite happy with it. Then I realized that I could just paste the entire URL after http://localhost:8000/! My browser autocompleted that part anyway, and URLs like http://localhost:8000/https://[...] are obviously invalid for normal uses cases, so can cleanly be made to just strip out the domain part and redirect.

This is the middleware I came up with to do this:

def domain_strip_middleware(get_response):

    def domain_strip_middleware_inner(request):
        if not settings.DEBUG:
            return get_response(request)

        m = re.match(r'/https?://(?P<domain>[^/]*)(?P<path>/.*)', request.get_full_path())
        if m:
            return HttpResponseRedirect(m.groupdict()['path'])

        return get_response(request)

    return domain_strip_middleware_inner

09 Feb 2025 6:00am GMT

Le CSRF , mais pourquoi faire ?

Imaginons, juste comme ça hypothétiquement, que vous vouliez désactiver de manière globale la protection CSRF sur la totalité des urls d'un site django.

Vous pensez qu'il suffit de désactiver le middleware qui va bien (soit django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware ) pour que op c'est bon, la vérification CSRF n'est plus mise en place ?

Vous serez alors décontenancé de voir que non, cela ne suffit pas. Il faut aussi ajouter le décorateur csrf_exempt ( qui se trouve dans django.views.decorators.csrf ) sur chacune de vos urls. Un peu compliqué en vrai, surtout si vous avez beaucoup d'urls. _

Comment faire ?

Tout simplement coder un middleware qui va l'enlever pour vous. Vous n'aurez ensuite qu'à le déclarer dans les middleware actifs.

Et voila ! Il suffit ensuite de le déclarer dans MIDDLEWARE et le tour est joué ( par exemple avec un BadIdeaApp.BadMiddleware.NOCSRFMiddleware

Groupons, Groupons, Groupons !!!

J'avais totalement oublié l'existence du templatetags regroup qui permet de regrouper des objets identique par un attribut commun. Comme regrouper une liste de dictionnaires par les valeurs de l'un des attributs. La documentation complète est disponible ici : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/ref/templates/builtins/#regroup

Et redécouvrir ce templatetags m'a été bien utile. Surtout en le couplant avec un autre templatetags que j'avais également oublié, dicsort ( https://docs.djangoproject.com/fr/4.2/ref/templates/builtins/#std-templatefilter-dictsort) qui va trier une liste de dictionnaire par une des clés des dictionnaires.

The post Petites découvertes ou redécouvertes des derniers jours. first appeared on Le Mad Blog.

08 Feb 2025 5:41am GMT

News

Django 5.1.6, 5.0.12, and 4.2.19 bugfix release

Two new bugfixes in the latest update.

djangoproject.com

MongoDB Django Backend Now Available in Public Preview

The Official Django MongoDB Backend is now available in public preview.

mongodb.com

Python 3.13.2 and 3.12.9 now available!

Python 3.13.2 and 3.12.9 are maintenance releases.

python.org

Updates to Django

Boost Your Git DX second update out now

Adam Johnson's excellent book, Boost Your Git DX, now has a second update available!

adamj.eu

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Velda Kiara from DEFNA and Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 21 pull requests merged into Django by 13 different contributors - including 3 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Peter DeVita, Mohammadreza Eskandari, and Vinko Mlacic for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board 🎊 !

This Week's Django Highlights:

• Allowed customizing the password_change_form in the Django Admin for custom validation (Django 6.0).
• Fixed a bug in ArrayAgg() which ensures it returns a default value when using an empty list filter(__in=[]).
• The Django Steering Council have started publishing their meeting minutes.

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Articles

Creating the MongoDB Database Backend for Django

Jib Adegunloye is the lead software developer on the official MongoDB database backend for Django. He writes here about the long process of brining official support to life.

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First month on Django's Steering Council

Carlton Gibson shares some thoughts from the Django 6.x Steering Council.

noumenal.es

(Re)naming things is hard

MP 133: Naming things is hard, but renaming things can be even harder.

I've been steadily working through the remaining issues that should be closed before the 1.0 release of django-simple-deploy. One of the last things to address involves reconsidering a name that's used throughout the project.

Renaming a

mostlypython.com

The Ultimate Guide to Django Templates

A very in-depth guide on everything related to Django templates, including the different types and how to use them.

jetbrains.com

Better unit-tests for your emails with Django 5.2

Django 5.2 introduces a new helper method, body_contains(), that simplifies unit-testing email content, making it easier to assert text-based content across plain-text and HTML emails.

medium.com

Events

Call for Proposals for DjangoCon Africa 2025 is now open!

The Call for Proposals is now open and will run from the 1st of February to the 31st of March 2025.

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Speaking at DjangoCon Africa

A guide to the selection process, presentation types, proposal guidelines, and suggested topics for speaking at DjangoCon Africa.

djangocon.africa

Tutorials

Let's Switch Things Up: Using MongoDB in an Intro Django Project

A beginner-friendly tutorial on creating a new project with a MongoDB backend.

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Podcasts

Django Chat #175: The Future of Django with Emma Delescolle

Emma is a longtime Django community member and newly elected member of the Django 6.x Steering Council. We discuss the future of Django, what it can learn from the Ember community, class-based views, django-ninja, and more.

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Django News Jobs

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Official MongoDB Django Backend.

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meeb/django-distill

Minimal configuration static site generator for Django.

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07 Feb 2025 5:00pm GMT

• Ember RFCs
• Emma has a blog
• LevIT
• Django: Looking Forward to the Next 20 Years
• drf-schema-adapter
• Django 6.x Steering Council Election Results
• django-distill
• PyScript
• Rewriting Django from almost scratch in 2021 - DjangoCon Europe

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05 Feb 2025 6:00pm GMT

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News and Updates

• Last few weeks have been pretty good in terms of personal productivity, so I allowed myself some time to play around with LLMs. The results were quite good. If you are curious about my work and content I produce, you can subscribe to my personal newsletter.

• First thing that came out of it is the post about Django Updates in January 2025. I wrote some code that gets all the commit from the django repo from January, summarizes each one with AI and then creates a master summary with all the important details. I would love to hear your feedback about it, if any. I will keep iterating over it to improve. Even thinking about making a separate product out of it.

• I started dabbling in a new project which is top secret for now. Just kidding... I'm thinking of creating a web app that will help me come up with creative ways of sharing my projects, blog posts and other work on the internet (directories, link aggregators, social media, etc), using specific voice for each place. This means that

• I'm back to updating the django-saas-starter. If you ever end up using it, feel free telling me about your experience. I'm trying to make it as easy to use as possible. I'm probably going to make it paid at some point. Just as an FYI, though I'm not 100% sure about it.

• Anyway... Sorry for the rambling. Let's get into this week's issue.

Projects

• Design Studio Manager - Business management software for interior design studios. Handles the entire back of office workflow, including proposal, procurement, invoicing, reporting and managing work in progress.

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• Online Convert Pro - Free Online Tools for Simple, Creative, Easy

• Django WTF - Django Packages Index

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Jobs

• Business Development Representative at RINSE

• ⭐⭐⭐ Full Stack Django/Python Developer at Bridge IT Services Ltd⭐⭐⭐

• Head of Backend Development at Doist

From the Community

• Managing Django's Queue by Carlton Gibson - Django's queue is overloaded and slowing everything down. The GitHub effect pushes too many extractive contributions onto a few core maintainers. A federated model would spread out the work and keep the community open and healthy.

• Avoiding Mocks: Testing LLM Applications with LangChain in Django - This article discusses a testing approach for Django projects that use large language models (LLMs) without relying on mocks. It suggests using a test-specific LLM backend to define responses and inspect requests, improving test reliability and maintainability. The approach allows for better isolation of tests and avoids common pitfalls associated with mocking.

• An Introduction to Django Views by Evgenia Verbina - Django views are essential for handling web requests and rendering templates in Django applications. There are two types of views: function-based views, which are simple and straightforward, and class-based views, which offer more structure and reusability. Understanding how to effectively use views will help you develop your Django projects more efficiently.

• (Re)naming things is hard by Eric Matthes - Renaming a widely used part of a project takes significant work. The author changed "simple_deploy" to "django_simple_deploy," which required thorough updates to code, documentation, and tests. They suggest prioritizing clear, consistent names early on and revisiting them if needed to help new users and contributors.

• What Changed? by Evan Rupert - The author uses a new project to refine workflows, switching from Make to Task, mandating an abstract base model for consistency, and focusing heavily on test coverage. He also reduces friction by integrating tests directly within the development environment. Yet he continues using Django Rest Framework and factoryboy, as they still provide rapid, reliable API and test development.

• What is OpenTelemetry and how to add it to your Django application by Jessica Garson - OpenTelemetry is an open-source framework that helps you monitor applications like Django in a standardized way. This blog post provides a guide on how to set up OpenTelemetry with a Django to-do list app and connect it to Elastic for observability. You can choose between automatic and manual instrumentation to customize your monitoring experience.

Top 3 links from last Issue

• Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer by Andrew Atkinson

• TIL: Django relations are not cached in model instance by Enrique Soria

• CheckIN - All In One Software For Car Wash Companies.

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04 Feb 2025 8:30pm GMT

News

PyPI Now Supports Project Archival

Projects on PyPI can now be marked as archived.

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Django Software Foundation

400 individual members of the Django Software Foundation

The Django Software Foundation reached 400 individual members.

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Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Abigail Afi Gbadago from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 21 pull requests merged into Django by 12 different contributors - including 2 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Gregory Mariani and Igor Scheller for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!🎊

Highlights of the changes made:

• The main branch is now tracking development for Django 6.0.
• You can now squash a squashed migration. This eases the squashing process (#19082).
• Support has been dropped for Python 3.10 & 3.11 (#19067)

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Articles

Database Indexing in Django

Explore the fundamentals of database indexing in Django-covering types, advantages, and practical examples-to help you significantly improve query performance and scalability in your projects.

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An Introduction to Django Views

An overview of Django views, covering function-based vs. class-based approaches, best practices, and practical PyCharm tips for streamlined web development.

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Django 5.2 simple_block_tag with HTMX

Django 5.2 introduces the new simple_block_tag(), demonstrated here with HTMX to validate and test custom attributes for more robust and maintainable components.

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Avoiding Mocks: Testing LLM Applications with LangChain in Django

A practical method for testing Django-based LLM apps with LangChain uses a custom fake backend to avoid mocks, enabling flexible refactoring and thorough validation of model interactions.

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Add headings to HTML landmarks

Use visually hidden headings to make your website easier to navigate.

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Rendering form fields as group in Django

A welcome addition in Django 5.0, the concept of field groups makes a lot easier to customize the layout of our Django forms.

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Looking at Django task runners and queues

A look at different ways to combine scheduled and one-off background jobs in Django-comparing django-apscheduler, django-tasks, django-q2, Celery, and cron-to handle tasks like sending email and long-running processes efficiently.

loopwerk.io

Events

PyOhio 2025

PyOhio is a free annual Python community conference based in Ohio this July 26-27, 2025.

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Tutorials

How to Use GraphQL in Django with Elasticsearch

A guide to combining Graphene-Django with Django Elasticsearch DSL to create high-performance GraphQL endpoints, complete with advanced search and filtering via Elasticsearch.

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Podcasts

Real Python #236: Simon Willison: Using LLMs for Python Development

Simon talks about his LLM research and explores ways of writing Python code with these rapidly evolving tools.

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Django News Jobs

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drf-forms/drf-schema-adapter

Making using Django with frontend libraries and frameworks DRYer.

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31 Jan 2025 5:00pm GMT

In this episode, I completed the simplified sign up process for my JourneyInbox app. I finished off the final features that add account verification and initial engagement features to make sign up and nice and functional experience.

31 Jan 2025 6:00am GMT

Weeknotes (2025 week 05)

Djangonaut Space

In December I wrote a few paragraphs about my decision to not run for the Django Steering Council, mentioning that I want to contribute in different ways.

I have offered to contribute to Djangonaut Space to do some mentoring. I'm already a bit stressed, but that's normal and to be expected. I'll probably have more to share about that in the close future!

Releases

• feincms-cookiecontrol 1.6: Removed the hardcoded dependency upon feincms3 and some additional code golfing. The cookie banner JavaScript is now back to <4KiB.
• django-curtains 0.7: Updated the CI job list and modernized the package somewhat, no code changes necessary. It's good to release updated versions though just to show that it's still actively maintained.
• django-prose-editor 0.10.3: Small CSS fixes and mainly updated TipTap/ProseMirror.
• django-imagefield 0.22: The updated version no longer autodeletes processed images; this wasn't really a problem before but I was a little bit fearful that images are still referenced elsewhere and this change let's me sleep better.
• feincms-oembed 2.0: Oembed support for FeinCMS 1 without actually depending upon the FeinCMS package itself. Still works.
• django-content-editor 7.2: The Region type is now hashable; this may be useful, or not.
• feincms3 5.3.1: I undeprecated the TemplateMixin because even though PageTypeMixin is nicer, sometimes all you need is a template selector.

29 Jan 2025 6:00pm GMT

In part 1 of this series, I briefly covered quantitive risk measuring - assigning a numeric value to risk, like "$3,500", rather than a qualitative label like "medium" - only to quickly recommend against trying it. In this final sidebar, I want to come back to this topic. I'll spend a bit more time explaining what I see as the pros and cons of quantitative risk measurement - why you might or might not want to use numeric values over more simple risk matrixes.

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