News

Support the Django Software Foundation by buying PyCharm at a 30% Discount

The Django Software Foundation's primary fundraiser has been extended, so you can get 30 percent off PyCharm Pro and support Django until November 19.

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Call for Proposals for DjangoCon US 2026 Website!

DjangoCon US 2026 requests proposals to redesign branding, illustrations, and the 11ty and Tailwind website for Chicago, including swag, signage, and starter code.

defna.org

"Boost Your GitHub DX" out now

Boost Your GitHub DX by Adam Johnson provides practical guidance on GitHub features, gh CLI, and Actions to streamline collaboration and speed software delivery.

adamj.eu

Django Software Foundation

Five ways to discover Django packages

New Django ecosystem page plus resources like State of Django survey, Django Packages, Awesome Django, Reddit and newsletters help developers discover third-party Django packages.

djangoproject.com

Django at PyCon FR 2025

Highlights from PyCon France where 27 contributors joined together in sprints, discussions of Django's direction, htmx presentations, and more.

djangoproject.com

Python Software Foundation

Trusted Publishing is popular, now for GitLab Self-Managed and Organizations

Django projects can now use PyPI Trusted Publishing to securely publish packages, with GitLab Self Managed beta support and organization pending publishers.

pypi.org

Updates to Django

Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀

Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 11 different contributors - including 3 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Hal Blackburn, Mehraz Hossain Rumman, and Harsh Jain for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

Fixed a bug in Django 5.2 where proxy models having a CompositePrimaryKey incorrectly raised a models.E042 system check error.

Refactored async code to use asyncio.TaskGroup for cleaner, modern concurrency management. Thank you for the hard work on this. 🎉

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Articles

Django Admin Deux: Bringing Django's Admin Back to Django

Django Admin Deux is a proof of concept admin built on Django generic class-based views, plugin-first architecture, and action-based CRUD.

has-a.blog

Preserving referential integrity with JSON fields and Django

Adds referential integrity for model references stored in JSONField within Django by registering model links and enforcing on_delete protection using django-json-schema-editor.

406.ch

Django-Tailwind v4.4: Now with Zero Node.js Setup via Standalone Tailwind CLI

Django-Tailwind 4.4 adds support for Tailwind's Standalone CLI via pytailwindcss, enabling Tailwind CSS workflows without requiring Node.js, and integrates it into manage.py.

timonweb.com

django-deadcode: idea to release in under 2 hours

django-deadcode was prototyped and published in about two hours using Agent OS and Claude to analyze Django projects for removable dead code.

softwarecrafts.co.uk

Django Fellow Report

Django Fellow Report - Natalia

A very security-heavy week . Most of my energy went into preparing and testing patches for the upcoming security release, including a tough vulnerability that I spent quite some time wrestling with. It was demanding and a bit exhausting, but everything is now on track for next week's release.

djangoproject.com

Django Fellow Report - Jacob

This week we landed the JSONNull expression I mentioned last week. We also landed a follow-up to the database delete behavior feature to add support in inspectdb.

djangoproject.com

Events

Behind the Curtain as a Conference Chair

Chairing DjangoCon US 2025 taught that effective leadership means creating and holding welcoming spaces for community, volunteers, and speakers to collaborate and thrive.

caktusgroup.com

Videos

PyBay 2025 - YouTube

PyBay 2025 features talks on Python tooling, robust testing, typing, async performance, LLM integration, and data validation relevant to Django backends.

youtube.com

The future of Python and AI with Guido van Rossum

Guido van Rossum discusses Python's role in the AI era, TypeAgent and typing tools like Pyright, and AI coding workflows with VS Code and Copilot. There are some nice Django and DjangoCon US shoutouts here.

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Podcasts

Django Chat #189: Django 20 Years Later with Adrian Holovaty

Adrian finally agreed to come on the podcast! This episode was so much fun to record. Adrian is one of the original creators of Django and we discussed everything from initial design decisions with twenty years of hindsight, why modern JavaScript is so complicated, coding with LLMs, and much more.

djangochat.com

Django News Jobs

Looking for your next Django focused role? Here are the latest openings across security engineering, backend development, and university innovation.

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Django Forum

DEP 15 - Improved startproject interface - Django Internals

DEP 15 standardizes and extends startproject to support multiple modern project layouts while preserving backwards compatibility and encouraging consistent, opinionated project structures.

djangoproject.com

Projects

stuartmaxwell/djcheckup

DJ Checkup is a security scanner for Django sites. This package provides a command-line interface to run the security checks against your Django site.

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wsvincent/djangoforai

Django + local LLM + server side events + HTMX demo. As presented during DjangoCon US 2025 talk.

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14 Nov 2025 5:00pm GMT

Learn how to use UUIDv7 today with stable releases of Python 3.14, Django 5.2 and PostgreSQL 18. A step by step guide showing how to generate UUIDv7 in Python, store them in Django models, use PostgreSQL native functions and build time ordered primary keys without writing SQL.

14 Nov 2025 5:00am GMT

A few weeks ago I noticed a toot from Jeff Triplett about Anthrophic releasing Claude Code for the Web. This was the final spark that coalesced a few different thoughts that had been lingering in the back of my head, some of I have written a bit about before. The first thought was the speed of prototyping that agentic AI enables. Essentially ideas or tasks can simply be executed rather than being written down and the time allocated to develop these ideas go from weeks to days or even hours. The second thought is related to the first in that tools like Agent OS allows for AI to build out products in a more reliable way for the most part. I have also been pondering how I can use my mobile more as an engineer, the Github app is ok for PR reviews, but to date building anything needs a larger screen.

The final thought goes back to the toot from Jeff and Claude Code on the being possibly the cloest thing so far to my post from day 282 about how our tooling doesn't yet fully leverage what AI can do for us.

Well this led to me creating two things this week. First was a template repo on Github which is only loaded with an install of my Django Agent OS profile. This enables me to quickly start a project in the browser without having to open a terminal or potentially even be at my laptop, I could start a project from my phone. Second was an experiment to see how much I could get Claude to build from the browser. I took my idea from Day 71 about analysing a Django codebase for dead code that could be removed. Over the course of about 2 hours of my time and letting Claude along with Agent OS, I have a package released on PyPI.

The unlock here is that I have yet to clone the repo to my laptop. In fact, the most time consuming part has been getting CI to work nicely to release new versions. Upon reflection this is something to go into the template repository, but then not every project needs to be uploaded to PyPI.

It's been a fun experiment to get a working proof of concept out the door so quickly, but it needs a bit more refinement, testing and review before I recommend anyone else use it! If you want to have a peak, the repo is here and package is here

13 Nov 2025 6:00am GMT

13 Nov 2025 5:00am GMT

🔗 Links

• Adrian's personal website
• Soundslice
• Django Book
• MusicXML
• MNX specification

🎥 YouTube

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12 Nov 2025 6:00pm GMT

This post is the first in a three-part series reflecting on DjangoCon US 2025 - In this post, I'm taking you behind the scenes of DjangoCon US 2025 to share what it taught me about leadership, community, and the power of holding space for others.

12 Nov 2025 12:00pm GMT

I've just released version 4.4 of Django-Tailwind, and it comes with a major new feature: you can now use Tailwind CSS without needing Node.js.

This is made possible by another one of my packages - Pytailwindcss - which brings support for Tailwind's Standalone CLI into the Python ecosystem. …

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12 Nov 2025 10:44am GMT

Artificial Intelligence has become the backbone of modern software development, driving efficiency and innovation across every phase of the lifecycle. From AI-powered code generation and automated bug detection to intelligent testing, refactoring, and DevOps optimization, AI is reshaping how software gets built and delivered. Developers now spend less time on repetitive tasks and more on solving complex problems, leading to faster releases, higher quality, and greater team productivity. In today's competitive landscape, integrating AI isn't optional-it's the new standard for staying ahead.

11 Nov 2025 5:29pm GMT

News

Django security releases issued: 5.2.8, 5.1.14, and 4.2.26

Django 5.2.8, 5.1.14, and 4.2.26 fix a Windows NFKC redirect DoS and a high severity SQL injection via QuerySet Q _connector; upgrade now.

djangoproject.com

2026 DSF Board Candidates

DSF presents 19 candidates for three 2026 board seats with voting open to eligible members until November 26, 2025, 23:59 AOE.

djangoproject.com

Announcing DjangoCon Europe 2026 in Athens, Greece! ☀️🏖️🏛️🇬🇷

DjangoCon Europe 2026 will take place in Athens April 15 to 17 with Django and Python talks, workshops, sprints, and community engagement opportunities.

djangoproject.com

Django Software Foundation

Django Developers Survey 2025 results

2025 Django Developers Survey reveals key trends, tooling preferences, and actionable recommendations for Django development, with a full report and JetBrains analysis.

djangoproject.com

Python Software Foundation

Connecting the Dots: Understanding the PSF's Current Financial Outlook

PSF reports declining revenue, increased costs, and paused grants, urging community support and sponsorships to sustain PyPI, PyCon US, and core Python infrastructure.

blogspot.com

Wagtail CMS News

A new approach to search and more in Wagtail 7.2

With fully revamped search, readability checks, and more, this is a collection of new features you don't want to miss

wagtail.org

The 2025 State of Django's top packages

The State of Django 2025 shows Django Ninja and Wagtail rank highly by downloads, highlighting popular API, auth, and integration needs for Django projects.

wagtail.org

Updates to Django

Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀

Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 7 different contributors - including 2 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Michal Mládek and varunkasyap for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

Django 6.1 news:

• Is dropped the support for MySQL < 8.4.
• Introduced JSONNull to explicitly represent JSON null values, aligns None behavior in JSON arrays with standalone JSON fields, and begins deprecating the use of None for querying JSON null.
• The DatabaseIntrospection.get_relations() should now return a dictionary with 3-tuples containing (field_name_other_table, other_table, db_on_delete) as values. db_on_delete is one of the database-level delete options e.g. DB_CASCADE.

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Articles

</> htmx ~ The fetch()ening

htmx 4.0 rewrites internals to use fetch, explicit :inherited attributes, network-backed history, and streaming swaps, simplifying interactions with server-rendered Django templates.

htmx.org

An Annual Release Cycle for Django

Proposal to move Django to an annual calendar-based release cycle with each release as an LTS, tighter Python support window, and more explicit stability guarantees.

buttondown.com

Rippling's Gunicorn pre-fork journey

Rippling converted their Django monolith to Gunicorn pre-fork with lifecycle hooks, proxies, and gc.freeze to cut memory by over 70% and costs 30%.

rippling.com

Your first django PR - from scratch to improved patch

Step-by-step git and local development workflow for improving existing Django patches, running tests, using pre-commit hooks, squashing commits, and creating a proper PR.

dev.to

Thoughts about Django-based content management systems

Prefer building a lightweight Django CMS on top of the Django admin, using modular components to reduce maintenance, enable faster upgrades, and support structured content editing.

406.ch

Finding (implicitly) inherited HTMX attributes

Locate and convert implicit HTMX attribute inheritance to explicit hx-inherit by logging in getAttributeValueWithDisinheritance before upgrading to HTMX v4 in Django projects.

noumenal.es

Forum

PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports - PEPs

The Python Steering Council unanimously approved PEP 810, Explicit Lazy Imports, praising the authors for improving on past proposals and delivering a well-balanced design. The Council endorsed the use of the lazy keyword, made minor recommendations for clarity and completeness, and expressed appreciation for the authors' work.

python.org

Events

PyCon US 2026 - Call for Proposals Now Open!

We're so excited to announce that PyCon US 2026 is heading to California for our first year in our sunny new host city of Long Beach, CA ! W...

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DjangoCon Videos

DjangoCon US 2025 Videos

DjangoCon US 2025 was held in Chicago, Illinois USA, September 2025.

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Django News Jobs

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Software Engineer Lead at Center for Academic Innovation, University of Michigan

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Projects

Arfey/django-async-backend

Mykhailo Havelia has pulled @fcurella's initial work on async cursors for the Django ORM out into a separate DB backend. That means you can try it out on your projects and feed back. via Carlton

github.com

feincms/django-tree-queries

Adjacency-list trees for Django using recursive common table expressions. Supports PostgreSQL, sqlite, MySQL and MariaDB.

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07 Nov 2025 5:00pm GMT

Sometimes the limit you hit when dealing with high traffic on a website isn't the limit that needs to be raised. We encountered this recently on a site we're helping to maintain and upgrade. The site has been around since the very early days of Django. It was built back in the days when Apache with mod_wsgi (or even mod_python!) was one of the more common Django deployment environments.

06 Nov 2025 4:53am GMT

This article looks at how Cursor and Claude compare when developing a Django application.

06 Nov 2025 4:28am GMT

Thoughts about Django-based content management systems

I have almost exclusively used Django for implementing content management systems (and other backends) since 2008.

In this time, content management systems have come and gone. The big three systems many years back were django CMS, Mezzanine and our own FeinCMS.

During all this time I have always kept an eye open for other CMS than our own but have steadily continued working in my small corner of the Django space. I think it's time to write down why I have been doing this all this time, for myself and possibly also for other interested parties.

Why not use Wagtail, django CMS or any of those alternatives?

Let's start with the big one. Why not use Wagtail?

The Django administration interface is actually great. Even though some people say that it should be treated as a tool for developers only, recent improvements to the accessibility and the general usability suggest otherwise. I have written more about my views on this in The Django admin is a CMS. Using and building on top of the Django admin is a great way to immediately profit from all current and future improvements without having to reimplement anything.

I don't want to have to reimplement Django's features, I want to add what I need on top.

Faster updates

Everyone implementing and maintaining other CMS is doing a great job and I don't want to throw any shade. I still feel that it's important to point out that systems can make it hard to adopt new Django versions on release day:

• The update cycle of many large apps using Django lag behind Django. Wagtail declares an upper version boundary for Django which makes it hard to adopt Django versions faster than Wagtail releases updates.
• Some django CMS components such as django-filer have lagged behind in the past. Looking at the project's CI matrix and activity suggests that this is not the case anymore. That said, a simpler alternative exists.

These larger systems have many more (very talented) people working on them. I'm not saying I'm doing a better job. I'm only pointing out that I'm following a different philosophy where I'm conservative about running code in production and I'd rather have less features when the price is a lot of maintenance later. I'm always thinking about long term maintenance. I really don't want to maintain some of these larger projects, or even parts of them. So I'd rather not adopt them for projects which hopefully will be developed and maintained for a long time to come. By the way: This experience has been earned the hard way.

The rule of least power

From Wikipedia:

In programming, the rule of least power is a design principle that "suggests choosing the least powerful [computer] language suitable for a given purpose". Stated alternatively, given a choice among computer languages, classes of which range from descriptive (or declarative) to procedural, the less procedural, more descriptive the language one chooses, the more one can do with the data stored in that language.

Django itself already provides lots and lots of power. I'd argue that a very powerful platform on top of Django may be too much of a good thing. I'd rather keep it simple and stupid.

Editing heterogenous collections of content

Django admin's inlines are great, but they are not sufficient for building a CMS. You need something to manage different types. django-content-editor does that and has done that since 2009.

When Wagtail introduced the StreamField in 2015 it was definitely a great update to an already great CMS but it wasn't a new idea generally and not a new thing in Django land. They didn't say it was and welcomed the fact that they also started using a better way to structure content.

Structured content is great. Putting everything into one large rich text area isn't what I want. Django's ORM and admin interface are great for actually modelling the data in a reusable way. And when you need more flexibility than what's offered by Django's forms, the community offers many projects extending the admin. These days, I really like working with the django-json-schema-editor component; I even reference other model instances in the database and let the JSON editor handle the referential integrity transparently for me (so that referenced model instances do not silently disappear).

More reading

The future of FeinCMS and the feincms category may be interesting. Also, I'd love to talk about these thoughts, either by email or on Mastodon.

05 Nov 2025 6:00pm GMT

Weeknotes (2025 week 45)

Autumn is nice

I love walking through the forest with all the colors and the rustling when you walk through the leaves on the ground.

Updated packages since 2025-10-23

• feincms3 5.4.3: Small fix for the YouTube IFRAME; it seems that the referrerpolicy attribute is now necessary for the embed to work everywhere.
• django-json-schema-editor 0.8.2: Allowed forwarding more options to the prose editor component; specifically, not just extensions but also the undocumented js_modules entry. This means that custom extensions are now also supported inside the JSON editor component.
• django-prose-editor 0.20: I reworked the menu extension to be customizable more easily (you can now specify button groups and dropdowns directly without using JavaScript code) and I also extended the NodeClass extension to allow assigning predefined CSS classes not only to nodes but also to marks.

04 Nov 2025 6:00pm GMT

def get_movie() -> {"name": str, "year": int}:
    # At least something like this ^^^, I can't type that quickly :-)
    ...

04 Nov 2025 5:00am GMT

04 Nov 2025 5:00am GMT

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