01 May 2026
Django community aggregator: Community blog posts
Redesigning DjangoProject.com
News
PyCharm Campaign Now Includes RENEWALS!
Past or current PyCharm Pro users can now take part in the PyCharm campaign! Add 12 months to your current PyCharm Pro subscription. The same deal applies to past, current, or first time users. Get PyCharm Pro 30% off and 100% goes directly to the DSF! Until May 3rd.
Adopt Annual Release Cycle (DEP 20)
A new DEP from Carlton Gibson proposing that Django move to an annual release cycle. There is a lengthy discussion on the GitHub ticket
What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns!
A detailed post of new features from Richard Si, the current maintainer, including pylock files, dependency cooldowns, security fixes, and more.
Django Software Foundation
It's time to redesign djangoproject.com
A redesign of the djangoproject.com website is in progress. This post from the Django blog is an update on the project's process: the plan, who's doing the work, and how you can help.
Updates to Django
Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Hwayoung from Djangonaut Space! 🚀
Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 13 different contributors - including a first-time contributor! Congratulations to Dinesh Thumma for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
All release note-related changes this week came from Djangonaut Space. 🚀
- Added
ModelAdmin.delete_confirmation_max_displayoption to truncate the list of related objects on the delete confirmation page indjango/contrib/admin/options.py, added in Django 6.1 (#10109). - Fixed the inaccessible "---------" blank choice label in form
<select>controls by replacing it with "- Select an option -" via a newBLANK_CHOICE_LABELsetting indjango/conf/global_settings.py, added in Django 6.1, and deprecatedBLANK_CHOICE_DASH(#35879).
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Articles
Running from Django's main development branch in production
Carlton Gibson makes the case for running Django off of Django's main development branch rather than waiting for security and feature releases.
Before GitHub
Armin Ronacher, of Flask and other open-source Python fame, looks wistfully at GitHub's decline and points out that Open Source did not always work this way.
Leaving GitHub as a Social Network
David Guillot points out the many red lines that Microsoft has recently crossed and debates other alternatives.
pgBackRest is dead. Now what?
One of several posts on the longtime sole maintainer of pgBackRest stepping away. This is a fundamental tool for PostgreSQL and a general failure in the open source ecosystem. Additional posts by Jan, Christophe, Stefanie, and Jay.
Django Fellows Update
Fellow Report - Natalia
Another busy week triaging six tickets, reviewing six more, security reports, meetings, and discussions around the recent DEP 20.
Fellow Report - Sarah
Finished up Navigator duties for Djangonauts, managed tickets and security work, and weighing in on anew-features suggestion for Django Admin actions configurable as buttons.
Fellow Report - Jacob
A four day week after returning from DjangoCon yielded some wins like merging @annalauraw's work on improved blank choice labels in forms and @rodbv's work on truncating huge deletion confirmation pages in the admin.
Podcasts
Django Chat #201: DjangoCon Europe Recap + Other News - Jeff Triplett
Jeff is President of the Django Software Foundation and a partner at REVSYS. We discuss the recently held DjangoCon Europe conference, existing Django news, and then share notes on current AI-powered workflows. Also available in video format on YouTube.
Events
DjangoCon US Sponsorship Opportunities
DjangoCon US is August 24-28 this year in Chicago. There are still sponsorship opportunities available (hint, hint) for any companies that want to participate.
EuroPython 2026 tickets now available
This year's conference is in Krakow, Poland from July 13-19, covering two days of tutorials, three days of talks, and two days of sprints.
Django Day Copenhagen Tickets Available
This event is October 2nd and early bird tickets are now available. Note that the event can sell out due to the size of the venue.
PyCon US 2026 - How to Convince Your Boss
PyCon US is fast approaching. If you and your colleagues want to attend, we have a short template to help you discuss the conference at work.
Django London Meetup
Two talks at this event May 7th at Kraken Tech: a talk by Paolo Melchiorre on Django's GeneratedField and Django in the Lab by Andy Woods.
Projects
jsheffie/django-schematic
An interactive graph of your Django model structure. With related blog post.
The Fixi Project
From the creator of HTMX, a collection of five small web libraries based on other libraries they work on. See the related website for more information.
01 May 2026 3:00pm GMT
Issue 335: Redesigning DjangoProject.com
News
PyCharm Campaign Now Includes RENEWALS!
Past or current PyCharm Pro users can now take part in the PyCharm campaign! Add 12 months to your current PyCharm Pro subscription. The same deal applies to past, current, or first time users. Get PyCharm Pro 30% off and 100% goes directly to the DSF! Until May 3rd.
Adopt Annual Release Cycle (DEP 20)
A new DEP from Carlton Gibson proposing that Django move to an annual release cycle. There is a lengthy discussion on the GitHub ticket
What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns!
A detailed post of new features from Richard Si, the current maintainer, including pylock files, dependency cooldowns, security fixes, and more.
Django Software Foundation
It's time to redesign djangoproject.com
A redesign of the djangoproject.com website is in progress. This post from the Django blog is an update on the project's process: the plan, who's doing the work, and how you can help.
Updates to Django
Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Hwayoung from Djangonaut Space! 🚀
Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 13 different contributors - including a first-time contributor! Congratulations to Dinesh Thumma for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
All release note-related changes this week came from Djangonaut Space. 🚀
- Added
ModelAdmin.delete_confirmation_max_displayoption to truncate the list of related objects on the delete confirmation page indjango/contrib/admin/options.py, added in Django 6.1 (#10109). - Fixed the inaccessible "---------" blank choice label in form
<select>controls by replacing it with "- Select an option -" via a newBLANK_CHOICE_LABELsetting indjango/conf/global_settings.py, added in Django 6.1, and deprecatedBLANK_CHOICE_DASH(#35879).
Sponsored Link
Articles
Running from Django's main development branch in production
Carlton Gibson makes the case for running Django off of Django's main development branch rather than waiting for security and feature releases.
Before GitHub
Armin Ronacher, of Flask and other open-source Python fame, looks wistfully at GitHub's decline and points out that Open Source did not always work this way.
Leaving GitHub as a Social Network
David Guillot points out the many red lines that Microsoft has recently crossed and debates other alternatives.
pgBackRest is dead. Now what?
One of several posts on the longtime sole maintainer of pgBackRest stepping away. This is a fundamental tool for PostgreSQL and a general failure in the open source ecosystem. Additional posts by Jan, Christophe, Stefanie, and Jay.
Django Fellows Update
Fellow Report - Natalia
Another busy week triaging six tickets, reviewing six more, security reports, meetings, and discussions around the recent DEP 20.
Fellow Report - Sarah
Finished up Navigator duties for Djangonauts, managed tickets and security work, and weighing in on anew-features suggestion for Django Admin actions configurable as buttons.
Fellow Report - Jacob
A four day week after returning from DjangoCon yielded some wins like merging @annalauraw's work on improved blank choice labels in forms and @rodbv's work on truncating huge deletion confirmation pages in the admin.
Podcasts
Django Chat #201: DjangoCon Europe Recap + Other News - Jeff Triplett
Jeff is President of the Django Software Foundation and a partner at REVSYS. We discuss the recently held DjangoCon Europe conference, existing Django news, and then share notes on current AI-powered workflows. Also available in video format on YouTube.
Events
DjangoCon US Sponsorship Opportunities
DjangoCon US is August 24-28 this year in Chicago. There are still sponsorship opportunities available (hint, hint) for any companies that want to participate.
EuroPython 2026 tickets now available
This year's conference is in Krakow, Poland from July 13-19, covering two days of tutorials, three days of talks, and two days of sprints.
Django Day Copenhagen Tickets Available
This event is October 2nd and early bird tickets are now available. Note that the event can sell out due to the size of the venue.
PyCon US 2026 - How to Convince Your Boss
PyCon US is fast approaching. If you and your colleagues want to attend, we have a short template to help you discuss the conference at work.
Django London Meetup
Two talks at this event May 7th at Kraken Tech: a talk by Paolo Melchiorre on Django's GeneratedField and Django in the Lab by Andy Woods.
Projects
jsheffie/django-schematic
An interactive graph of your Django model structure. With related blog post.
The Fixi Project
From the creator of HTMX, a collection of five small web libraries based on other libraries they work on. See the related website for more information.
01 May 2026 3:00pm GMT
Work & Life updates
This week is a short detour from the normal technical topics I cover around Django, so feel free to skip if this isn't your thing!
Two big items this week, first up is that we launched Hamilton Rock this week! The next few months we will doing a private beta with select customers to test the system is working and get feeback about what's missing and needs more work. This is essential to us get some funding and finding where we are in product market fit!
Next up is that I will be mentoring Praful Gulani through Google Summer of Code this year on adding Experimental APIs to Django. I'm excited and nervous about this as it could have a fairly large impact on Django's trajectory, assuming we crack it and get the shape of this process and API correct. I am also hopeful to secure a new client in the next couple weeks which will address my immediate cashflow issues in the business.
In other news I'm working on a number of side projects. First up is Django Bureau and allpacked.co.uk. This is an experiment in getting AI agents to run an e-commerce store in an autonomous manner without much of my input, or at least that's the immediate goal. This will also have the side benefit of giving me greater understanding of our customers for Hamilton Rock.
Comfort Monitor Live has some updates coming in the pipeline which have developed much quicker thanks to Claude Code. Again with Claude I hope to do some concrete marketing in the near future, which will hopefully result in some revenue.
After the conversations and talk and DjangoCon Europe I have some renewed energy to put into django-prodserver, mainly around improving the API and shifting the development forward to a stable state.
Finally I have also forked a project from my church which is a Django backend for a virtual prayer/praise wall. I'm developing it into a more generic project that could suit more online communities, adding a few new feature ideas I have and perhaps exploring the idea of it being federated.
I do have other projects in the works, but they are lower down the list of priorites so the above need to get to a satisfactory place before I move on... or at least that's the idea, I was getting overwhelmed with the number of ideas/projects in my head so hopefully this is more managable!
I'm also wanting to blog about my adventures with neapolitan and pushing Django templates in new ways (again this required time I don't have much of!)
01 May 2026 5:00am GMT