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News

PyCharm & Django Fundraiser Extended to September 14

The second half of our annual JetBrains fundraiser has been extended through September 14, 2026. Thank you to JetBrains for the extra time. You still have time to renew your PyCharm license or give it a try.

Call for volunteers: Fundraising Working Group

The Django Software Foundation is looking for people to join the Fundraising Working Group. This is a particularly interesting time to get involved.

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Django Software Foundation

Django Steering Council Meetings - 2026

Notes from the September 7 meeting: packaging related tools as extras, experimental features, usage telemetry, and Fellows pinging the CompositeField and content type parsing DEPs.

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Python Software Foundation

Incident Report: File Hosting Errors

Two weeks of intermittent 502s and 503s on files.pythonhosted.org came from a Fastly canary that left one cache node half rolled back, which then exposed three latent bugs in PyPI's own config. The takeaway for the rest of us: turn on dependency caching in CI, which setup-python leaves off by default.

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Wagtail CMS News

Prototyping a new CLI for Wagtail

Thibaud Colas is prototyping wagtail-cli, a terminal interface over the v3 API for browsing and publishing pages, managing media, and scaffolding projects, partly so AI agents can reach the CMS without driving a browser. Try it with uv tool install wagtail-cli.

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Updates to Django

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

Last week we had 15 pull requests merged into Django by 12 different contributors - including 2 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Vimal Sahani and Dave Gaeddert for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

News in Django 6.1:

• Fixed a regression that caused __in lookups on annotations to erroneously return empty querysets and __range lookups to crash when passed an iterator (#37311).
• Fixed a regression where custom querysets used with Prefetch for forward foreign key or reverse one-to-one relationships were not routed using the parent queryset's database (#37300).
• Fixed a regression where an admin changelist search crashed when a search_fields entry used an __exact lookup on a field with choices, and where any search term matched all rows with a True value when an __exact lookup was used on a BooleanField (#37263).

News in Django 6.2:

• Omitting the tzinfo argument of Extract and Trunc database functions in migrations when USE_TZ is True is deprecated. Pass tzinfo explicitly to avoid inconsistent behavior if TIME_ZONE changes.
• Unsaved instances with a composite primary key or a db_default primary key no longer compare equal to other instances.

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Django Fellow Reports

Django Fellow Report - Jacob

An early report for about a day at my desk before heading out for some vacation. Six tickets reviewed, two authored, and the usual misc.

Django Fellow Report - Sarah

Seven tickets reviewed and another seven authored. Fellows sync, engaging with security issues, and website working group meeting.

Django Fellow Report - Natalia

Post-DjangoCon US week (including the emotional low 💔 that comes with it), with most of my time going into two things: first, iterating on a security report until we could confirm the issue, followed by developing a solution for it. I also continued the calendar versioning work around DEP 20 📅, including both the Django implementation and the release process updates. And, after iterating on a PR tutorial since Vigo, I finally got to see it through.

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Articles

Soft-deprecating re.match()

After 30 years of tripping people up by anchoring at the start of a string but not the end, re.match() is soft-deprecated in Python 3.15 in favor of the clearer re.prefixmatch().

1001 Django apps - The myth of a well-structured Django project

Ronny Vedrilla makes a thoughtful case for fewer Django apps: treating them as database namespaces rather than folders, starting with one domain plus a few "satellite" apps, and using import-linter to enforce the boundaries so they don't just become decoration.

Nifty Django Feature: Q() Objects

Assigning Q() objects to named variables makes filter logic readable and reusable, and passing several into one .filter() call avoids the extra joins you get from chaining.

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DjangoCon US Recaps

I Think That Feeling is Called Hope - Rachell Calhoun

Rachell Calhoun's DjangoCon US recap comes from inside the machinery: a third year chairing volunteers alongside Monica Oyugi, the first time all five Djangonaut Space founders stood in the same room, and open spaces on contributing to Django and on music. It ends on the case for volunteering, which she calls the fastest way she knows to stop feeling like a stranger at a conference.

TSBT73: Pumpkin Spice Bytes - Velda Kiara

Velda Kiara's update on DjangoCon US and related tech discoveries.

The Community Behind Django: My First DjangoCon US Recap and Highlights - Seyram Theresa

Theresa's very in-depth recap of DjangoCon US, from talks and keynotes to lightning talks, hallway convos, Chicago adventures, and more.

DjangoCon US 2026 | Chicago - Jon Gould

Recruiter Jon Gould's fourth DjangoCon, from the sponsor side of the table. His favorite parts were the unscheduled ones, like Aman Singh's early morning walks to the Bean.

Your City Is a Spatial Database and Nobody Told You - Jason Judkins

Jason Judkins's recap of a specific talk at DjangoCon US the other week, by Drishti Jain, highlighting how important shapes and GeoDjango are in the real world.

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Django Job Board

Two construction-AI roles at Provision and a backend seat on the platform that runs a family-owned cruise agency.

🆕 Machine Learning Engineer (Hybrid) at Provision

Django Developer at The Cruise Brothers

Full Stack Software Engineer (Hybrid) at Provision

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Projects

gettranslatebot/translatebot-django

Translates .po files and model fields with an LLM, but only the new and changed strings, using a TRANSLATING.md glossary in your repo to keep terminology consistent between runs. Placeholders and HTML tags survive intact.

lincolnloop/django-absurd

Plugs Absurd, a Postgres-native workflow engine, into Django's Tasks framework so background tasks and durable workflows run on the database connection you already have. Needs Django 6.0+ and psycopg 3.

11 Sep 2026 3:00pm GMT

Weeknotes (2026 week 37)

Tonight the temperature will drop to 10°C. I like it when it's hot, but now I really enjoy the slightly cooler temperatures in Europe. The last post was written in the middle of the heat wave. Yesterday we still had temperatures of over 30°C, which is a lot for September. But it will be the new normal. Next year probably won't be cooler.

Releases from the last four weeks

Lots of activity!

django-authlib

django-authlib 0.19 hardens the OAuth2 implementation a bit against replay attacks, provides utilities for removing password logins from the Django administration interface, and removes some of the confusion around role-based permissions. Upgrading is recommended.

django-content-editor

django-content-editor 9.0.2 fixes a bug in the function which allows cloning plugins from other regions. The bug was most visible when using something like django-json-schema-editor's plugins which are only proxy models. Their type was lost because I was using _base_manager, which didn't do the downcasting properly. (Sorry for the word salad.)

django-tree-queries

django-tree-queries 0.26.1 now uses annotations instead of .extra() to add the tree_path and tree_depth fields. This is great because the ORM knows these fields properly and we can now use e.g. .filter(tree_depth=1) instead of .extra(where=["..."]).

This change was mainly motivated by the renewed interest in deprecating .extra() at some unknown future point in time.

django-debug-toolbar

django-debug-toolbar 8.0 ships a new design! I again didn't contribute a lot, but I'm very proud that we were able to ship this as a team.

feincms3

feincms3 6.0.2 ships new utilities and, most importantly, fixes crashes when passing %00 to the root middleware. Using null bytes when comparing text field values on PostgreSQL leads to crashes. These are mostly an annoyance without data exposure, but definitely worth fixing.

The reason for the major version bump is that we finally dropped support for Django 3.2. That's the only breaking change, so upgrading should be easy for everyone.

django-js-asset

django-js-asset 4.1 fixes issues around lazy CSP nonce handling as well as the same issue Django itself had around rendering HTML-safe strings.

django-prose-editor

django-prose-editor 0.27.2 adds a default menu item for the code block extension and updates ProseMirror and Tiptap. It also adapts to the changed CSS of the Django 6.1 administration interface.

django-json-schema-editor

django-json-schema-editor 0.14.1 includes a fix for saving JSON schema fields when the schema doesn't contain any properties, plus fixes for the Django 6.1 admin CSS.

django-admin-ordering

django-admin-ordering 0.21 now activates orderables properly when the same model was orderable both in the change list and in the change form. I developed the fix for this in early 2025 but never released it. It's what happens.

feincms3-cookiecontrol

feincms3-cookiecontrol 1.7.2 includes bugfixes for edge cases while bringing down the byte count for the cookie banner and media embedding script from 3961 (in 1.7.1) to 3909 bytes.

feincms3-data

feincms3-data 0.11.1 brings fixes for handling unique fields when the same unique value is removed and then re-added with a different primary key.

django-translated-fields

django-translated-fields 0.14 contains no relevant code changes to the module itself at all. It was just time to release a new version more than two years after the last release to show that the project is still active and update the Trove classifiers.

09 Sep 2026 5:00pm GMT

Over the summer I published a series on coding tactics: the everyday craft of ifs, loops, and the reasoning behind them. Eight posts, one thesis, best read in order. This is the map.

08 Sep 2026 10:00am GMT