16 Jan 2026
Django community aggregator: Community blog posts
Django News - Django Packages Refresh - Jan 16th 2026
News
New Django Packages
Django Packages has a fresh new look thanks to a redesign launched this week.
Releases
Python 3.15.0 alpha 5 (yes, another alpha!)
Python 3.15.0 alpha 5 was released as a developer preview, introducing UTF8 as the default encoding, improved JIT performance, a new sampling profiler, and APIs.
Django Software Foundation
DSF member of the month - Omar Abou Mrad
Omar Abou Mrad, DSF member of the month, is a longstanding Django contributor and Discord helper who created DryORM, used by Django contributors.
Python Software Foundation
Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security
Anthropic pledged $1.5 million to the PSF to fund CPython and PyPI security improvements, including proactive automated package review and the creation of malware datasets.
Wagtail CMS News
Five sustainable ways to build habits for learning Wagtail in 2026
Sustainable ways to learn Wagtail in 2026: pace docs, split tutorials, watch conference talks, try Wagtail AI experiments, and use playful test content.
What's new in Wagtail CMS
Wagtail 7.3 features autosave, StreamField block settings, and llms.txt docs adoption, presented in live demos with previews of Wagtail AI and roadmap.
Updates to Django
Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Pradhvan from Djangonaut Space! 🚀
Last week we had 16 pull requests merged into Django by 11 different contributors - including 2 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Amar and Andrea Zanotto for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board! 🥳
This week's Django highlights: 🦄
-
ExclusionConstraintnow supportsindex_type='hash'for enforcing uniqueness on large values like UIDs and URLs. (#36827) -
Contributors must now disclose AI tool usage and verify all generated output to maintain code quality. (#19594)
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Django's
directory_indexand built-in views now adapt to the user's system dark mode preferences. (#18801) 🚀
Django Newsletter
Articles
How a Single Test Revealed a Bug in Django 6.0
Django 6.0 querystring template tag lost multiple QueryDict values by iterating items() instead of using lists(), fixed by a contributed patch.
Documenting Django's technical culture
Propose codifying Django's technical culture into meta design documents that standardize configurable component patterns to guide contributors and smooth package adoption into core.
Python: introducing tprof, a targeting profiler
tprof is a Python 3.12+ targeting profiler that measures time only inside specified functions using sys.monitoring for low overhead and quick before and after comparisons.
The coolest feature in Python 3.14
Python 3.14's sys.remote_exec enables on demand injection of debugpy into running containerized processes, allowing zero preparation remote debugging of Django apps.
How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster -
packaging 26.0rc1 speeds up Version parsing up to 2x and SpecifierSet operations up to 3x, reducing dependency resolution costs in pip.
Matthias Kestenholz's My 2025 in review
Matthias recounts 2025 personal highlights, noting web and webapp work, cautious LLM adoption, React Native iOS development, and missed Django on the Med conference.
Welcome to My Corner of the Internet (And my Year in Review)!
Marlene summarizes her 2025: DjangoCon US keynote, LangChain and MCP contributions, local SLM experiments, OSS, developer experience, and much more.
Events
Preparing for conference sprints
Prepare newcomer-friendly tasks, refresh setup documentation, and publicize sprint participation to recruit contributors and achieve concrete project outcomes during conference sprints.
DjangoCon Europe 2026: Call for Volunteers
DjangoCon Europe 2026 is looking for volunteers in Athens, offering free admission, behind-the-scenes experience, and a chance to give back to the Django community.
Podcasts
Building a Django API Framework Faster than FastAPI - Farhan Ali Raza
Farhan is a software engineer from Pakistan who added template partials to Django 6.0 as part of a Google Summer of Code project. These days, he is pushing the boundaries of what Django can do in a host of exciting new projects, most notably django-bolt, a fully typed API framework for Django that is faster than FastAPI on common performance benchmarks.
Django Job Board
This week's Django Job Board features senior and founding-level roles across Django, Python, and full-stack engineering, from mission-driven work at the Internet Archive to fully remote startup opportunities in the UK and beyond.
Senior Django Developer at SKYCATCHFIRE 🆕
Senior Python Developer at Cial Dun & Bradstreet
Software Engineer at Internet Archive
Founding Full-Stack Senior Engineer (UK ONLY) - Fully Remote at MyDataValue
Django Newsletter
Projects
sparckles/robyn
Robyn is a Super Fast Async Python Web Framework with a Rust runtime.
FarhanAliRaza/django-repl
Run Django in the browser.
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16 Jan 2026 5:00pm GMT
15 Jan 2026
Django community aggregator: Community blog posts
Building a Django API Framework Faster than FastAPI - Farhan Ali Raza
🔗 Links
- Farhan's personal site and GitHub
- django-bolt
- django-repl
- turbo-orm
- bombardier
- Robyn web framework
- Reddit thread on Django Bolt vs Django Ninja vs FastAPI
- Developer Productivity AI Arena
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09 Jan 2026
Django community aggregator: Community blog posts
Django News - Django Bugfixes, Community Wins, and What’s NextIssue 319 - Jan 9th 2026
News
Django bugfix releases issued: 5.2.10, 6.0.1
Django released bugfix updates 5.2.10 and 6.0.1; release packages and signed checksums are available on the downloads page and PyPI.
DjangoCon US 2026 Call for Proposals
The CFP is now open until March 16, 2026. The conference this year will be September 14-18, again in Chicago.
Wagtail CMS News
Wagtail Wrapped 2025
Wagtail's 2025 recap highlights four releases culminating in 7.2 with a 7.0 LTS, deferred validation toward autosave, search revamp, and AI package improvements.
Updates to Django
Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀
Last week we had 6 pull requests merged into Django by 5 different contributors - including a first-time contributor! Congratulations to Mykhailo Havelia for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
- Fixed a bug in Django 5.2 where data exceeding
max_lengthwas silently truncated byQuerySet.bulk_create()on PostgreSQL (#33647). - Fixed a regression in Django 6.0 where the
Widget.use_fieldsetattribute ofClearableFileInputwas flipped fromFalsetoTrue(#36829).
Django Newsletter
Articles
Migrating From Celery to Django Tasks
Django's new Task Framework makes it surprisingly easy to replace Celery, covering configuration, task migration, queues, workers, and periodic jobs with simpler, built-in tooling.
My 2025 year in review - Andrew Miller
Andy's recap of regular blogging, conference attending, working on a financial services startup, using AI, publishing django-prodserver, and more in 2025.
Ceci n'est pas un blog
Russell Keith-Magee shares that receiving Django commit access 20 years ago set a trajectory that led to remote roles, startups, BeeWare, and continued open-source impact.
Open Source Is People: A Python & Django Year
Anthony Addae describes a 2025 journey from mentoring to becoming an active Django contributor and organizer, including participation in Djangonaut Space and a first Django core pull request.
Django Quiz 2025
Adam Johnson shares the 2025 edition of his annual Django pop quiz from Django London, inviting readers to test their Django knowledge with a mix of fun, community-focused, and framework-wide questions.
What async really means for your python web app? - hackeryarn
Async Python web benchmarks show that for most Django apps hitting a database, well-tuned synchronous setups with connection pooling outperform async frameworks, making async far from the free performance win many expect.
Events
Things I'd Like to See in a DjangoCon US 2026 Talk
Curated talk ideas for DjangoCon US 2026 CFP covering deployment, Django 6.x features, performance, security, HTMX, type checking, ML, and community topics.
Django Job Board
Explore senior Python and Django roles spanning enterprise, open web infrastructure, and a fully remote UK-based startup.
Senior Python Developer at Cial Dun & Bradstreet
Software Engineer at Internet Archive
Founding Full-Stack Senior Engineer (UK ONLY) - Fully Remote at MyDataValue
Django Newsletter
Projects
Django on the Fediverse - Mastodon Starter Pack
Curated starter pack of nonhuman Django accounts on the Fediverse listing official projects, conferences, media, and community hubs.
kraken-tech/django-pg-migration-tools
Extra functionalities to make Django migrations safer and more scalable.
amureki/django-devbar
Lightweight performance devbar for Django.
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09 Jan 2026 5:00pm GMT