Feb. 11, 2026 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The members of the Steering Council wanted to provide you all with a quick TL;DR of our work in 2025. First off, we were elected at the end of 2024 and got started in earnest in early 2025 with the mission to revive and dramatically increase the role of the Steering Council. We're meeting for a video conference at least monthly, you can deep dive into the meeting notes to see what we've been up to. We also have set up Slack channels we use to communicate in between meetings to keep acti…
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A review of Kojo Idrissa's PyDX talk on the topic of diversity and inclusion within technical communities.
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A review of the book "Accelerate: the science behind DevOps: building and scaling high performing technology organizations" by Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble and Gene Kim
Read MoreFeb. 6, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Django security releases issued: 6.0.2, 5.2.11, and 4.2.28 Django releases 6.0.2, 5.2.11, and 4.2.28 patch multiple security bugs, including PostGIS SQL injection, ASGI and Truncator denial of service, and timing and user enumeration. djangoproject.com Django Commons: We're recruiting new admins! Django Commons is recruiting new admins to manage projects, membership, governance, and infrastructure; apply via the Admin Interest Form by…
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Ever wonder why you need to use safe=False to return arrays of JSON object in JsonResponse? Welp, it's because of ECMAScript 4 and you don't have to worry these days.
Read MoreFeb. 4, 2026 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
Yesterday, Django issued security releases mitigating six vulnerabilities of varying severity. Django is a secure web framework, and that hasn’t changed. What feels new is the remarkable consistency across the reports we receive now. Almost every report now is a variation on a prior vulnerability. Instead of uncovering new classes of issues, these reports explore how an underlying pattern from a recent advisory might surface in a similar code path or under a slightly different configuration. Th…
Read MoreFeb. 4, 2026 » Latest Django Videos » [Archived Version]
Wagtail is great for content editors to author pages, but what about automation? Whether you're writing automated tests, or migrating content from another platform, you'll want to write code that creates and updates pages, snippets, users and other things. - How Wagtail models page content, in brief (multi-table inheritance, treebeard, revisions, Streamfield, translations). - Creating and updating pages. - Migrating content: handling concurrency issues and circular references. - Testing: cachi…
Read MoreFeb. 3, 2026 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing releases for Django 6.0.2, Django 5.2.11, and Django 4.2.28. These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible. CVE-2025-13473: Username enumeration through timing difference in mod_wsgi authentication handler The django.contrib.auth.handlers.modwsgi.check_password() function for authentication via mod_wsgi allowed remote attackers to enumerate use…
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A review of Sarah Boyce's DjangoCon Europe 2025 keynote on the topic of code reviews for the Django framework.
Read MoreJan. 30, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Python Developers Survey 2026 This is the ninth iteration of the official Python Developers Survey. It is run by the PSF (Python Software Foundation) to highlight the current state of the Python ecosystem and help with future goals. Note that the official Django Developers Survey is currently being finalized and will come out hopefully in March or April. jetbrains.com The French government is building an entire productivity ecosystem using D…
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