Sept. 11, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]
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. Django Software Foundation Django S…
Read MoreSept. 10, 2026 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
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. You get PyCharm at 30% off, and JetBrains donates 100% of your purchase or renewal to the DSF. This is one of the DSF's bigger fundraisers of the year, and we appreciate everyone who takes a look. The Executive Director search also closes on September 14, and we are curious to see who reach…
Read MoreSept. 9, 2026 » Matthias Kestenholz » [Archived Version]
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…
Read MoreSept. 9, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
Part of the Nifty Django features series: Django's Q() objects allow you to some fancy filtering!
Read MoreSept. 8, 2026 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The Django Software Foundation is looking for people to join the Fundraising Working Group. This is a particularly interesting time to get involved. The DSF has raised its 2026 fundraising goal to $500,000. That funding is what allows us to continue supporting the Django Fellows, Django Girls, community events, Djangonaut Space, infrastructure, and the many other things that keep the Django ecosystem going. It also gives the DSF the room to do something new: hire its first Executive Director. Y…
Read MoreSept. 4, 2026 » Simon Willison's Weblog: django » [Archived Version]
Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI. This time it was agents engaged in some sort of web research benchmark, so they had (supposedly) controlled access to the Web. The agents figured out they could update public Wikis and spent weeks exchanging thousands of messages with each other to collaborate on the benchmark. This…
Read MoreSept. 4, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Django Developers Survey 2026 results The fifth annual survey run with JetBrains is out, with the full report, infographics, and a companion writeup titled "The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back." Help test Python 3.15! Python release manager Hugo van Kemende kindly requests you add 3.15 and allow-prereleases: true to your GitHub Actions matrix and publish wheels before the October 1 release. Releases Django bugfix release issued: 6.1.1 Twelve fixes, nearly all of them 6.1 regressio…
Read MoreSept. 2, 2026 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
Today we've issued the 6.1.1 bugfix release. The release package and checksums are available from our downloads page, as well as from the Python Package Index. The PGP key ID used for this release is Jacob Walls: 131403F4D16D8DC7
Read MoreSept. 2, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
Part of the Nifty Django features series: You can hack Django's Index class to define custom migration operations on your model.
Read MoreSept. 2, 2026 » Software Crafts » [Archived Version]
Is it time for Django to have a deployment API...
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