March 8, 2026 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
For March 2026, we welcome Theresa Seyram Agbenyegah as our DSF member of the month! ⭐ Theresa is a passionate community builder serving in the DSF Events Support Working Group. She has demonstrated strong leadership by taking on roles such as LOC Programmes Lead at PyCon Africa 2024 and Programs Chair for PyCon Ghana 2025. She also organized DjangoGirls events across multiple PyCons, including PyCon Ghana 2022 and PyCon Africa 2024. You can learn more about Theresa by visiting Theresa's Linke…
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I received this bug report in a toot from a Fedidevs user: Dear @fedidevs I think there is a bug with the starterpacks: When in “Add accounts” I search for an account that is already in the Pack, the tick-box can show empty. When I click it, it will switch to ticked, but the account is actually removed from the pack. This is also confirmed by the number of accounts in the pack going down.
Read MoreMarch 6, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Django security releases issued: 6.0.3, 5.2.12, and 4.2.29 Django 6.0.3, 5.2.12, and 4.2.29 were released to fix two security issues: URLField DoS on Windows and file permission race conditions. djangoproject.com Releases Python 3.12.13, 3.11.15 and 3.10.20 are now available! Python 3.12.13, 3.11.15, and 3.10.20 fix security and denial-of-service vulnerabilities in email, HTTP cookies, WSGI headers, XML parsing, and SSL. …
Read MoreMarch 3, 2026 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing releases for Django 6.0.3, Django 5.2.12, and Django 4.2.29. These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible. CVE-2026-25673: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in URLField via Unicode normalization on Windows The django.forms.URLField form field's to_python() method used urllib.parse.urlsplit() to determine whether to prepend a URL scheme…
Read MoreMarch 3, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
One thing I struggled with during my career is a lack of mentorship. I learned how to take kernels of wisdom from a variety of sources, mash them all together to replace a formal mentor.
Read MoreMarch 2, 2026 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]
In my last post I mentioned that software engineering is going to be more and more AI driven and since then I’ve begrudgingly accepted this new reality. The era of handcrafted code is mostly coming to an end. I say mostly because I still believe there will always be places in our future codebases that require manual intervention. Little surgical removals and additions around the parts where the LLMs get confused and start spinning their wheels without results.
Read MoreMarch 2, 2026 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]
In my last post I mentioned that software engineering is going to be more and more AI driven and since then I’ve begrudgingly accepted this new reality. The era of handcrafted code is mostly coming to an end. I say mostly because I still believe there will always be places in our future codebases that require manual intervention. Little surgical removals and additions around the parts where the LLMs get confused and start spinning their wheels without results.
Read MoreMarch 2, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
A review of Colleen Dunlap's DjangoCon US talk on introducing unit testing and how to write tests with Django.
Read MoreMarch 2, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
A review of the book "Purple Cow: Transform your business by being remarkable" by Seth Godin
Read MoreFeb. 27, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Google Summer of Code 2026 with Django All the information you need to apply for Django's 21st consecutive year in the program. djangoproject.com Django Software Foundation DSF member of the month - Baptiste Mispelon Baptiste is a long-time Django and Python contributor who co-created the Django Under the Hood conference series and serves on the Ops team maintaining its infrastructure. He has been a DSF member since November 201…
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