May 14, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
For May 2025, we welcome Simon Charette as our DSF member of the month! ⭐ Simon Charette is a longtime Django contributor and community member. He served on the Django 5.x Steering Council and is part of the Security team and the Triage and Review team. He has been a DSF member since November 2014. You can learn more about Simon by visiting Simon's GitHub Profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Simon better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc) My name is S…
Read MoreMay 14, 2025 » Josh Karamuth » [Archived Version]
My latest attempt to make Linux work on a modern Nvidia laptop ended, predictably, with a return to Windows 11.
Read MoreMay 12, 2025 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
A summary of my experience at DjangoCon Europe 2025 told through the posts I published on Mastodon during the conference.
Read MoreMay 12, 2025 » Josh Karamuth » [Archived Version]
Coming from years of React development, I find Web Components incredibly powerful and standards-based, but writing them can feel surprisingly tedious.
Read MoreMay 10, 2025 » Josh Karamuth » [Archived Version]
From trusted sports nutrition to shady shortcuts: How MyProtein betrayed its customers with false claims and plummeting quality.
Read MoreMay 9, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Python 3.14.0 beta 1 is here! Python 3.14.0 beta1 brings deferred annotation evaluation, template string literals, Zstandard compression support, zero-overhead debugging, improved diagnostics, and invites Django projects to test compatibility. blogspot.com Python Software Foundation Names New Deputy Executive Director Python Software Foundation promotes Loren Crary to Deputy Executive Director, expanding her strategic planning, budget…
Read MoreMay 7, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing releases for Django 5.2.1, Django 5.1.9 and Django 4.2.21. These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible. CVE-2025-32873: Denial-of-service possibility in strip_tags() django.utils.html.strip_tags() would be slow to evaluate certain inputs containing large sequences of incomplete HTML tags. This function is used to implement the striptags templ…
Read MoreMay 6, 2025 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
Howto guide for upgrading PostgreSQL from version 16 to 17 on Ubuntu, after its upgrade from version 24.10 to 25.04 (Plucky Puffin).
Read MoreMay 2, 2025 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]
Adam Hill posted a question on Mastodon: he wants a model field that uses choices that doesn’t generate a database migration when the choices change. This post presents my answer. First, we’ll recap Django’s default behaviour with choice fields, a solution with callable choices, and the drawbacks …
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