Nov. 4, 2023 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
A guided deep dive into Django's source code to understand why your application is failing CSRF validation.
Read MoreNov. 3, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Django security releases issued: 4.2.7, 4.1.13, and 3.2.23 A new security release for a potential denial of service vulnerability in UsernameField on Windows. As ever, the best security practice is to keep your Django version up to date with the latest release. djangoproject.com Python Software Foundation News: Announcing our new Community Communications Manager! The PSF's first Communications Manager will establish a PSF communicatio…
Read MoreNov. 2, 2023 » Matthias Kestenholz: Posts about Django » [Archived Version]
Weeknotes (2023 week 44)Unmaintained but maintained packages There’s a discussion going on in the django-mptt issue tracker about the maintenance state of django-mptt. I have marked the project as unmaintained in March 2021 and haven’t regretted this decision at all. I haven’t had to fix inconsistencies in the tree structure once since switching to django-tree-queries. And if that wasn’t enough, I get little but only warm and thankful feedback for the latter, so that’s extra nice. Despite marki…
Read MoreNov. 2, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we cleaned up the email sending job. I had to make some changes based on some discoveries that I made while researching how to track responses and associate the journal entries back to the user. While doing this clean up, we added a new Prompt model to make the email sending job idempotent for each day.
Read MoreNov. 1, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing Django 4.2.7, Django 4.1.13, and Django 3.2.23. These releases addresses the security issue detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible. CVE-2023-46695: Potential denial of service vulnerability in UsernameField on Windows The NFKC normalization is slow on Windows. As a consequence, django.contrib.auth.forms.UsernameField was subject to a potential denial of service attack via certain…
Read MoreOct. 27, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Django 5.0 beta 1 released Django 5.0 beta 1 is now available. It represents the second stage in the 5.0 release cycle and is an opportunity for you to try out the changes coming in Django 5.0. djangoproject.com The Ruff Formatter: An extremely fast, Black-compatible Python formatter Ruff added a Black linter/formatter that is over 30x faster than existing tools while maintaining >99.9% compatibility with Black. If you haven't used Ru…
Read MoreOct. 25, 2023 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
A single file Django micro project created for demonstration purposes to be used in the same way as other Python frameworks.
Read MoreOct. 23, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
Django 5.0 beta 1 is now available. It represents the second stage in the 5.0 release cycle and is an opportunity for you to try out the changes coming in Django 5.0. Django 5.0 brings a deluge of exciting new features which you can read about in the in-development 5.0 release notes. Only bugs in new features and regressions from earlier versions of Django will be fixed between now and the 5.0 final release. Translations will be updated following the "string freeze", which occurs when the relea…
Read MoreOct. 20, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]
Django Software Foundation Announcing DSF Working Groups Previously, you more or less needed to be a board member to help; now, anyone can join — or form — a working group to further the DSF’s mission. djangoproject.com 2024 DSF Board Nominations Nominations are open for the 2024 Django Software Foundation Board of Directors. Anyone can apply. djangoproject.com Djangonaut Space now accepting applications for our ne…
Read MoreOct. 19, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
We are thrilled to announce that Django has a mentorship program, and that we're open for applicants for our next cohort! Djangonaut Space is an organization working to onboard and develop open source code contributors to Django and beyond. People sustain the framework and its ecosystem. By inviting more people to participate in this community, and giving them the resources and support to succeed, we aim to develop the future leaders of Django. Our journey began with our pilot “Djangonaut Space…
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