Sept. 15, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Status of 5.0 alpha release. Last call for new Django 5.0 features. If you have a specific PR you would like prioritized, please let them know by Monday, September 18, 2023. djangoproject.com Updates to Django We are nearly at the 5.0 feature freeze and still so much is happening! Last week we had 11 pull requests merged into Django by 8 different contributors - including 2 first time contributors! Congratulations to Oguzhan Ak…
Read MoreSept. 14, 2023 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]
Django’s template engine has an underappreciated builtins option that selects libraries to preload in every template. Making a library a builtin avoids the need for an explicit {% load %} tag whenever you use its tags or filters. Putting key libraries in builtins can shorten your templates and make development a …
Read MoreSept. 14, 2023 » Django Beats » [Archived Version]
Mariusz Felisiak, a Django and Python contributor and a Django Fellow, explores how to make smooth blue-green deployments using advanced migration tools. Django on Fly.io is pretty sweet! Check it out: you can be up and running on Fly.io in just minutes. Blue-green deployment is a technique of releasing changes to a project by gradually transferring users to a new version. It provides an isolation between the current “blue” environment and the new “green” environment. Blue nodes are sequential…
Read MoreSept. 8, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News 2023 Django Developers Survey The DSF is partnering with JetBrains to run the 2023 Django Developers Survey. The survey is an essential metric of Django usage and helps guide future technical and community decisions and is open until October 1st, 2023, Anywhere on Earth (AoE). djangoproject.com Django security releases issued: 4.2.5, 4.1.11, and 3.2.21 These security releases address a potential denial of service vulnerability. We enc…
Read MoreSept. 7, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we worked on the inbound hook to receive email responses from SendGrid using the service’s Inbound Parse feature. We worked through the configuration and addressed the security concerns with opening up a public webhook.
Read MoreSept. 6, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
DjangoCon US 2023 is just about here! While the conference isn’t until Oct 16-20, we’re sharing this now because discounted hotel rooms are filling up fast and will go away entirely on September 15th. If you can’t make it in person this year, we also have online tickets: https://ti.to/defna/djangocon-us-2023. All talks will be available online via the LoudSwarm platform, so you won’t miss any action. We have eleven exclusive talks for our online attendees, so you get more content. Online ticke…
Read MoreSept. 6, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
It's been a pretty tough year. As I've written about before, my son has had a long running illness, that has affected him for about 18 months now. Last academic year he wasn't able to return to school at all after Christmas, and has had various stays in hospital in the intervening period. Over the summer he's made good progress, and this morning, now, he's gone off in the car with his siblings, for the first day back at school. (Normally they'd walk, but we're not quite there.) I don't know …
Read MoreSept. 5, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The DSF is once again partnering with JetBrains to run the 2023 Django Developers Survey. Please take a moment to fill it out. The survey is an important metric of Django usage and helps guide future technical and community decisions. The survey will be open until October 1st, 2023 Anywhere on Earth (AoE). After the survey is over, the aggregated results will be published. JetBrains will randomly choose 10 winners (from those who complete the survey in its entirety), who will each receive a $10…
Read MoreSept. 4, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing Django 4.2.5, Django 4.1.11, and Django 3.2.21. These releases addresses the security issue detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible. CVE-2023-41164: Potential denial of service vulnerability in django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri() django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri() was subject to potential denial of service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode characters. Th…
Read MoreSept. 1, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News The PSF has been authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) The Python Software Foundation is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), enhancing the security response process for key Python projects, ensuring quicker CVE ID allocations, and offering consistent vulnerability disclosures led by their dedicated security team. blogspot.com Djangonaut Space Interest Form If you'd like to join or mentor the Djangonaut Spac…
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