Blog: Django News

Issue 333: Django News - 30% Off PyCharm Pro – 100% for Django

April 17, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

Django News Newsletter is moving! Just a quick heads up. We’re planning to move our newsletter to a new platform next week. If things look a little different when it shows up, it’s still us. News PyCharm & Django annual fundraiser JetBrains and the Django Software Foundation team up again to offer 30% off PyCharm while matching donations to fund Django’s core development and community programs. djangoproject.com   New Technical Governance - request for community …

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DjangoCon Europe Next Week!

April 10, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

Introduction Hi everyone, sorry for the late send of Issue #331. Last week, our provider, Curated, which is owned by Buttondown, went down and wasn’t able to send our newsletter for six days. You might have received it yesterday, but not everyone did. It’s the first time in several years we haven’t been able to land in your inbox. We’ve been in touch with their support all week and appreciate your patience while this gets sorted out. In the meantime, Will and I are looking at other provider opt…

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Supply Chain Wake-Up Call

April 3, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Incident Report: LiteLLM/Telnyx supply-chain attacks, with guidance A recent supply chain attack on popular PyPI packages exposed how quickly malware can spread through unpinned dependencies—and why practices like dependency locking and cooldowns are now essential for Python developers. The PyCon US 2026 schedule is live 🌴🐍 plus security updates, community programs & more PyCon US 2026 heads to Long Beach with its schedule now live, alongside major Python ecosystem updates spanning securit…

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Balancing the AI Flood in Django

March 27, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Calling for research participants from Django, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Next.js and Spring Boot communities Former DSF President and researcher Anna Makarudze is seeking Django developers to share insights on dependency vulnerabilities and supply chain risks in open source. Djangonaut Space News Djangonaut Space Financial Report 2025 Djangonaut Space’s 2025 report highlights a community-powered year of $2.2k in donations funding tools and conference access, while setting sights on sending c…

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Django News - Sunsetting Jazzband - Mar 20th 2026

March 20, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Sunsetting Jazzband After more than a decade maintaining 80+ Python projects, Jazzband is winding down as AI-generated spam and long-standing sustainability challenges make its open, shared-maintenance model no longer viable. jazzband.co Astral to join OpenAI Astral, creators of Ruff and uv, are joining OpenAI’s Codex team to push the future of AI-powered Python development while continuing to support their open source tools. …

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Sunsetting Jazzband

March 20, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Sunsetting Jazzband After more than a decade maintaining 80+ Python projects, Jazzband is winding down as AI-generated spam and long-standing sustainability challenges make its open, shared-maintenance model no longer viable. Astral to join OpenAI Astral, creators of Ruff and uv, are joining OpenAI’s Codex team to push the future of AI-powered Python development while continuing to support their open source tools. Wagtail CMS News Wagtail Security team no longer accepts GPG-encrypted email…

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Django News - 21 PRs in One Week to Django Core! - Mar 13th 2026

March 13, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News The Call for Proposals for DjangoCon US 2026 has been extended one week! DjangoCon US 2026 has extended its Call for Proposals deadline by one week to March 23 at 11 AM CDT, giving prospective speakers a little more time to submit their talk ideas. djangocon.us CPython: 36 Years of Source Code An analysis of the growth of CPython's codebase from its first commits to the present day python.org Releases Py…

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21 PRs in One Week to Django Core!

March 13, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News The Call for Proposals for DjangoCon US 2026 has been extended one week! DjangoCon US 2026 has extended its Call for Proposals deadline by one week to March 23 at 11 AM CDT, giving prospective speakers a little more time to submit their talk ideas. CPython: 36 Years of Source Code An analysis of the growth of CPython's codebase from its first commits to the present day Releases Python 3.15.0 alpha 7 Python 3.15.0 alpha 7 introduces explicit lazy imports, a new frozendict type, improved pro…

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Django News - Django Security Fixes, Python Releases, and New Tools - Mar 6th 2026

March 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. …

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Django Security Fixes, Python Releases, and New Tools

March 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. 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. Python Software Foundation PEP 827 – Type Manipulation PEP 827 proposes extensive type-…

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