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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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Django News - Google Summer of Code 2026 with Django - Feb 27th 2026

Feb. 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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Google Summer of Code 2026 with Django

Feb. 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. 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 2014. You can learn more about Baptiste by visiting Baptiste's website and his GitH…

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Django News - Contributor Covenant, Security Team Expansion, and Django 6.1 Updates - Feb 20th 2026

Feb. 20, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

Introduction 📣 Sponsor Django News Reach 4,305 engaged Django developers with a single weekly placement. High open rates. Real clicks. Only two sponsor spots per issue. 👉 Book your spot django-news.com Django Software Foundation Plan to Adopt Contributor Covenant 3 as Django’s New Code of Conduct Django establishes a transparent community-driven process and advances the adoption of Contributor Covenant 3 as its Code of Conduct with …

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Contributor Covenant, Security Team Expansion, and Django 6.1 Updates

Feb. 20, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

Introduction 📣 Sponsor Django News Reach 4,305 engaged Django developers with a single weekly placement. High open rates. Real clicks. Only two sponsor spots per issue. 👉 Book your spot Django Software Foundation Plan to Adopt Contributor Covenant 3 as Django’s New Code of Conduct Django establishes a transparent community-driven process and advances the adoption of Contributor Covenant 3 as its Code of Conduct with staged policy updates. Python Software Foundation Join the Python Security Res…

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Django News - The Post-Heroku Django World - Feb 13th 2026

Feb. 13, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Django Steering Council 2025 Year in Review They've been busy! A new-features repo, Community Ecosystem page, administrative bits, and more. djangoproject.com Read the Docs: Making search faster for all projects Read the Docs massively improved search latency by reindexing into multiple shards, tuning Elasticsearch queries and client, and fixing Django ORM N+1s and caching. readthedocs.com Releases Pytho…

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The Post-Heroku Django World

Feb. 13, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Django Steering Council 2025 Year in Review They've been busy! A new-features repo, Community Ecosystem page, administrative bits, and more. Read the Docs: Making search faster for all projects Read the Docs massively improved search latency by reindexing into multiple shards, tuning Elasticsearch queries and client, and fixing Django ORM N+1s and caching. Releases Python Insider: Python 3.15.0 alpha 6 Python 3.15.0a6 preview highlights a new low-overhead sampling profiler, UTF-8 default e…

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Django News - Django security releases issued: 6.0.2, 5.2.11, and 4.2.28 - Feb 6th 2026

Feb. 6, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Django security releases issued: 6.0.2, 5.2.11, and 4.2.28 Django releases 6.0.2, 5.2.11, and 4.2.28 patch multiple security bugs, including PostGIS SQL injection, ASGI and Truncator denial of service, and timing and user enumeration. djangoproject.com Django Commons: We're recruiting new admins! Django Commons is recruiting new admins to manage projects, membership, governance, and infrastructure; apply via the Admin Interest Form by…

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