Django News - Django security releases issued: 5.1.1, 5.0.9, and 4.2.16 - Sep 6th 2024
News
Two security fixes were just released. As always, the best security measure you can take is to always be on the latest version of Django.
Session 3 applications are now open until September 14th.
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Articles
Former Django Fellow Carlton Gibson has a lengthy and well-reasoned take on the auth.User model, pointing out its current limitations and forcefully arguing for some changes in future releases.
Extending the Django OAuth Toolkit's application model mid-project can cause significant challenges, but Mariatta walks us through it.
gunicorn+gevent and Celery can be tricky. There is a setting that is often missed that keeps your Redis connections from increasing until they reach the maximum.
Learn how to implement custom search functionality on a Django CMS 4 site using Django Haystack for dynamic content indexing.
A guide to navigating Django ORM's power and pitfalls, with tips on querying, performance, and avoiding common gotchas.
Adam Johnson reminds us that when you write a queryset with filter() you do not need to use all().
Events
The 9 talks for this year's conference are now live. It's a very full day.
DCUS is coming soon, September 22-27, again in Durham, NC. Tickets for tutorials, talks, and sprints are still available.
Tutorials
A step-by-step configuration and implementation guide to Django's built-in redirects app, useful for using the admin to manage all your URL redirects.
We'll use Django, htmx, and Stripe to create a one-product e-commerce website.
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Projects
Update GitHub Actions version pins in GitHub workflow files. Even with grouped, monthly updates, Dependabot PRs can still be noisy, especially for smaller or stable projects. This tool allows updating pins locally, when the maintainer wants to.
A Django app for managing appointment scheduling with ease and flexibility.
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