Django News - Django 6.x Steering Council Candidates - Dec 13th 2024
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There are 12 individuals who have chosen to stand for election and written statements of intent. Existing individual members are eligible to vote.
Voting is open until 23:59 on December 17, 2024 Anywhere on Earth.
Congratulations to fellow Djangonauts Jay Miller, Kojo Idrissa, and Trey Hunner, who are now Python Fellows.
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Meeting minutes for DSF Board monthly meeting, December 10, 2024.
New DSF Board Member Paolo Melchiorre describes his first meeting and a behind-the-scenes peak at how Django is actually run.
Updates to Django
Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Velda Kiara from Djangonaut Space!
Last week we had 20 pull requests merged into Django by 15 different contributors - including 3 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Oleg Sverdlov, Ülgen Sarıkavak, and Joel Burns for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
The following security issues have been addressed:
- Potential denial-of-service in
django.utils.html.strip_tags() - Potential SQL injection in
HasKey(lhs, rhs)on Oracle
The affected versions are: Django main, Django 5.1, Django 5.0 and Django 4.2. You are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
Other updates include: added id to ErrorList class and template for 5.2, and restored refreshing of relations when fields deferred in 5.1.4.
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