Django News - Official MongoDB Backend Support - Feb 7th 2025

Jib Adegunloye is the lead software developer on the official MongoDB database backend for Django. He writes here about the long process of brining official support to life.

Carlton Gibson shares some thoughts from the Django 6.x Steering Council.

MP 133: Naming things is hard, but renaming things can be even harder.

I've been steadily working through the remaining issues that should be closed before the 1.0 release of django-simple-deploy. One of the last things to address involves reconsidering a name that's used throughout the project.

Renaming a

A very in-depth guide on everything related to Django templates, including the different types and how to use them.

Django 5.2 introduces a new helper method, body_contains(), that simplifies unit-testing email content, making it easier to assert text-based content across plain-text and HTML emails.