Django News - DjangoCon US CFP - Mar 14th 2025

Advanced Django Form techniques allow integration of extra fields with ModelForm, styling with crispy, and leveraging Bootstrap accordions to conditionally display new category fields.

Manually updating pinned dependencies using custom tools like gha-update and pre-commit reduces scheduled PR noise and streamlines library maintenance in Python projects.

Resolve a Kamal proxy bug affecting Django's APPEND_SLASH handling by replacing CommonMiddleware with a subclass that disables chunked encoding for redirects.

A practical guide to generating dynamic Open Graph images in Django using Playwright to enhance social media link previews.