Django News - Python 3.14.0 beta 3 - Jun 20th 2025

Native connection pooling in Django 5.1 cuts 50- 70ms PostgreSQL connection latency, simplifies deployment without external tools, and boosts response times by 10–30%.

Combine middleware, a custom template tag, and client-side JavaScript to detect visitors timezone and consistently render Django DateTimeField values in users local time.

When extracting date subfields in Django with PostgreSQL, avoid applying AT TIME ZONE to DATE types under UTC session to prevent offset-based year miscalculations.

Using Django create with exception handling for unique constraint violations causes expensive rollbacks and bloat; use ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING via bulk_create(ignore_conflicts) or raw SQL.