Sept. 26, 2025

Django News - django.tasks exists - Sep 26th 2025

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News

Django Fellow Sarah Boyce - Maternity leave announcement

At the end of this month, Sarah will be stepping away from her role as Django Fellow for some time while out on maternity leave.

djangoproject.com

PostgreSQL 18 Released!

PostgreSQL 18 delivers major performance and usability improvements, including a new asynchronous I/O system with up to 3× faster reads, less disruptive major version upgrades, and smarter indexing and query optimizations.

postgresql.org

Nanodjango.dev is live!

A dedicated website for the nanodjango project that puts full Django in a single file. Automatically convert it to a full project.

nanodjango.dev

Updates to Django

Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space ! 🚀

Last week we had 28 pull requests merged into Django by 19 different contributors - including 5 first-time contributors! Congratulations to jrsenthil-kumar2312, Saksham Jain, Caitlin B, 윤수진, and DaniF for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

News for 6.0:

Django now includes a built-in Tasks framework for running code outside the HTTP request–response cycle. (ticket: 35859 )
The new Lexeme <django.contrib.postgres.search.Lexeme> expression for full text search provides fine-grained control over search terms.

News for 6.1:

The class django.contrib.contenttypes.fields.GenericForeignKey now uses a separate descriptor class: the private GenericForeignKeyDescriptor.

It's also fixed a regression in Django 5.2 that reduced the color contrast of the chosen label of filter_horizontal and filter_vertical widgets within a TabularInline. (ticket:36601)

Django Newsletter

Wagtail CMS

Guidance for AI-led contributions

New contributor guidelines in the generative AI age.

wagtail.org

Articles

django.tasks exists

The first PR to implement DEP 14 ("Background workers") has been merged into the main branch of the Django code base, all 3094 lines of it.

theorangeone.net

Sharing a mutable reference with Python

As part of Lily's ongoing project to reimplement Django’s templating language in Rust, she has been adding support for custom template tags.

lilyf.org

Use trimmed in Django blocktranslate

How Django’s blocktranslate tag can introduce unwanted whitespace into translation strings and shows how using the trimmed option solves the problem.

marijkeluttekes.dev

Playwright & pytest techniques that bring me joy

Give it a read! Maybe these six techniques will bring you joy too. You can't go wrong with being able to write better tests, faster.

better-simple.com

What's in my Copilot instructions file, and why?

What’s in my agent instructions file, why it’s structured the way it is, and how it differs from standard Python/Django agents guideline templates.

grahamknapp.com

Django: Introducing django-watchfiles, for more efficient runserver autoreloading

Adam Johnson's intro post on django-watchfiles, a more efficient way to autoreload the built-in Django runserver command.

adamj.eu

Django Fellow Report

Django Fellow Report - Jacob Walls

Quite the busy week for Jacob! Feature freeze week brought some excitement with last-minute tidy-ups to land for the tasks interface and for refreshing model fields assigned expressions on save(). Now’s the time to run project test suites against the 6.0 alpha and report issues!

djangoproject.com