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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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