Django News - Happy Holidays and 95% there! - Dec 26th 2025

Django 6.0’s new tasks framework makes it possible to discover, inspect, and run tasks across your project without Celery, and this post shows how to programmatically find and execute those tasks using app imports and backend-aware Task inspection.

Django’s batteries included design lets developers move fast while still delivering secure, scalable, and production ready web applications.

PEP 770 is now live, enabling standardized SBOMs inside Python wheels, with early adoption across PyPI, auditwheel, Fedora, and Red Hat to improve supply chain transparency and reduce vulnerability scan false positives.

A beginner-friendly walkthrough that shows how to set up a clean Django project from scratch using virtual environments, a flat project layout, and a quick sanity check with the development server.

Personal recap of DjangoCon Africa 2025 highlighting community driven talks, accessible Django contributions, secure Metabase embeddings, workshops that enabled beginners to contribute to open source.

A solo Django developer reflects on a packed 2025, covering consistent blogging, AI-assisted product building, community involvement at DjangoCon Europe, and lessons learned balancing startups, client work, and open source.