Django News - DjangoCon Europe 2026 CFPs - Dec 12th 2025

A fast, step-by-step guide to building a holiday-movie RAG search app in 30 minutes using Django, MongoDB, Voyage AI embeddings, and LangChain.

DeprecationWarning is ignored by default, so Python libraries cannot rely on it for API breakage notices and should use visible warnings or stricter versioning.

Implement HTTP Basic authentication in Django by decoding Basic Authorization headers, securely validating credentials with secrets.compare_digest, and returning 401 with WWW authenticate header.

Explains Python object lifecycle, special methods like __repr__ and __iter__, attribute handling, and reference counting leading to garbage collection, with illustrative examples.