Django News - Django 6.0 release candidate 1 released - Nov 21st 2025

Adam Johnson has posted his now annual listing of Django-related Black Friday deals with discounts on various books, packages, services, and more.

Learn how to use UUIDv7 today with stable releases of Python 3.14, Django 5.2 and PostgreSQL 18. A step by step guide showing how to generate UUIDv7 in Python, store them in Django models, use PostgreSQL native functions and build time ordered primary keys without writing SQL.

Carlton Gibson reflects on his continued involvement with Django (in so many ways!) and also actual plans to step away a bit over the coming year.

How opinionated tooling will save your day — or night.

A very good description of this long-standing security risk in web development.

Modern browsers support native JavaScript modules and CSS features, so Django projects can skip frontend build tools while using ManifestStaticFilesStorage for production.

Show how to extract and cast a JSON value in MySQL-backed Django models to annotate and sort datetime fields in the admin list view.

Practical overview of POST content types with Django examples showing request parsing and validation for form, multipart, JSON, NDJSON, text, XML, and binary.