| in blog | Django News |
|---|---|
| published date | 2026-01-16 |
| original entry | Django Packages Refresh |
Django Packages has a fresh new look thanks to a redesign launched this week.
Python 3.15.0 alpha 5 was released as a developer preview, introducing UTF8 as the default encoding, improved JIT performance, a new sampling profiler, and APIs.
Omar Abou Mrad, DSF member of the month, is a longstanding Django contributor and Discord helper who created DryORM, used by Django contributors.
Anthropic pledged $1.5 million to the PSF to fund CPython and PyPI security improvements, including proactive automated package review and the creation of malware datasets.
Sustainable ways to learn Wagtail in 2026: pace docs, split tutorials, watch conference talks, try Wagtail AI experiments, and use playful test content.
Wagtail 7.3 features autosave, StreamField block settings, and llms.txt docs adoption, presented in live demos with previews of Wagtail AI and roadmap.
Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Pradhvan from Djangonaut Space! 🚀
Last week we had 16 pull requests merged into Django by 11 different contributors - including 2 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Amar and Andrea Zanotto for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board! 🥳
This week's Django highlights: 🦄
ExclusionConstraint now supports index_type='hash' for enforcing uniqueness on large values like UIDs and URLs. (#36827)
Contributors must now disclose AI tool usage and verify all generated output to maintain code quality. (#19594)
Django's directory_index and built-in views now adapt to the user's system dark mode preferences. (#18801) 🚀
Django 6.0 querystring template tag lost multiple QueryDict values by iterating items() instead of using lists(), fixed by a contributed patch.
Propose codifying Django's technical culture into meta design documents that standardize configurable component patterns to guide contributors and smooth package adoption into core.
tprof is a Python 3.12+ targeting profiler that measures time only inside specified functions using sys.monitoring for low overhead and quick before and after comparisons.
Python 3.14's sys.remote_exec enables on demand injection of debugpy into running containerized processes, allowing zero preparation remote debugging of Django apps.
packaging 26.0rc1 speeds up Version parsing up to 2x and SpecifierSet operations up to 3x, reducing dependency resolution costs in pip.
Matthias recounts 2025 personal highlights, noting web and webapp work, cautious LLM adoption, React Native iOS development, and missed Django on the Med conference.
Marlene summarizes her 2025: DjangoCon US keynote, LangChain and MCP contributions, local SLM experiments, OSS, developer experience, and much more.
Prepare newcomer-friendly tasks, refresh setup documentation, and publicize sprint participation to recruit contributors and achieve concrete project outcomes during conference sprints.
DjangoCon Europe 2026 is looking for volunteers in Athens, offering free admission, behind-the-scenes experience, and a chance to give back to the Django community.
Farhan is a software engineer from Pakistan who added template partials to Django 6.0 as part of a Google Summer of Code project. These days, he is pushing the boundaries of what Django can do in a host of exciting new projects, most notably django-bolt, a fully typed API framework for Django that is faster than FastAPI on common performance benchmarks.
This week’s Django Job Board features senior and founding-level roles across Django, Python, and full-stack engineering, from mission-driven work at the Internet Archive to fully remote startup opportunities in the UK and beyond.
Senior Django Developer at SKYCATCHFIRE 🆕
Senior Python Developer at Cial Dun & Bradstreet
Software Engineer at Internet Archive
Founding Full-Stack Senior Engineer (UK ONLY) - Fully Remote at MyDataValue
Robyn is a Super Fast Async Python Web Framework with a Rust runtime.
Run Django in the browser.