| in blog | Django News |
|---|---|
| published date | 2026-01-09 |
| original entry | Django Bugfixes, Community Wins, and What’s NextIssue 319 |
Django released bugfix updates 5.2.10 and 6.0.1; release packages and signed checksums are available on the downloads page and PyPI.
The CFP is now open until March 16, 2026. The conference this year will be September 14-18, again in Chicago.
Wagtail's 2025 recap highlights four releases culminating in 7.2 with a 7.0 LTS, deferred validation toward autosave, search revamp, and AI package improvements.
Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀
Last week we had 6 pull requests merged into Django by 5 different contributors - including a first-time contributor! Congratulations to Mykhailo Havelia for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
Django’s new Task Framework makes it surprisingly easy to replace Celery, covering configuration, task migration, queues, workers, and periodic jobs with simpler, built-in tooling.
Andy's recap of regular blogging, conference attending, working on a financial services startup, using AI, publishing django-prodserver, and more in 2025.
Russell Keith-Magee shares that receiving Django commit access 20 years ago set a trajectory that led to remote roles, startups, BeeWare, and continued open-source impact.
Anthony Addae describes a 2025 journey from mentoring to becoming an active Django contributor and organizer, including participation in Djangonaut Space and a first Django core pull request.
Adam Johnson shares the 2025 edition of his annual Django pop quiz from Django London, inviting readers to test their Django knowledge with a mix of fun, community-focused, and framework-wide questions.
Async Python web benchmarks show that for most Django apps hitting a database, well-tuned synchronous setups with connection pooling outperform async frameworks, making async far from the free performance win many expect.
Curated talk ideas for DjangoCon US 2026 CFP covering deployment, Django 6.x features, performance, security, HTMX, type checking, ML, and community topics.
Explore senior Python and Django roles spanning enterprise, open web infrastructure, and a fully remote UK-based startup.
Senior Python Developer at Cial Dun & Bradstreet
Software Engineer at Internet Archive
Founding Full-Stack Senior Engineer (UK ONLY) - Fully Remote at MyDataValue
Curated starter pack of nonhuman Django accounts on the Fediverse listing official projects, conferences, media, and community hubs.
Extra functionalities to make Django migrations safer and more scalable.
Lightweight performance devbar for Django.