| in blog | Django News |
|---|---|
| published date | 2026-05-29 |
| original entry | Issue 339: Early Bird DjangoCon US Tickets Ending Soon |
Early bird ticket sales for DjangoCon US 2026 end on May 31, 2026, with discounted pricing available. The conference runs five days at Voco Chicago Downtown and includes community-selected talks plus Django contribution sprints.
A full-day conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on Wagtail, with talks covering a range of topics, lightning talks, hallway discussions, and more.
Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Pradhvan from Djangonaut Space! 🚀
Last week we had 16 pull requests merged into Django by 10 different contributors.
This week's Django highlights: 🦄
<script>, <link>, and <style> elements when available. (#36825)HttpResponse.reason_phrase to raise BadHeaderError when set to a value containing control characters. (#37100)Query.clear_ordering() to recursively clear ordering on combined queries, preventing errors when using __in lookups on nested union() querysets. (#37097)ModelAdmin.get_queryset(), ensuring custom annotations and filtering are consistently applied to form actions. (#37117)If you haven't already, give Django 6.1 alpha 1 a spin and report anything suspicious to the issue tracker! 🎉
That's all for this week in Django development! 🐍🦄
After moving to Ubuntu 26.04, upgrade an existing 17/main cluster to 18 by running pg_upgradecluster 17 main -v 18, then verify the new 18/main cluster is online. Once confirmed, drop the old 17 cluster with pg_dropcluster 17 main and optionally purge postgresql-17 and postgresql-client-17 packages.
Jake Howard walks through his eighth website rewrite, this time ditching Wagtail for a custom "semi-static" Django setup that renders Markdown content into SQLite at startup and serves it dynamically with Jinja2 templates.
A look at how to use Django's StreamingHttpResponse to send the `
and above-the-fold content first, letting the browser fetch static assets and start painting while the rest of the page renders.
A recap from from the community booth to open spaces, hallway track, and Jay Miller receiving the PSF Community Service Award.
How the maintainers of django-removals shipped new warnings for the Django 6.1 deprecation wave.
Mentor and mentee are starting a GSoC 2026 project around an “Experimental Flags” framework for Django core, using the forum to gather requirements and drive early consensus. The plan balances fast iteration with faster-than-normal Django consensus, including an initial third-party package to test ideas before wider adoption.
A lively discussion around how experimental features can be merged into the main repository but remain explicitly non-stable.
New thoughts and comments on the age-old question.
Not much going on, “just” the 6.1 Feature Freeze/alpha release, a sprint at PyCon US, and a kickoff meeting with Google Summer of Code participants & mentors.
As we had the feature freeze, focused on a few feature PRs I had prioritized for 6.1 release.
This week was mostly about returning from PyCon, which was quite exhausting. I arrived back on Wednesday, fairly drained (and very hungry), so I worked during Thu and Fri catching up on a large backlog of email notifications and syncing with the other Fellows.
PyCon Italia this week has been Django members in attendance, so it is a good time to remind readers that Django on the Med will be back in Italy later in the year.
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HTTP deployment probes for Django applications.