Issue 355: DjangoCon Europe 2027 in Innsbruck and Django Probe
| in blog | Django News |
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| published date | 2026-09-18 |
| original entry | Issue 355: DjangoCon Europe 2027 in Innsbruck and Django Probe |
News
You don't need to be a Django or Python expert, or already part of the community, to apply for the DSF's first Executive Director role. Applications now close September 22, anywhere on Earth.
Tickets are on sale and the Call for Proposals is open for five days of Django, Python, and community in Innsbruck, February 17 to 21, 2027.
Django Software Foundation
The board approved DEP 0019, discussed next steps in their Executive Director search, committed to funding Djangonaut Space for the next three years, later launched a new corporate sponsorship page, and more.
Python Software Foundation
Elaine Wong, Laís Carvalho, Ee Durbin, and Georgi Ker take the four open board seats out of 670 ballots cast, as Cheuk Ting Ho, Chris Neugebauer, and Denny Perez finish their terms.
The first Python Packaging Council is seated: Brett Cannon and Pradyun Gedam on two-year terms, Donald Stufft, Henry Schreiner, and Ralf Gommers on one-year terms, so roughly half the council turns over each year.
Feedback on the June draft reshaped the PSF's five-year plan, which now adds security baseline and vulnerability management objectives, folds translation into accessibility, and clarifies how companies can fund specific work.
Updates to Django
Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀
Last week we had 9 pull requests merged into Django by 8 different contributors - including 3 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Loïc LEFEVRE, Paul K. Gerke and Rickey Shideler for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
- Support for GEOS 3.10 is removed for Django 6.2
- Fixed a data loss issue in Django 4.0 where
network rasterswere deleted by GeoDjango when closed.
Thanks to the persistence of the contributors, a great deal of work has been done on the dajngo-admin yes-icons to make it rectangular, which helps people with dichromatic viewing deficiencies.
Kudos for the great work updating the tutorial and cleaning up a section to help newcomers focus on the essentials.
Django Fellow Reports
A quieter week, with a mix of security work, reviews, and follow-ups from ongoing work. I spent a good chunk of time on a security report that needed a second triage, including a detailed review of the proposed patch 🔎.
I also wrapped up more of the follow-through from DEP 20 by adapting the release checklists to the new release calendar, and resumed a PR to make EmailValidator more flexible.
And, in particularly happy news 🥳, we welcomed two new members to the Ops Team and two to the Security Team 🎉. I’m thrilled to see both teams growing!
This week was quite admin heavy but all positive things! The usual tickets triaged, reviewed, and authored, as well as four security issues, and lots of meetings.
An early report for about a day at my desk before heading out for some vacation. Multiple tickets reviewed and authored, along with security/ops/steering council/Fellows meetings.
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Articles
Because the new MCP version is stateless, a server is just a Django view: route path("mcp", server), decorate functions that take an HttpRequest, and msgspec validates arguments against schemas generated from your type annotations. No ASGI or Channels needed.
Tim Schilling wants decisions about what Django adds or deprecates to rest on more than gut feel, so django-probe counts which Django classes, methods, and functions your codebase actually uses and submits the tally. Sign up at djangoprobe.org, then scan and submit.
Four projects, one lesson: make being wrong cheap.
A walkthrough of writing a custom Django management command to bulk import data.
One RedirectView at /.well-known/change-password lets password managers send users straight to your change password page, and Django's default 404s already pass the spec's check for servers that answer 200 to everything.
A bot signed up 2,249 accounts on a Django volunteer portal to borrow its sending reputation for email bombing, and at 30 a day nobody noticed until fake accounts were 91% of the database. The fixes: django-simple-captcha, per-IP hourly rate limits, and a scheduled purge of unverified accounts.
Picture-in-picture isn't just for video: this API floats any HTML in an always-on-top window, and the display-mode: picture-in-picture media query keeps your CSS from breaking once a component leaves the page. Desktop Chrome and Firefox only for now.
Django Forum
Plausible tracking is now live on djangoproject.com and docs.djangoproject.com. This was a long-running discussion over the past 2 years. Thank you to everyone who participated.
Events
The second Django on the Med development sprints are taking place next week in beautiful Pescara, Italy.
Djangonauts from in and around Denmark are meeting up for the 6th edition of Django Day Copenhagen, to be held on October 2nd. It will be a full day of talks, either to be experienced online -or- at our venue.
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Django Job Board
The DSF's search for its first Executive Director, now open through September 22, leads this week's board, alongside a new Django role at The Developer Society, machine learning work at Provision, and a backend seat at The Cruise Brothers.
⭐ Executive Director at Django Software Foundation
🆕 Django Developer at The Developer Society
Machine Learning Engineer (Hybrid) at Provision
Django Developer at The Cruise Brothers
Projects
Write an email once as a Django template, and django-letter sends it as HTML with inlined CSS plus a plain-text alternative derived from the same markup.
The package behind the article above, for building MCP servers inside a regular Django project.