Feb. 23, 2024

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Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Raffaella Suardini from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 15 pull requests merged into Django by 14 different contributors - including 4 first time contributors! Congratulations to Shafiya Adzhani, Cosmic Process, Moein Bbp, and Aaron Linville for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

News in Django 5.1:

inside OPTIONS, the option "init_command" is now supported on SQLite to specify pragma options <sqlite-init-command> upon connection.
django.contrib.gis.gdal.GeometryCollection and its subclasses now support measured geometries via the new attribute .OGRGeometry.is_measured and m properties, along with the .OGRGeometry.set_measured method.

In Django 5.0 a bug was fixed where filtering on foreign keys wasn't working if the field wasn't in .ModelAdmin.list_filter. It's also solved a crash involving decorators (@sensitive_variables and @sensitive_post_parameters) when loading functions from .pyc files.

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Wagtail CMS

Meagen makes a case for switching to WebP and shares some resources that will work with any website.

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Creative proposal ideas for Wagtail Space and beyond.

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Articles

Discover how a custom context processor can switch between partial and complete HTML templates in Django, optimizing for HTMX requests.

arfs6.me

This article shows us how to get database results with a count in one database query instead of two.

peterbe.com

Will posted his thoughts, notes, and slides from his recent Django User Model talk at the Django Boston Meetup.

wsvincent.com

Jacob Kaplan-Moss shares some thoughts on this issue, which we (the writers of this newsletter) wholly agree with. Jacob also writes regularly on many tech-related topics that aren't strictly Django-related, so they are not shared in this newsletter but are always worth a read.

jacobian.org

A case study about successfully working on an open-source package for a closed-source application.

medium.com

Events

Here’s what we’ve got lined up: Universal listings, Dark mode and snug mode, Wagtail AI, Newsletter package sneak preview, and much more!

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Videos

This is a quick intro to the svcs package – a flexible service locator for Python! Watch it if you want to improve the handling of your web application's ser...

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DjangoCon Videos

DSF President Chaim Kirby provides an overview of the Django Software Foundation, with a special focus on recent changes and new initiatives meant to increase engagement with Django, the DSF, and the greater Django Community. Followed by a Q&A session.

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A survival guide for developers who may occasionally be called upon to perform the duties of a PostgreSQL DBA.

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Proxy models are part of Django’s inheritance styles, but how to they work, how are they different from other inheritance styles that Django provide, practically where can they be applied in real world scenarios. Using simple code snippets and practical examples lets explore proxy models.

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Podcasts

Harout and Andrew are the engineers behind pinplanet, a free Django-based mobile app to pin where you’ve been. We discuss moving from a PWA to native iOS, Kotlin for Android, testing and performance challenges along the way, type hints, and more.

djangochat.com