April 2, 2025 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
DjangoCon US 2025 is accepting talk proposals for a few more weeks. If folks are on the fence about submitting a talk, here are some ideas that I would personally be interested in.
Read MoreMarch 29, 2025 » james.walters.click » [Archived Version]
There's a post that's a couple of years old called "Any updates?". I saw it recently in Django News, but I think I've seen it before. It basically discourages you from commenting on GitHub Issues with "Any updates?" since 1) if there were any, they would be in the issue …
Read MoreMarch 28, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]
Updates to Django Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Abigail Afi Gbadago from the DSF Board and Djangonaut Space!🚀 Last week we had 20 pull requests merged into Django by 14 different contributors - including 4 first-time contributors! Congratulations to mguegnol, YQ, Filip Owczarek and Ahmed Nassar for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!🥳 This week’s Django highlights: The environment variable HIDE_PRODUCTION_WARNING has been cha…
Read MoreMarch 28, 2025 » Software Crafts » [Archived Version]
Are there some trends that we need to be more explicit about?
Read MoreMarch 21, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Django 5.2 release candidate 1 released The final opportunity for you to try out a composite of new features before Django 5.2 is released. djangoproject.com Python 3.14.0a6 Release Python 3.14.0a6 alpha (Pi Day release) introduces deferred annotation evaluation and improved interpreter performance, offering potential efficiency gains for Django-based projects. python.org Discussion #154262: Ability to make Gi…
Read MoreMarch 20, 2025 » Software Crafts » [Archived Version]
5.2 brings the Simple Block tag which is very similar to React children
Read MoreMarch 19, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
Django 5.2 release candidate 1 is the final opportunity for you to try out a composite of new features before Django 5.2 is released. The release candidate stage marks the string freeze and the call for translators to submit translations. Provided no major bugs are discovered that can't be solved in the next two weeks, Django 5.2 will be released on or around April 2. Any delays will be communicated on the on the Django forum. Please use this opportunity to help find and fix bugs (which should…
Read MoreMarch 19, 2025 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
When removing multi-table inheritance in Django, you need to remove your Model's bases from the migration's model state. This post goes into detail on when this comes up and how to resolve it.
Read MoreMarch 18, 2025 » timonweb.com » [Archived Version]
When developing Django applications, we often need to control which parts of the UI are accessible based on user permissions. Luckily, Django provides a straightforward way to check user permissions directly in templates using the perms object. Using the perms Object in Django Templates Django automatically injects a perms context … Read now
Read MoreMarch 17, 2025 » Simon Willison's Weblog: django » [Archived Version]
suitenumerique/docs New open source (MIT licensed) collaborative text editing web application, similar to Google Docs or Notion, notable because it's a joint effort funded by the French and German governments and "currently onboarding the Netherlands". It's built using Django and React: Docs is built on top of Django Rest Framework, Next.js, BlockNote.js, HocusPocus and Yjs. Deployments currently require Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, memcached, an S3 bucket (or compatible) and an OIDC provider. …
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