Dec. 9, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The Online Community Working Group has introduced a new GitHub repository designed to manage and track ideas, suggestions, and improvements across Django's various online community platforms. Introducing the Online Community Working Group Repository Primarily inspired by the rollout of the New Features repository, the Online Community Working Group has launched their own version that works in conjunction with the Online Community Working Group Ideas GitHub project to provide a mechanism to gath…
Read MoreDec. 8, 2025 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]
Previously, we covered bearer authentication within HTTP’s general authentication framework. In this post, we’ll implement basic authentication, where the client provides a username and password. To recap, HTTP’s general authentication framework defines a general scheme for authentication: Clients may provide an authorization request header that contains a …
Read MoreDec. 5, 2025 » Matthias Kestenholz » [Archived Version]
Weeknotes (2025 week 49) I seem to be publishing weeknotes monthly, so I’m now thinking about renaming the category :-) Mosparo I have started using a self-hosted mosparo instance for my captcha needs. It’s nicer than Google reCAPTCHA. Also, not sending data to Google and not training AI models on traffic signs feels better. Fixes for the YouTube 153 error Simon Willison published a nice writeup about YouTube embeds failing with a 153 error. We have also encountered this problem in the wild and…
Read MoreDec. 5, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Django 6.0 released Django 6.0 introduces template partials, a background task framework, Content Security Policy support, and a modern Email API based on EmailMessage. djangoproject.com 2026 DSF Board Election Results Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Priya Pahwa, and Ryan Cheley were elected to two year terms, joining continuing directors to form the 2026 DSF Board. djangoproject.com Releases Django security releases…
Read MoreDec. 5, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Django 6.0 released Django 6.0 introduces template partials, a background task framework, Content Security Policy support, and a modern Email API based on EmailMessage. 2026 DSF Board Election Results Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Priya Pahwa, and Ryan Cheley were elected to two year terms, joining continuing directors to form the 2026 DSF Board. Releases Django security releases issued: 5.2.9, 5.1.15, and 4.2.27 Django issues security releases 5.2.9, 5.1.15, and 4.2.27, addressing a FilteredRelation…
Read MoreDec. 4, 2025 » Simon Willison's Weblog: django » [Archived Version]
Django 6.0 released Django 6.0 includes a flurry of neat features, but the two that most caught my eye are background workers and template partials. Background workers started out as DEP (Django Enhancement Proposal) 14, proposed and shepherded by Jake Howard. Jake prototyped the feature in django-tasks and wrote this extensive background on the feature when it landed in core just in time for the 6.0 feature freeze back in September. Kevin Wetzels published a useful first look at Django's backg…
Read MoreDec. 4, 2025 » Simon Willison's Weblog: django » [Archived Version]
Django 6.0 released Django 6.0 includes a flurry of neat features, but the two that most caught my eye are background workers and template partials. Background workers started out as DEP (Django Enhancement Proposal) 14, proposed and shepherded by Jake Howard. Jake prototyped the feature in django-tasks and wrote this extensive background on the feature when it landed in core just in time for the 6.0 feature freeze back in September. Kevin Wetzels published a useful first look at Django's backg…
Read MoreDec. 3, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 6.0. The release notes assembles a mosaic of modern tools and thoughtful design. A few highlights are: Template Partials: modularize templates using small, named fragments for cleaner, more maintainable code. (GSoC project by Farhan Ali Raza, mentored by Carlton Gibson) Background Tasks: run code outside the HTTP request-response cycle with a built-in, flexible task framework. (Jake Howard) Content Security Policy (CSP): easily configu…
Read MoreDec. 3, 2025 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]
Django 6.0 was released today, starting another release cycle for the loved and long-lived Python web framework (now 20 years old!). It comes with a mosaic of new features, contributed to by many, some of which I am happy to have helped with. Below is my pick of highlights …
Read MoreDec. 2, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing releases for Django 5.2.9, Django 5.1.15, and Django 4.2.27. These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible. CVE-2025-13372: Potential SQL injection in FilteredRelation column aliases on PostgreSQL FilteredRelation was subject to SQL injection in column aliases, using a suitably crafted dictionary, with dictionary expansion, as the **kwargs pass…
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