Aug. 30, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
For August 2025, we welcome Lilian as our DSF member of the month! ⭐ Lilian contributes to the community by writing blog posts, being active in the Django forum and participating in code reviews with the Space Reviewers. Starting as a participant in the first Djangonaut Space session, she progressed to become both a Captain and Session organizer. She has been a DSF member since March 2024. Lilian is looking for new opportunities! You can learn more about Lilian by visiting Lilian's website a…
Read MoreAug. 29, 2025 » Matthias Kestenholz » [Archived Version]
Weeknotes (2025 week 35) Summer was and is nice. The hot days seem to be over (for now), but in the last years summer hasn’t really left until the end of September, so we’ll see. I personally like the warm weather but I really hoped that our leaders were smarter. The climate emergency could be seen from far away. The pigheadedness is hard to stomach. And of course it’s not the only problem we’re facing as humanity at all. Releases I did some longer-form writing about two of the releases here: M…
Read MoreAug. 29, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Python: The Documentary | An origin story A 90-minute documentary featuring Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more, and they tell the story of Python’s rise, its community-driven evolution, the conflicts that almost tore it apart, and the language’s impact on... well… everything. youtu.be pypistats.org is now operated by the Python Software Foundation PSF now operates pypistats.org, transferring maintenance of …
Read MoreAug. 27, 2025 » Matthias Kestenholz » [Archived Version]
django-content-editor now supports cloning of content What is the content editor? Django’s builtin admin application provides a really good and usable administration interface for creating and updating content. django-content-editor extends Django’s inlines mechanism with an interface and tools for managing and rendering heterogenous collections of content as are often necessary for content management systems. We are using django-content-editor in basically all projects, as a part of feincms3. …
Read MoreAug. 25, 2025 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
A recap of my fantastic DjangoCon Africa, UbuCon Africa 2025 experience. It was the first time I travelled to Africa, keynoted a conference and went on a safari.
Read MoreAug. 23, 2025 » Matthias Kestenholz » [Archived Version]
Menu improvements in django-prose-editor I have repeatedly mentioned the django-prose-editor project in my weeknotes but I haven’t written a proper post about it since rebuilding it on top of Tiptap at the end of 2024. Much has happened in the meantime. A lot of work went into the menu system (as alluded to in the title of this post), but by no means does that cover all the work. As always, the CHANGELOG is the authoritative source. 0.11 introduced HTML sanitization which only allows HTML tags …
Read MoreAug. 22, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News State of Python 2025 Is Out! Explore the key trends and actionable ideas from the latest Python Developers Survey, which was conducted jointly by the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains PyCharm and includes insights from over 30,000 developers. jetbrains.com PyPI now serves project status markers in API responses PyPI now exposes standardized project status markers through its HTML and JSON index APIs, enabling package installers…
Read MoreAug. 17, 2025 » REVSYS Blog » [Archived Version]
Stop letting bot traffic evict your customers' sessions. A simple Redis configuration switch from LRU to LFU solved our crawler problem, with a Django configuration example.
Read MoreAug. 15, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Jacob Tyler Walls is Our New Fellow Jacob Tyler Walls joins the Django Fellowship, bringing Django contributions, Triage and Review experience, ORM expertise, and GIS and open source maintenance skills. djangoproject.com Python 3.14.0rc2 and 3.13.7 are go! Python 3.14 release candidates provide performance enhancements, new language features, and ABI stability, urging Django maintainers to prepare for compatibility testing. …
Read MoreAug. 13, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
tl;dr A summary of resources and learnings related to building REST API I put together over the last couple of years. Complete API development workflow from Django backend to frontend clients using Django REST Framework, drf-spectacular for OpenAPI spec generation, and automated client generation with openapi-generator. Big productivity boost! There is a lot of discussion about frameworks for building REST APIs, some of them being even able to generate OpenAPI specs directly for you. Django i…
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