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Django 6.x Steering Council Election Results

Congrats to our new Steering Council members.

Carlton Gibson
Emma Delescolle
Frank Wiles
Lily Foote
Tim Schilling

Django Reached 100%+ Funding!

Django successfully reached its funding goal of $200,000 for 2024. It speaks to the volunteer-nature of the project that something with so many moving parts and active contributions can thrive on such a relatively limited budget.

Python Insider: Python 3.14.0 alpha 3 is out

This is an early developer preview of Python 3.14 featuring several major new features compared to Python 3.13.

Django Software Foundation

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Velda Kiara from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 11 different contributors - including 3 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Juan Pablo Mallarino, Ben Cardy, and amansharma612 for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!🎉

Here are some highlights from the recent updates coming to Django 5.2:

The migrate and runserver commands now respect the requires_system_checks override, running only the checks tagged with the specified tags. A new hook, get_check_kwargs(), allows for further customization.
django.urls.reverse has been enhanced to support query strings and URL fragments, offering more flexibility when generating URLs with additional parameters.
The DecimalField.get_db_prep_value() method has been updated to call DatabaseOperations.adapt_decimalfield_value(), ensuring proper handling of decimal values during database operations.

Articles

New project to shorten django-admin to django because we are not monsters

Jeff proposed a third-party Python package called django-cli-no-admin, which shortens the django-admin command line script to just django.

How to show a modal in Django + HTMX

Learn how to display a Bootstrap modal using HTMX - no JavaScript required.

Object-based assets for Django’s forms.Media

A streamlined approach to managing assets in Django forms using an object-oriented design, enhancing maintainability and flexibility.

Django Quiz 2024

A fun annual quiz Adam Johnson conducted at the December edition of the Django London meetup.

Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv

Trey Hunner shares his current techniques for working with uv to manage dependencies.

Single-file Django Apps with nanodjango

The creator of nanodjango, explains more about his project to bring Flask-level simplicity to Django, without losing any of its power.

Order, Tailwind, DRY · Applied Cartography

Justin from Buttondown explains his process for exfiltrating some higher-traffic, higher-leverage parts of Django's admin UI into some more bespoke components.