News

2023 DSF Board Candidates

There are thirty candidates for the upcoming 2023 Django Software Foundation Board, the non-profit behind Django. DSF Individual Members vote on them.

Wagtail 4.1.1

Wagtail 4.1.1 fixes almost a dozen bugs.

Django Technical Board: Project Ideas, and beginning GSoC 2023.

The 2023 Google Summer of Code has been announced and Django Fellow Carlton Gibson is soliciting input on project ideas.

Python 3.12.0 alpha 2 released

Python 3.12.0a2 is the second of seven planned alpha releases.

Acceptable Use Policy · PyPI

The Python Package Index (PyPI) added an Acceptable Use Policy.

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Articles

Contributing to Django or how I learned to stop worrying and just try to fix an ORM Bug

From attending the DjangoCon US sprints to tackling an ORM bug, Ryan Cheley walks us through the entire process.

Towards Inbox Zero: An update on Django's open ticket count

Django Fellow Carlton Gibson on decreasing by roughly 1/3 the number of Open Accepted Tickets in Django over the last four years.

How to Handle Django Login Redirects with HTMX

How to properly handle Django's login_required decorator when applied to HTMX or hybrid HTMX/HTML views.

How To Filter Django QuerySets – 15 Examples For Beginners

A tutorial on creating QuerySets with Django ORM and filtering the data. Includes how to convert QuerySets into lists.

Tutorials

Annotated paginator page

Explanation and code to show additional context for a model’s admin list view.

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Jobs

Community Events Manager

Job posting for the Community Events Manager.

Projects

Opus10/django-pgtransaction

A context manager/decorator which extends Django's atomic function with the ability to set isolation level and retries for a given transaction.

vintasoftware/django-virtual-models

Improve performance and maintainability with a prefetching layer in your Django project.