News

2025 DSF Board Nominations

Nominations are open for the 2025 Django Software Foundation Board of Directors and there are 4 positions currently open, with each position serving for two years.

PyCharm & Django Campaign 2024 - encore

The Django Software Foundation's biggest fundraising event of the year is here!

Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Raffaella Suardini from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 18 pull requests merged into Django by 14 different contributors - including a first-time contributor! Congratulations to r0Zh-ovanya for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

News in Django 5.2:

• CharField.max_length is no longer required to be set on SQLite, which supports unlimited VARCHAR columns. PR #18582
• Data loaded from fixtures and from migrations enabled with serialized_rollback=True are now available during TransactionTestCase.setUpClass(). PR #18514
• Each serialization format now defines a Deserializer class, rather than a function, to improve extensibility when defining a custom serialization format. PR #18335

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Articles

nanodjango

A look at nanodjango, the latest in a long line of attempts to get Django to work with a single file.

What is Django?

Thoughts on what exactly is Django, from the folks at Foxley Talent and with feedback from Paolo Melchiorre and Mariusz Felisiak.

Form save_m2m() when commit=False

A TIL on working with forms and the save() method.

A quick guide to platforms the Django Community uses

A look at commonly-used tools to stay in touch with the Django community.

DjangoCon Design Reflection

A look at DjangoCon design iterations over the years from 2018 in San Diego to 2024 in Durham, NC.

Videos

Django & Celery - A love story of async proportions by Hugo Bessa

Our first DjangoCon US 2024 talk has seen the light of day. Other videos will be released over the next month.

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Django Job Board

Senior Full Stack Developer at Baserow

Django Backend Developer at Spotter AI

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Projects

lorinkoz/django-pgschemas

Django multi-tenancy through Postgres schemas.

radiac/nanodjango

Full Django in a single file - views, models, API, with async support. Automatically convert it to a full project.