News

2025 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize awarded to Tim Schilling

The Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize for 2025 was awarded to Tim Schilling. Check out Tim's post about winning it too.

2026 DSF Board Nominations

DSF board nominations are now open, inviting candidates to help shape Django governance, marketing, and global event outreach through strategic leadership.

Python 3.15.0 alpha 1

Python 3.15.0 alpha 1 introduces experimental features including a dedicated profiling package, default UTF-8 encoding, a new PyBytesWriter C API, and improved error messages.

Python 3.13.9 is now available!

Python 3.13.9 quickly fixes a regression in inspect.getsourcelines when decorators are followed by comments or empty lines, enhancing introspection reliability for modern development.

Announcing PSF Community Service Award Recipients!

PSF Community Service Awards recognize exemplary Python community contributions with awardees like Katie McLaughlin whose diverse efforts include advancing Django and open source outreach.

Wagtail CMS News

Wagtail Space 2025: A Stellar Journey

Wagtail Space 2025 showcased innovative CMS customization including practical AI integrations, advanced search features, and community-driven contributions that enhance Wagtail and Django development.

Updates to Django

Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀

Last week we had 9 pull requests merged into Django by 7 different contributors - including 1 first-time contributor! Congratulations to Tim Kamanin for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

In Django 5.2 it's added compatibility for oracledb 3.4.0 ticket: 36646

News from Django Forum:

Let's build an automatic Django ORM feature matrix - How about creating an updated table showing which databases support which Django ORM feature? Find out more in the forum post.

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Articles

Introducing django-http-compression

A new django-http-compression package extends Django's response compression to support Gzip, Brotli and Zstandard, enabling more efficient bandwidth usage and performance.

Django bulk_update memory issue

Django bulk_update suffers from unexpected memory bloat during large migrations, and a custom batching approach prevents SIGTERM crashes by limiting in-memory update statements.

Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?

Python 3.14 improves CPython performance with gains over older versions and promising free-threading benefits for multi-threaded CPU intensive workloads, while benchmarks show PyPy's superior speed.

Releasing Python 3.14.0 · Hugo van Kemenade

Python 3.14 release automation details buildbot tests, CI builds, deferred blockers, and installer creation steps to ensure reliable Python deployments benefiting Django applications.

Adding imports to the Django shell

Overriding the Django shell command to pre-import custom modules streamlines interactive development by reintroducing familiar functionality from django-extensions in Django 5.2.

Events

PyCascades 2026 closes Monday, October 27th, 2025 AoE

PyCascades 2026 calls for Python talk proposals with comprehensive submission guidelines, diverse speaker options, and detailed scheduling for an in-person Vancouver event.

The CFP closes on Monday, October 27th, 2025 AoE.

My Django On The Med 2025 🏖️

The Django On The Med 2025 sprint successfully accelerated ORM improvements and PR discussions while fostering community collaboration through productive coding sessions and networking.

My DjangoCon US 2025

DjangoCon US 2025 highlighted innovative Django enhancements with deep dives into AI, deployment automation, governance, and community-driven features advancing the framework's evolution.

Videos

PyBeach videos are up!

PyBeach's videos are up which explores various advanced Python topics including tooling, packaging, patterns, and collaborative development insights.

Podcasts

Episode 26.1: CPython Sprint Week in Cambridge UK, Part 1 by core.py

Episode 26.1 kicks off coverage of the CPython Sprint Week in Cambridge, UK, featuring interviews with over a dozen members of the core team sharing updates and insights from the event.

Django Job Board

This week brings three new Django and Python job listings, with opportunities ranging from early-stage startups to established companies. New roles include a Founding Backend Engineer in San Francisco, a Senior Python Developer focused on health tech, and a Senior Engineer working across Python and Solidity.

Founding Backend Engineer (On-site San Francisco) — Python • AWS • LLM/RAG at Purrfect Hire 🆕

Senior Python Developer at Basalt Health 🆕

Senior Software Engineer (Python and Solidity) at LiquidFi 🆕

Django/Python Full-stack Engineer at JoinTriple.com

Senior Python/Django Engineer at Search Atlas

Projects

knyghty/django-snakeoil

Simple and quick meta descriptions and titles for your django objects and URLs. Supports OpenGraph and Twitter Cards.

CuriousLearner/django-postgres-anonymizer

Django integration for PostgreSQL Anonymizer extension.

adamchainz/django-http-compression

Django middleware for compressing HTTP responses with Zstandard, Brotli, or Gzip.