A New Django Fellow
DjangoCon Africa this week, pyx, building better APIs, updating Python, and more.
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.
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.
Announcing the PSF Board Candidates for 2025!
There are four board seats open for this year's PSF election. The timeline, voting details, and candidates are included in the post.
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q2 2025! 🎉
PSF announces Q2 2025 Fellows, recognizing new contributors who lead projects, maintain libraries, organize events, and mentor to grow the Python community globally.
Django Software Foundation
DSF member of the month - Jake Howard
Jake Howard, DSF member and Django contributor, leads DEP 14 and develops Django tasks, advancing native background workers and task infrastructure for Django.
Building better APIs: from Django to client libraries with OpenAPI
Combine Django REST Framework with drf-spectacular to generate OpenAPI specs and use openapi-generator plus CI to produce and maintain automated client libraries.
Django’s accessibility contributing guide
The Django accessibility team published contribution guidelines detailing practical testing, design steps, reporting workflow, and resources to help contributors make Django accessible to assistive technologies.
Wagtail CMS News
Front-end architecture fundamentals
Revisiting the fundamentals of the Web that Wagtail relies on
Updates to Django
Today, 'Updates to Django' is presented by Velda Kiara from Django Events Foundation North America (DEFNA)! 🚀
Last week we had 16 pull requests merged into Django by 12 different contributors - including two first-time contributors! Congratulations to Xdynix and Alec Kerrigan for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
Django Core Updates ✨
- The
collectstatic --clearcommand now suppresses individual deleted file messages and provides a summary count of deleted files. Additionally, individual clashing name warnings in thecollectstaticcommand's default have been silenced. - Added a system check for
ManyToManyFieldwhen declared on models that utilizeCompositePrimaryKeyto prevent misconfigurations and enhance model integrity. - Django now handles
F("field__transform")andQ(field__transform__lookup=value)lookups correctly during constraint validation which will eliminate false positives.
Community Updates 💜
Djangonaut Space session 5 is open for applications. Session 5 will run from September 29th, 2025, to November 23rd, 2025. The deadline is September 14th, 2025.
Read more and apply through the link in the blog here.
That's all for this week in Django development! 🐍🦄
Django Fellow Reports
Fellow Report - Natalia Bidart
3 tickets triaged, 9 reviewed, 1 authored, and other misc.
Fellow Report - Sarah Boyce
3 tickets triaged, 26(!) reviewed, and released Django 5.2.5.
Articles
pyx: a Python-native package registry, now in Beta
pyx is a Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.
Updating Python
Eric Matthes, author of Python Crash Course, covers this common question in his most recent "Mostly Python" newsletter. He shows how to clean up old pyenv and Homebrew Pythons in favor of adopting uv to install and manage Python interpreters and virtual environments.
Get started with event sourcing today
Use the eventsourcing Python package to learn Event, Aggregate, and Application patterns, then apply event sourcing to Django app domain logic with minimal infrastructure.
Combining Django signals with in-memory LRU cache
It's easy to combine functools.lru_cache with Django signals to get a good memoization pattern on Django ORM queries.
HTTP Cats
API for HTTP Cats
Events
DjangoCon Africa this week!
DjangoCon Africa has been taking place this week in Zanzibar. You can follow along on Fosstodon, LinkedIn, and other socials.
Django Girls Chicago - September 6th
Django Girls Chicago is happening during DjangoCon US week! A free one-day workshop for women beginners. No coding experience needed! Applications close August 23rd, 2025 - don't wait!
Introducing Keanya Phelps, DjangoCon US 2025 Conference Chair
A chat with Keanya Phelps about her role as Conference Chair and her experience with Django as a mid-life career changer.
DjangoCon Videos
Bulletproof Data Pipelines: Django, Celery, and the Power of Idempotency
Learn how to build resilient data pipelines with Django, Celery, and idempotent consumers. We'll dive into robust error-handling techniques and the role of idempotency in ensuring reliable and consistent data processing.
How to solve a Python mystery
Using Linux observability tools to learn what your Python application is doing.
Django Job Board
Backend Python Software Engineer (Hybrid) at NVIDIA 🆕
Senior Python Developer at Brightwater 🆕
Senior Backend Engineer at Prowler
Django Codebase
Contributing opportunities list - Django Internals
A small project to list the contributing opportunities available in the Django community.
Projects
dumaas/django-ulidfield
A drop-in Django model field for storing sortable, time-encoded ULIDs as 26-character strings.
adamghill/dj-lite
Configure SQLite for production use with Django.
Sponsorship
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