News

Django 4.2 released

The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 4.2.

Welcome our new Django Fellow - Natalia Bidart

The DSF Board and Fellows Committee are pleased to introduce Natalia Bidart as our new Django Fellow. Natalia will be joining Mariusz Felisiak who is continuing his long and excellent tenure as a Fellow.

Django bugfix release: 4.1.8

This update fixes a bug in Django 4.1.7 that causes invalidation of sessions when rotating secret keys.

Python 3.10.11, 3.11.3, and 3.12.0 alpha 7 released

Python 3.11.3, 3.10.11, and 3.12 alpha 7 are now available.

Wagtail 4.2.2 and 4.1.4 release notes

Security and bugfixes in the latest Wagtail release for 4.2.2 and for 4.1.4.

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Articles

Top 10 Django Third-Party Packages

An opinionated list of the top 10 third-party packages for any Django project.

Django Performance Optimization Tips

This article looks at where potential performance issues can occur in a Django application and how to address them in order to speed up your app.

And I’m done!

Carlton Gibson wrote a short post on his last week as a Django Fellow and what comes next.

We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened

Why and how we continuously invested the team bandwidth to pay back tech debt and what were the results?

React Is Holding Me Hostage

A very comprehensive look at several years of using React in websites.

Events

PyCon US 2023 Call for Volunteers

Looking to make a meaningful contribution to the Python community? Look no further than PyCon US 2023!

Videos

Learn Django and Nuxt 3 by Building a Job Board

Learn how to build a job board from scratch using Django and Nuxt 3 (Vue 3).

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Podcasts

The Real Python Podcast #151: Evaluating Python Packages & Celebrating 20 Years of PyCon US

Best practices for evaluating Python packages and special guest Deb Nicholson, executive director of the Python Software Foundation, to share details about PyCon US 2023.

Projects

paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

A community-supported supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents.

adamchainz/django-upgrade

Automatically upgrade your Django projects. Worth using as you update to Django 4.2!