News

Django bugfix release: 4.2.2

Features 11 new bugfixes. See the complete notes for more.

Official Django Merchandise

Did you know there is an official Django merchandise store? Represent Django in your community with a t-shirt, sweatshirt, hoody, or baby gear. All proceeds are donated to the Django Software Foundation.

“Boost Your Git DX” available in early access

This is the latest book from Adam Johnson, a member of the Django 5.x Steering Council. His past books include Speed Up Your Django Tests and Boost Your Django DX.

Updates to Django

Django PRs this week

Courtesy of Django Review and Triage Team Member Sarah Boyce...

On the week starting May 29th, we had 11 pull requests merged into Django by 10 different contributors - including 5 first time contributors! Congratulations to Kacper Wolkiewicz, Christopher Cave-Ayland, AP Jama, Cheuk Ting Ho and Nina Menezes for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

Included in this week were some accessibility improvements to the Django admin including enabling user zooming on mobile and adding icon descriptions in "Recent Actions" into 5.0. Big thank you to our accessibility team for helping our new contributors at the sprints!

Are you also interested to learn about accessibility and contributing to Django? Why don't you add labels to the FilteredSelectMultiple widget #34625? Look forward to welcoming you on board!

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Articles

Django Simple Settings

Could a single settings file make life easier?

A new tutorial for Neapolitan

One happy aftermath of the sprints at DjangoCon Europe is a new tutorial for Neapolitan, a third-party package from recently retired Django Fellow, Carlton Gibson, that provides quick CRUD views for Django.

Django shell colors: dev, staging or production?

Tips to color-code dev environments to avoid accidental production data edits.

Some blogging myths

We linked Julia Evans' article this week to help anyone who wants to blog more but talks themselves out of hitting publish.

Events

DjangoCon Africa CFP is open!

DjangoCon Africa CFP is now open! Submit your talk or tutorial proposal from Wednesday, May 31st to Wednesday, July 12th, anywhere in the world, and encourage your friends and colleagues to do the same.

Photos from DjangoCon Europe 2023: Edinburgh

Photos by Rod Penn - www.penn.photography (IG: @rod_penn)

Tutorials

Django REST Framework Authentication

This tutorial looks at how to add authentication to Django REST Framework with django-allauth and dj-rest-auth.

Videos

DjangoCon Europe 2023 Edinburgh Videos Are Up!

An amazing turnaround by the team, as the conference was just last week. We will be featuring selected videos in future issues but the entire program is now available.

PyCon US 2023 Videos Are Up!

Recordings from PyCon US 2023 in Salt Lake City, UT.

Podcasts

Django Chat #140: Django Co-Creator - Simon Willison (Ep 21 Replay)

Simon Willison is a co-creator of Django and currently works at Eventbrite. We discuss the early days of Django, the founding of Lanyrd, and his ongoing work with Datasette to make it easier to publish and explore data online.

Jobs

Community Communications Manager - Python Software Foundation

Apply to Community Communications Manager at Python Software Foundation in Remote.

Projects

Raekkeri/django-requestlogs

A package providing middleware and other helpers for audit logging.

fabiocaccamo/django-treenode

Probably the best abstract model/admin for your tree-based stuff.

typeddjango/django-stubs

PEP-484 stubs for Django featuring a new logo.