News

Django Developers Survey 2021 Results

Results are now live for the official Django Developers Survey. Over 7,000 Django users responded from almost 140 countries.

Django security releases issued: 4.0.1, 3.2.11, and 2.2.26

Three new security updates. Time to upgrade!

Pillow 9.0.0 Release Notes

This release is dedicated to the memory of Fredrik Lundh, aka Effbot, who died in November 2021. Fredrik created PIL in 1995 and he was instrumental in the early success of Python.

Fredrik's Effbot website was how many of us first learned about Python. Effbot created PIL and Pillow 9.0.0 is dedicated in his memory.

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Articles

Feature flags and waffles · Matt Layman

Feature flags are a way to soft launch and then toggle on or off new features, especially in conjunction with the third-party django-waffle package.

My (free) Django monitoring stack for 2022

An overview of several free and paid tools to get a holistic picture of what a Django app is doing.

Today’s Django Security Release Deconstructed (4.0.1, 3.2.11, and 2.2.26)

A very educational look at the three security releases in the latest upgrades to Django from Adam Johnson, a member of both the Security Team and Technical Board.

Events

PyTexas 2022: Health and Safety Guidelines

PyTexas posted its health and safety guidelines. Their Call For Proposals (CFP) closes on January 12th, 2022, 23:59 CST.

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Podcasts

Django Chat #105: Boost Your Django DX with Adam Johnson

Adam is a prolific contributor to the Django community and the author of the forthcoming book, Boost Your Django DX. We discuss his work on the Django Security Team, the Django Technical Board, multiple recent Django third-party packages, and the new book.

Projects

django-request

django-request is a statistics module for django. It stores requests in a database for admins to see, it can also be used to get statistics on who is online etc.

django-forms-dynamic

Resolve form field arguments dynamically when a form is instantiated, not when it's declared.

django-minify-html

Use minify-html, the extremely fast HTML + JS + CSS minifier, with Django.