Introduction

Jeff and Will are at PyCon US in Pittsburgh this weekend and would love to meet fellow Django enthusiasts. Drop by the DSF or JetBrains booth to say hello and connect with the many Django community members and DSF folks who will be around all weekend.

News

Google Summer of Code 2025 - Django Projects

Three projects out of many worth proposals were accepted. Improvements to Django admin, adding django-template-partials to core, and automating processes in the Django contribution workflow.

Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O

Postgres 18 introduces asynchronous I/O with new io_method options (worker and io_uring), which can double or triple read performance in high-latency cloud environments.

Django Software Foundation

Simon Charette is the DSF member of the month

Simon Charette is a longtime Django contributor and community member. He served on the Django 5.x Steering Council and is part of the Security team and the Triage and Review team.

Wagtail CMS News

Our four contributors for Google Summer of Code 2025

Four GSoC 2025 contributors will extend Wagtail with grid-aware sustainability, strict CSP compatibility, improved media listings, and enhanced keyboard shortcut accessibility.

Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Abigail Afi Gbadago from the DSF Board and Djangonaut Space!🚀

Last week we had 10 pull requests merged into Django by 7 different contributors - including a first-time contributor! Congratulations to Safrone for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!🎉

This week’s Django highlights 🌟

• Security release of Django 5.2.1, 5.1.9 and 4.2.21.
• Field names have been added to hints in admin duplicated fields errors.
• Maximum bulk size for SQLite bulk_create and bulk_update methods now respect SQLITE_LIMIT_VARIABLE_NUMBER.

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Articles

Django Security Best Practices: A Comprehensive Guide for Software Engineers

Enforce up-to-date Django versions, HTTPS, strong SECRET_KEY, ORM usage, built-in security middleware, XSS/CSRF defenses, robust authentication, dependency auditing, logging, and monitoring.

18 Years of REVSYS

Revsys marks 18 years offering Python and Django expertise, including code reviews, architectural design, cloud migrations, Kubernetes, CI/CD, AI integration, and team training.

Django: model field choices that can change without a database migration

Use Django 5.0 callable choices to avoid no-op migrations when updating model field choices, though database constraints still require migrations for data integrity.

Algorithms: Learning One's Learnings

Use Big O notation to choose efficient sorting in Django apps, leveraging Python's built-in Timsort or Quick Sort instead of Bubble Sort to improve performance.

Birds and Angles: Dabbling in Django Components

Combining django-bird and dj-angles enables Web-component style reusable Django template components for cleaner syntax and improved readability, despite limited filter parsing for props.

Setting up NGINX Unit (and switching from uWSGI)

Switch Django apps from uWSGI to NGINX Unit using JSON configuration, add SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER, adjust socket proxy_pass, and enable ASGI/WSGI deployments.

My DjangoCon Europe 2025

Paolo Melchiorre recaps his DjangoCon Europe 2025 experience in Dublin through Mastodon posts covering keynotes, talks on testing, migrations, community events, and mentoring.

Tutorials

Rapid AI-powered applications with Django MongoDB and Voyage API

Learn how to build an LLM-powered recipe recommendation website with Django and MongoDB.

Podcasts

Django Chat #182: Event Sourcing with Chris May

Chris is a Senior Staff Engineer at WellSky, a software company in the health industry. We discuss his background as a graphic designer, learning Python (and Django) as an adult, his multiple conference talks on HTMX, why he’s a fan of event sourcing, and more.

Talk Python #505: t-strings in Python (PEP 750)

A panel discussion of PEP 750 on t-strings, scheduled for Python 3.14, which build on the idea of f-strings to produce a template object rather than a standard string.

Django Job Board

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Projects

astral-sh/ty

An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.

pydantic/pydantic-ai

Agent Framework / shim to use Pydantic with LLMs.