News

Python 3.14.0 alpha 5 is out

Python 3.14.0a5 is the fifth of seven planned alpha releases.

DjangoCon US Call for Proposals

The CFP is now open until April 27th. The earlier you submit, the better!

DSF member of the month - Lily Foote

Lily is a long-time contributor to Django core, especially on the ORM, and is currently a member of the Django 6.x Steering Council.

I'm excited to join the Sovereign Tech Fellowship

Hugo van Kemenade is now a full-time open source developer, working on Python, with a focus on CPython, including as release manager for Python 3.14 and 3.15.

Updates to Django

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

Last week we had 13 pull requests merged into Django by 9 different contributors - including 3 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Andrew, Brian Nettleton and Arnaldo Govene for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!🎊

This Week's Highlights:

• Support for MariaDB 10.5 has been dropped so MariaDB 10.6 minimum supported version for Django 6.0 (to be released December 2025).
• Support for GEOSHasM has been added for the GEOS API.
• Requesting a default value when migrating an auto field has been prevented. Special thanks for the long work on this PR 🥳

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Articles

Django in government - Thibaud’s blog

DSF President Thibaud Colas focuses on almost 1,000 Django websites used in governments around the world.

Pytest, A Practical Guide

Andrew Mshar provides an introduction to key pytest features, including fixtures, flags, markers, and Django-specific tools.

Things I'd Like to See in a DjangoCon US 2025 Talk

Former DjangoCon US program chair Drew Winstel has a detailed list of suggested topics for DjangoCon US talks this year. The CFP is now open.

Prefixed Parameters for Django querystring tag

An overview of Django 5.1's new querystring tag and how to add support for prefixed parameters.

Jump to dev

A clever Django middleware lets developers paste production URLs into their local server, automatically stripping out the domain for quick issue reproduction.

Events

DjangoCongress JP 2025

This online event is coming soon! Feb, 22, 2025.

Tutorials

Django MongoDB Backend Quickstart

Learn how to connect to a MongoDB deployment, ensure your deployment is hosted on MongoDB Atlas, and interact with the data using simple CRUD operations.

Videos

uv and Django - Managing Django Projects & Dependencies with uv!

This video dives into using uv and Django together for project and dependency management, including how to install packages into different groups and run Django commands.

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Django Job Board

Full-Stack engineer at Exoscale

⭐ Jr. Web Services Engineer at Panic (featured)

Senior Backend Engineer at BactoBio

Projects

safwanrahman/django-webpush

Web Push Notification Package for Django.

OmenApps/django-pint-field

Store, validate, and convert physical quantities in Django using Pint.