Google Summer of Code 2026 with Django
1000 Most Popular Django Packages, DjangoCon US Date Change, icu4py package, and more.
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Google Summer of Code 2026 with Django
All the information you need to apply for Django's 21st consecutive year in the program.
Django Software Foundation
DSF member of the month - Baptiste Mispelon
Baptiste is a long-time Django and Python contributor who co-created the Django Under the Hood conference series and serves on the Ops team maintaining its infrastructure. He has been a DSF member since November 2014. You can learn more about Baptiste by visiting Baptiste's website and his GitHub Profile.
Wagtail CMS News
The *1000 most popular* Django packages
Based on GitHub stars and PyPI download numbers.
Updates to Django
Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Johanan from Djangonaut Space! 🚀
Last week we had 11 pull requests merged into Django by 10 different contributors - including 4 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Saish Mungase, Marco Aurélio da Rosa Haubrich, 조형준 and Muhammad Usman for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
This week's Django highlights:
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BuiltinLookup.as_sql()now correctly handles parameters returned as tuples, ensuring consistency with release note guidance for custom lookups. This avoids the need for developers to audit both process_lhs() and as_sql() for tuple/list resilience when subclassing BuiltinLookup. (#36934) (#35972) -
SessionBase.__bool__() has been implemented, allowing session objects to be evaluated directly in boolean contexts instead of relying on truthiness checks. (#36899)
Django Fellow Reports
Django Fellow Report - Jacob
A short week with a US holiday and some travel to visit family, but still 4 tickets triaged, 12 reviewed, 3 authored, security report, and more.
Django Fellow Report - Natalia
Roughly 70% of my time this week went into security work, which continues being quite demanding. The remaining time was primarily dedicated to Mike’s excellent write-up on the dictionary-based EMAIL_PROVIDERS implementation and migration, along with a smaller amount of ticket triage and PR review.
Also 2 tickets triaged, 9 reviewed, and other misc.
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Articles
⭐ Django ORM Standalone⁽¹⁾: Querying an existing database
A practical step-by-step guide to using Django ORM in standalone mode to connect to and query an existing database using inspectdb.
Using tox to Test a Django App Across Multiple Django Versions
A practical, production-ready guide to using tox to test your reusable Django app across multiple Python and Django versions, complete with packaging, minimal test settings, and a full version matrix.
How I Use django-simple-nav for Dashboards, Command Palettes, and More
Jeff shares how he uses django-simple-nav to define navigation once in Python and reuse it across dashboards and even a lightweight HTMX-powered command palette.
Serving Private Files with Django and S3
Django’s FileField and ImageField are good at storing files, but on their own they don’t let us control access. When …
CLI subcommands with lazy imports
In case you didn't hear, PEP 810 got accepted which means Python 3.15 is going to support lazy imports! One of the selling points of lazy imports is with code that has a CLI so that you only import code as necessary, making the app a bit more snappy
Events
DjangoCon US Updated Dates
The conference is now August 24-28, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. The Call for Proposals (CFP) is open until March 16. And Early Bird Tickets are now available!
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Podcasts
Django Chat #196: Freelancing & Community - Andrew Miller
Andrew is a prolific software developer based out of Cambridge, UK. He runs the solo agency Software Crafts, writes regularly, is a former Djangonaut, and co-founder of the AI banking startup Hamilton Rock.
PyPodcats Episode 11 with Sheena O'Connell
Sheena O’Connell tells us about her journey, the importance of community and good practices for teachers and educators in Python, and organizational psychology. We talk about how to enable a 10x team and how to enable the community through guild of educators.
Django Job Board
This week there is a very rare Infrastructure Engineer position for the PSF.
Infrastructure Engineer at Python Software Foundation 🆕
Lead Backend Engineer at TurnTable
Backend Software Developer at Chartwell Resource Group Ltd.
Projects
yassi/dj-control-room
The control room for your Django app.
adamchainz/icu4py
Python bindings to the ICU (International Components for Unicode) library (ICU4C).
matagus/awesome-django-articles
📚 Articles explaining topics about Django like admin, ORM, views, forms, scaling, performance, testing, deployments, APIs, and more!
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