News

Hitting the Home Stretch: Help Us Reach the Django Software Foundation's Year-End Goal!

Since last week, the Django Software Foundation has reached 95% of its goal, and I appreciate your consideration in helping it meet the remaining 5%.

DjangoCon Europe - Call for Proposals

The Call for Proposals (CFP) for DjangoCon Europe 2026 is officially open! This event will be in Athens, Greece, from April 15–19, 2026. Submission deadline: Sunday, February 8, 2026 (end of day)

Updates to Django

Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀

Last week we had 16 pull requests merged into Django by 15 different contributors - including 4 first-time contributors! Congratulations to H. White, Krishnaprasad MG, Jonathan Biemond, and Nilesh Pahari for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

News in Django 6.0:

• Fixed a regression that prevented changing the name of a ManyToManyField from taking effect when applying migrations. (#36800)
• Fixed a regression where querystring mishandled multi-value QueryDict keys, both by only preserving the last value and by incorrectly handling None values (#36783).

News in Django 6.1:

• The m2m_changed signal now receives a raw argument.
• parse_duration() now supports ISO 8601 durations expressed in weeks (PnW).
• The loaddata command now callsm2m_changed signals with raw=True when loading fixtures.

Articles

Querying Django Tasks

Django 6.0’s new tasks framework makes it possible to discover, inspect, and run tasks across your project without Celery, and this post shows how to programmatically find and execute those tasks using app imports and backend-aware Task inspection.

Speed or Power? With Django, you don’t have to choose. 🚀

Django’s batteries included design lets developers move fast while still delivering secure, scalable, and production ready web applications.

PEP 770 Software Bill‑of‑Materials (SBOM) data from PyPI, Fedora, and Red Hat

PEP 770 is now live, enabling standardized SBOMs inside Python wheels, with early adoption across PyPI, auditwheel, Fedora, and Red Hat to improve supply chain transparency and reduce vulnerability scan false positives.

Getting Started with Django - Project Setup

A beginner-friendly walkthrough that shows how to set up a clean Django project from scratch using virtual environments, a flat project layout, and a quick sanity check with the development server.

My DjangoCon Africa 2025, and UbuCon Africa 2025

Personal recap of DjangoCon Africa 2025 highlighting community driven talks, accessible Django contributions, secure Metabase embeddings, workshops that enabled beginners to contribute to open source.

My 2026 year in review

A solo Django developer reflects on a packed 2025, covering consistent blogging, AI-assisted product building, community involvement at DjangoCon Europe, and lessons learned balancing startups, client work, and open source.

Events

DjangoCon US: Call for Venue Proposals 2027-28

DjangoCon US 2026 is tentatively planning to return to Chicago. Where will we be the following year or two? We need your help in making that decision!

Podcasts

Django Chat #192: From Bootcamp to Project Manager - Keanya Phelps

Keanya is a project manager at Caktus Group and Chair of DjangoCon US this year. We discuss her transition into coding via a bootcamp, working as a software engineer, using AI on the job, and her current role as a project manager.

Django Job Board

We’ve got a fresh batch of new Python and Django roles this week, including senior, security-focused, and founding engineer positions across remote and hybrid teams.

Senior Python Developer at Cial Dun & Bradstreet 🆕

Software Engineer at Internet Archive 🆕

Founding Full-Stack Senior Engineer (UK ONLY) - Fully Remote at MyDataValue 🆕

Python/Django Senior Application Security Engineer at Energy Solutions

Python / Django Developer at Client of Foxley Talent

Staff Software Engineer at Bluebird Kids Health

Projects

loopwerk/django-generic-notifications

A flexible, multi-channel notification system for Django applications with built-in support for email digests, user preferences, and extensible delivery channels.

huynguyengl99/chanx

A batteries-included WebSocket framework for Django Channels, FastAPI, and ASGI-based applications.

codingjoe/django-crontask

Cron style scheduler for Django's task framework.