News

DSF 2026 Fundraising Goals

The Django Software Foundation is raising its 2026 annual fundraising goal from $300,000 to $500,000. The money supports the Django Fellows program, legal and trademark work, community grants and events, ongoing infrastructure, and progress toward hiring an Executive Director.

Announcing Our DjangoCon US 2026 Talks!

DjangoCon US 2026 released its tutorial and talk lineup for Aug 24 to Aug 26, with live access for online-only ticket holders and free YouTube uploads after the conference. Expect sessions spanning Django 6.1 and modern ORM patterns, performance testing, Wagtail routing, Postgres updates, and deployment topics, with the final schedule to follow soon.

Vulnerability and malware checks in uv

uv introduces uv audit to scan locked dependencies for known vulnerabilities and adverse statuses, positioned as a faster uv-native alternative to pip-audit.

Updates to Django

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

Last week we had 16 pull requests merged into Django by 11 different contributors - including 5 first-time contributors! Congratulations to jodizzle, Bankai, Chris Rose, esperonus-karolis and Wes P. for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

This week's Django highlights: 🦄

• Made DjangoJSONEncoder consistently omit the .000 fractional-second suffix when serializing datetime and time values that have no meaningful microseconds. (#37108)
• Added a new listurls management command to display all registered URL patterns in a Django project. 🐍 (#28800)
• Limited the number of related objects shown in inline formset validation error messages to prevent excessively long error output. (#36984)
• Changed SIGNED_COOKIE_LEGACY_SALT_FALLBACK to default to False and began deprecating the transitional compatibility setting. (CVE-2026-6873)

Releases

Python 3.14.6 and 3.13.14 are now available!

Python 3.14.6 is out as the sixth 3.14 maintenance release, with about 179 bugfixes plus build and documentation updates since 3.14.5. Python 3.13.14 follows as the fourteenth 3.13 maintenance release, adding around 240 bugfixes along with build and documentation changes since 3.13.13.

Core Dispatch #5

Python 3.15.0 beta 2 landed June 2, with another round of milestones due June 9 and June 23. Expect the practical stuff in 3.15 including a fixed O(n^2) blowup in unicodedata.normalize, XML multi-byte encoding support, and fresh deprecation warnings around ast and abc abstract* helpers, alongside an initial documented Python security policy in the Devguide.

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Middleware, but for AI agents

Django middleware composes request handlers. Harnesses do the same for AI agents - Claude Code, Codex, Gemini in one coordinated system. Learn what a harness actually is, why it's a new primitive, and how to engineer one that holds in production. Apache 2.0, open source.

Articles

My Local LLM Setup - Fast Agentic Development with No Token Bill

From Peter Grandstaff, a write-up of his maxxed-out local LLM setup using an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 video card. A very cool setup and one which many of us will likely be using some version of in the future.

Logical optimizations

Nested if blocks can often be rewritten as a single conjunction, but only when each if fully owns the body with no else or trailing code.

Browser Push Notifications for a Django Website

Set up browser push notifications end to end: store push subscriptions in Django, register/unregister via authenticated endpoints, and send notifications from a Huey background task using pywebpush with VAPID.

Anything new?

Maintainer Matthias Kestenholz explains why stepping away from django-mptt is hard, and how entitlement in issue trackers turns “free labor” into a burnout trap.

PyCon US 2026 - Open Source Community in Long Beach — Peter Grandstaff

Another one from Peter Grandstaff, a day-by-day PyCon US 2026 trip focused on building Django connections, sponsorship work for DjangoCon US, and catching talks on developer experience and open source community support.

Django Forum

Switch to Playwright tests for integration testing

This project aims to modernize Django’s integration testing by introducing Playwright as an alternative to Selenium.

Proposal: Leverage Oracle Test Pilot for Django CI

A proposal from the Oracle Test Pilot for Third-Party Software program building Oracle Test Pilot to provide access to the latest versions of the Oracle databases to Django on GitHub, for free.

Django Fellow Reports

Natalia Bidart

This week was quite intense, with most of the focus 🔍 on getting the security release out the door 🚪. Issuing the release for the 5 CVEs took a fair amount of coordination and attention to detail, and definitely consumed a good chunk of brain power 🧠 ⚡.

Alongside that, there were a number of meetings throughout the week, so overall it was a mix of high-focus release work and keeping in sync with the different groups 🤝. Bonus: the final DEP 0018 for MAILERS was approved, moved to the accepted folder, and merged ✅.

Jacob Walls

A highlight this week was landing the listurls command modeled on django-extensions. Many tickets triaged, reviewed, authored, and discussed.

Events

Announcing Our DjangoCon US 2026 Talks!

The complete lineup of talks, August 24-26, is now live! So many great talks coming up.

Django Meetup Vol. 78 / Beyond Boilerplate: Building Maintainable CRUD in Django

Django Meetup Cologne Vol. 78 will take place on the 16th of June 2026, online and in person.

Django Job Board

Founding ML/Data Scientist (Remote, UK) at MyDataValue 🆕

Projects

django-helpdesk/django-helpdesk

A Django application to manage tickets for an internal helpdesk. Formerly known as Jutda Helpdesk.

emmett-framework/granian

A Rust HTTP server for Python applications.