Issue 347: Django 6.1 release candidate 1 released
News
Django 6.1 release candidate 1 released
This is the final opportunity to try out the new version before Django 6.1 is released. Try it, run your test suite, and report anything that breaks!
The DjangoCon US 2026 schedule has been released!
The talk lineup is out, covering Django 6.0 and 6.1 features, modern deployment patterns, GeoDjango at scale, and lightning talks across all three days.
PyPI Releases now reject new files after 14 days
PyPI will reject new files uploaded to releases older than 14 days to limit the impact of compromised publishing tokens or workflows.
Planned Updates to the PyPI User Interface
PyPI's first UI refresh since 2018 will roll out in phases over the coming months, surfacing more security signals on package pages. The first phase is staged on TestPyPI now and ready for your feedback.
Wagtail CMS News
What our AI guiding principles actually mean
Wagtail unpacks its refreshed AI guiding principles and how they steer adoption in practice, starting with a firm commitment: no AI dependency in Wagtail core, with AI features staying opt-in through packages like Wagtail AI.
Django Software Foundation
DSF Board monthly meeting, July 09, 2026
Minutes from this month's DSF Board meeting: a host for DjangoCon Europe 2027 was approved, a new Google Summer of Code Working Group was chartered, Executive Director hiring continues with guidance from the PSF, and grants went to PyCon Cameroon and PyCon Africa.
Updates to Django
Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀
Last week we had 17 pull requests merged into Django by 11 different contributors - including 6 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Tom Most, CharulL00, Sina Chaichi Maleki, Harvey Bellini, Stephanie and Vismay for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
News in Django 6.2:
- The
MiddlewareMixinclass moved fromdjango.utils.deprecationtodjango.middleware. The old import path is deprecated in Django 6.2. - Whether to suppress an
ImportErrorescaping from a settings module is configurable by the newBaseCommand.requires_settingsattribute (defaultTrue). In previous versions, such errors were always suppressed. - The minimum supported version of
asgirefis increased from 3.9.1 to 3.12.1.
Thanks to the continuous efforts of the contributors, a SQLite regression test has also been added to inspectdb when a table has a foreign key that references sqlite_master. (#25243)
Support for prefers-color-scheme was also implemented, adding dark mode CSS overrides for the technical 500 (traceback) and 404 debug views. (#35875)
Django Fellow Reports
Django Fellow Report - Natalia
A security-heavy week: two patches for confirmed vulnerabilities, deep-dive reviews of two more, and prep for the August release with CVE metadata and prenotifications, plus continued iteration on EmailValidator improvements.
Django Fellow Report - Sarah
Reviews across Django and djangoproject.com, including the Selenium to Playwright migration and admin widget fixes, plus a new GitHub Action to test djangoproject.com against Django main and engagement on six security issues across Django and djangoproject.com.
Django Fellow Report - Jacob
Sustained attention on a couple of security reports, alongside triage and a long review list covering dark mode error pages, Oracle Test Pilot in CI, and the asgiref 3.12 update that enables free-threading tests.
Python Software Foundation
Get Ready: PSF Board Nominations Opening Soon!
PSF Board nominations open July 28, with voting September 1–15. If you're a voting member, affirm your intent to vote by August 25.
Get Ready: 2026 Python Packaging Council Nominations Opening Soon!
Nominations for the first-ever Python Packaging Council open July 28 and close August 11.
Events
Django Girls Chicago - August 22, 2026
Django Girls returns the Saturday before DjangoCon US in Chicago: build your first website, eat free food, and meet fellow aspiring Django developers. The free workshop is limited to 45 people and applications close August 12, so apply early.
Preparing for sprints as a project leader (at DjangoCon US)
As DjangoCon US approaches in just a few weeks time, here are some good tips on how to make the most out of the sprints following the tutorial talks.
A First-Timer's Guide to Navigating America
If you are attending DjangoCon US, please do follow the news section of the website, as it has helpful articles like this one, as well as info on childcare at the conference, and more.
Sponsored Link
When is it worth paying for a mentor?
Thinking about hiring a mentor to grow as a Django developer? Here are a few honest questions to help you get clarity on whether now's the right time.
Articles
Django: introducing django-crawl
Adam Johnson introduces django-crawl, a new package that crawls your whole site with Django's test client (via links, sitemaps, or a Python API) to surface broken pages before your users do.
Nifty Django Feature: Form Templates
Django's form templates separate a form's HTML from the view that processes it: set template_name on the form for one reusable layout, or on an individual field when a single input needs custom markup.
Some more things about Django I've been enjoying
Building a “2010 style” backend-heavy web app, this writeup highlights Django’s readable query builders, handy template filters like querystring and json_script, and the comfort of automatic migrations. It also covers the author’s practical performance questions, including a misconfigured cached template loader and why it mattered.
Browser Push Notifications for a Django Website
A step-by-step tutorial on adding browser Web Push notifications to a Django site using VAPID keys, a service worker, and a Huey background task, so you get OS-level notifications even when the admin tab is closed.
Is it time to go back to Django?
Some arguments for Django's opinionated, batteries-included approach in the AI-coding era, since it limits the decisions an AI agent has to make and reduces the chance of it going astray.
Deploying Web Apps in 2026: My EuroPython Conference Talk
The written version of Will Vincent's EuroPython talk, which maps today's hosting landscape and builds a ten-step mental model of everything your dev server quietly handles for you, from WSGI servers and static files to running migrations at release time.
My EuroPython 2026 - Paolo Melchiorre
A day-by-day recap of Paolo Melchiorre's EuroPython 2026 in Kraków, compiled from Mastodon posts and photos, from the Python Steering Council update to rethinking asyncio for free-threaded Python and time with the Django community at the booth.
EuroPython 2026 Recap - Will Vincent
Highlights from a packed week in Kraków, where the standout theme was agentic AI workflows, with teams split between off-the-shelf tools and heavy internal tooling.
PyCon US 2026 Recap - Katherine Michel
Katherine's famous PyCon recap is here! Security and AI front and center, PSF and PyPI updates, steering council priorities for free-threading, and lots of great pictures.
Events
Django on the Med
Three days of Django development sprints, September 23-25 in Pescara, Italy. The second edition is free to attend and gathers Fellows, board and Steering Council members, and contributors new and experienced to push Django forward.
Django Day Copenhagen 2026
October 2 in Copenhagen. The first three talks are by Marijke Luttekes, Efe Öge, and Denny Biasiolli.
Django Job Board
Three new remote openings join the board this week, from AI-native full-stack work at Hive Collective to Django backend engineering for genetic testing at MyOme and Python + TypeScript roles at Fusionbox.
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Hive Collective 🆕
Senior Backend Engineer at MyOme 🆕
Python + TypeScript Engineers at Fusionbox 🆕
Freelance Full-Stack Web App Developer at Mindrift
Projects
adamchainz/django-crawl
An in-process site crawler using Django’s test client.
FROWNINGdev/django-orm-lens
See your entire Django schema (every model, field, and relationship) in your editor, terminal, or AI agent, one keystroke away from a live ER diagram.
