Psycopg 3.2 released
PSF Board Election, Wagtail Space US recap, test for pending migrations, an HTMX success story, and more.
News
The 2024 PSF Board Election is Open!
If you are a voting member of the PSF, it's time to vote for your next representatives and on three bylaw amendments.
Psycopg 3.2 released
After almost two years, 846 commits, more than 700 new tests, and more than 20000 changes in 310 files Psycopg 3.2 has been released!
Wagtail CMS News
Wagtail Space US 2024: Beating the heat with cool code
A recap (with photos!) of the recent three days of talks and sprints at Wagtail Space US in Philadelphia.
Updates to Django
Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Raffaella Suardini from Djangonaut Space!
Last week we had 19 pull requests merged into Django by 12 different contributors - including 3 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Raffaella, AjmalPonneth, and arjun omray for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
News in Django 5.2: The argument find is now deprecated in favor of find_all in django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.find().
Have you ever encountered the ORA-00600 error? In the Django Discord, there was a discussion to understand and focus on this problem, resulting in an open issue on Oracle.
In the Django Forum, there is an exciting update on the next step in DEP0009
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Where should DjangoCon US 2025 be?
Send us your venue proposal this summer! We are looking at conference dates of October 5-10, 2025 or October 12-17, 2025.
Articles
Django: Test for pending migrations
How to set up a test in your project’s “core” app to detect any missing migrations.
An HTMX success story
Notes on porting from Django+React to a Django+HTMX based stack.
Django and Semgrep: Enforcing a Service Layer Using Static Analysis
This article shows a rough-and-ready example of enforcing the simplest Service Layer pattern using Semgrep rules that can be checked in CI pipelines.
Docker Postgres Autoupgrades
Jeff shows us how upgrading your Postgres database in docker is as easy as changing your default image.
A Just recipe to backup and restore a Postgres database
Learn how to use this casey/just recipe to help backup and restore my Postgres databases in your Docker containers.
Videos
PyCon US 2024 Videos
PyCon US 2024 videos have started to be released, with more coming out weekly.
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Podcasts
Django Brew: Episode 3: Elusive Coffee in the Multiverse of PyCon
Sangeeta and Adam talk about going to PyCon US 2024 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Django Job Board
Senior remote Python developer wanted at FIRMA Engineering 🆕
Principal Software Engineer (Remote - USA Only) at U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms
Senior Back-End Engineer at Cube Software
Senior Python/Django Developper at Evaboot
Fractional CTO (Part-time and Remote in India) at Ecowiser
Projects
danihodovic/django-allauth-ui
Nice looking templates for django-allauth.
kaedroho/django-render
Build fast, user-friendly applications with Django and React.
JSv4/OpenContracts
Mass document analytics platform based on LlamaIndex, Pgvector, React and Django.
