News

Support the Django Software Foundation by buying PyCharm at a 30% Discount

The Django Software Foundation’s primary fundraiser has been extended, so you can get 30 percent off PyCharm Pro and support Django until November 19.

Call for Proposals for DjangoCon US 2026 Website!

DjangoCon US 2026 requests proposals to redesign branding, illustrations, and the 11ty and Tailwind website for Chicago, including swag, signage, and starter code.

“Boost Your GitHub DX” out now

Boost Your GitHub DX by Adam Johnson provides practical guidance on GitHub features, gh CLI, and Actions to streamline collaboration and speed software delivery.

Django Software Foundation

Five ways to discover Django packages

New Django ecosystem page plus resources like State of Django survey, Django Packages, Awesome Django, Reddit and newsletters help developers discover third-party Django packages.

Django at PyCon FR 2025

Highlights from PyCon France where 27 contributors joined together in sprints, discussions of Django's direction, htmx presentations, and more.

Python Software Foundation

Trusted Publishing is popular, now for GitLab Self-Managed and Organizations

Django projects can now use PyPI Trusted Publishing to securely publish packages, with GitLab Self Managed beta support and organization pending publishers.

Updates to Django

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

Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 11 different contributors - including 3 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Hal Blackburn, Mehraz Hossain Rumman, and Harsh Jain for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

Fixed a bug in Django 5.2 where proxy models having a CompositePrimaryKey incorrectly raised a models.E042 system check error.

Refactored async code to use asyncio.TaskGroup for cleaner, modern concurrency management. Thank you for the hard work on this. 🎉

Django Fellow Reports

Django Fellow Report - Natalia

A very security-heavy week . Most of my energy went into preparing and testing patches for the upcoming security release, including a tough vulnerability that I spent quite some time wrestling with. It was demanding and a bit exhausting, but everything is now on track for next week’s release.

Django Fellow Report - Jacob

This week we landed the JSONNull expression I mentioned last week. We also landed a follow-up to the database delete behavior feature to add support in inspectdb.

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Articles

Django Admin Deux: Bringing Django's Admin Back to Django

Django Admin Deux is a proof of concept admin built on Django generic class-based views, plugin-first architecture, and action-based CRUD.

Preserving referential integrity with JSON fields and Django

Adds referential integrity for model references stored in JSONField within Django by registering model links and enforcing on_delete protection using django-json-schema-editor.

Django-Tailwind v4.4: Now with Zero Node.js Setup via Standalone Tailwind CLI

Django-Tailwind 4.4 adds support for Tailwind's Standalone CLI via pytailwindcss, enabling Tailwind CSS workflows without requiring Node.js, and integrates it into manage.py.

django-deadcode: idea to release in under 2 hours

django-deadcode was prototyped and published in about two hours using Agent OS and Claude to analyze Django projects for removable dead code.

Events

Behind the Curtain as a Conference Chair

Chairing DjangoCon US 2025 taught that effective leadership means creating and holding welcoming spaces for community, volunteers, and speakers to collaborate and thrive.

Videos

PyBay 2025 - YouTube

PyBay 2025 features talks on Python tooling, robust testing, typing, async performance, LLM integration, and data validation relevant to Django backends.

The future of Python and AI with Guido van Rossum

Guido van Rossum discusses Python's role in the AI era, TypeAgent and typing tools like Pyright, and AI coding workflows with VS Code and Copilot. There are some nice Django and DjangoCon US shoutouts here.

Podcasts

Django Chat #189: Django 20 Years Later with Adrian Holovaty

Adrian finally agreed to come on the podcast! This episode was so much fun to record. Adrian is one of the original creators of Django and we discussed everything from initial design decisions with twenty years of hindsight, why modern JavaScript is so complicated, coding with LLMs, and much more.

Django Job Board

Looking for your next Django focused role? Here are the latest openings across security engineering, backend development, and university innovation.

Job Application for Senior Application Security Engineer at Energy Solutions - USA 🆕

Senior Python Developer at Basalt Health 🆕

Senior Back-End Developer at Showcare 🆕

Software Engineer Lead at Center for Academic Innovation, University of Michigan

Part-Time Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Python/Django) (gn) at voiio

Django Forum

DEP 15 - Improved startproject interface - Django Internals

DEP 15 standardizes and extends startproject to support multiple modern project layouts while preserving backwards compatibility and encouraging consistent, opinionated project structures.

Projects

stuartmaxwell/djcheckup

DJ Checkup is a security scanner for Django sites. This package provides a command-line interface to run the security checks against your Django site.

wsvincent/djangoforai

Django + local LLM + server side events + HTMX demo. As presented during DjangoCon US 2025 talk.