News

Python Developers Survey 2026

This is the ninth iteration of the official Python Developers Survey. It is run by the PSF (Python Software Foundation) to highlight the current state of the Python ecosystem and help with future goals.

Note that the official Django Developers Survey is currently being finalized and will come out hopefully in March or April.

The French government is building an entire productivity ecosystem using Django

In a general push for removing Microsoft, Google and any US or other non-EU dependency, the French government has been rapidly creating an open source set of productivity tools called "LaSuite", in collaboration with the Netherlands & Germany.

Django Packages : 🧑‍🎨 A Fresh, Mobile-Friendly Look with Tailwind CSS

As we announced last week, Django Packages released a new design, and Maksudul Haque, who led the effort, wrote about the changes.

Python Software Foundation

Dispatch from PyPI Land: A Year (and a Half!) as the Inaugural PyPI Support Specialist

A look back on the first year and a half as the inaugural PyPI Support Specialist.

Wagtail CMS News

Wagtail's new Security Announcements Channel

Wagtail now publishes security release notifications via a dedicated GitHub Security Announcements discussion category, with early alerts, RSS feed, and advisory links.

40% smaller images, same quality

Wagtail 7.3 ships with smarter image compression defaults that deliver roughly 40% smaller images with no visible quality loss, improving page speed, SEO, and reducing energy use out of the box.

Updates to Django

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

Last week we had 11 pull requests merged into Django by 7 different contributors - including 2 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Sean Helvey🚀 and James Fysh for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

• Added support for rendering named groups of choices using <optgroup> elements in admin select widgets (#13883).
• Dropped support for MariaDB 10.6–10.10 (#36812).

Django Fellow Reports

Fellows Report - Natalia

By far, the bulk of my week went into integrating the checklist-generator into djangoproject.com, which required a fair amount of coordination and follow-through. Alongside that, security work ramped up again, with a noticeable increase in incoming reports that needed timely triage and prioritization. Everything else this week was largely in support of keeping those two tracks moving forward.

Fellows Report - Jacob

Engaged in a fair number of security reports this week. Release date and number of issues for 6.0.2 to be finalized and publicized tomorrow.

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Articles

Django: profile memory usage with Memray

Use Memray to profile Django startup, identify heavy imports like numpy, and reduce memory by deferring, lazy importing, or replacing dependencies.

Some notes on starting to use Django

Julia Evans explains why Django is well-suited to small projects, praising its explicit structure, built-in admin, ORM, automatic migrations, and batteries-included features.

Quirks in Django's template language part 3

Lily explores Django template edge cases: now tag format handling, numeric literal parsing, and the lorem tag with negative counts, proposing stricter validation and support for format variables.

Testing: exceptions and caches

Nicer ways to test exceptions and to test cached function results.

I run a server farm in my closet (and you can too!)

One woman's quest to answer the question: does JIT go brrr?

Speeding up Pillow's open and save

Not strictly Django but from Python 3.15 release manager Hugo playing around with Tachyon, the new “high-frequency statistical sampling profiler” coming in Python 3.15.

Events

DjangoCon Europe CFP Closes February 8

DjangoCon Europe 2026 opens CFP for April 15 to 19 in Athens; submit technical and community-focused Django and Python talks by February 8, 2026.

Opportunity Grants Application for DjangoCon US 2026

Opportunity Grants Application for DjangoCon US 2026 is open through March 16, 2026, at 11:00 am Central Daylight Time (America/Chicago). Decision notifications will be sent out by July 1, 2026.

Videos

django-bolt - Rust-powered API Framework for Django

From the BugBytes channel, an 18-minute look at django-bolt including how and why you might use it.

Podcasts

Django Chat #194: Inverting the Testing Pyramid - Brian Okken

Brian is a software engineer, podcaster, and author. We discuss recent tooling changes in Python, using AI effectively, inverting the traditional testing pyramid, and more.

Django Job Board

Two new Django roles this week, ranging from hands-on backend development to senior-level leadership, building scalable web applications.

Backend Software Developer at Chartwell Resource Group Ltd. 🆕

Senior Django Developer at SKYCATCHFIRE

Django Codebase

Django Features

This was first introduced last year, but it's worth bringing renewed attention to this: a new feature proposals for Django and the third-party ecosystem.

Projects

FarhanAliRaza/django-rapid

Msgspec based serialization for Django.

adamghill/dj-toml-settings

Load Django settings from a TOML file.