News

PyCharm Campaign Now Includes RENEWALS!

Past or current PyCharm Pro users can now take part in the PyCharm campaign! Add 12 months to your current PyCharm Pro subscription. The same deal applies to past, current, or first time users. Get PyCharm Pro 30% off and 100% goes directly to the DSF! Until May 3rd.

Adopt Annual Release Cycle (DEP 20)

A new DEP from Carlton Gibson proposing that Django move to an annual release cycle. There is a lengthy discussion on the GitHub ticket

What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns!

A detailed post of new features from Richard Si, the current maintainer, including pylock files, dependency cooldowns, security fixes, and more.

Django Software Foundation

It's time to redesign djangoproject.com

A redesign of the djangoproject.com website is in progress. This post from the Django blog is an update on the project's process: the plan, who’s doing the work, and how you can help.

Updates to Django

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

Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 13 different contributors - including a first-time contributor! Congratulations to Dinesh Thumma for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

All release note–related changes this week came from Djangonaut Space. 🚀

• Added ModelAdmin.delete_confirmation_max_display option to truncate the list of related objects on the delete confirmation page in django/contrib/admin/options.py, added in Django 6.1 (#10109).
• Fixed the inaccessible "---------" blank choice label in form <select> controls by replacing it with "- Select an option -" via a new BLANK_CHOICE_LABEL setting in django/conf/global_settings.py, added in Django 6.1, and deprecated BLANK_CHOICE_DASH (#35879).

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Articles

Running from Django’s main development branch in production

Carlton Gibson makes the case for running Django off of Django's main development branch rather than waiting for security and feature releases.

Before GitHub

Armin Ronacher, of Flask and other open-source Python fame, looks wistfully at GitHub's decline and points out that Open Source did not always work this way.

Leaving GitHub as a Social Network

David Guillot points out the many red lines that Microsoft has recently crossed and debates other alternatives.

pgBackRest is dead. Now what?

One of several posts on the longtime sole maintainer of pgBackRest stepping away. This is a fundamental tool for PostgreSQL and a general failure in the open source ecosystem. Additional posts by Jan, Christophe, Stefanie, and Jay.

Django Fellows Update

Fellow Report - Natalia

Another busy week triaging six tickets, reviewing six more, security reports, meetings, and discussions around the recent DEP 20.

Fellow Report - Sarah

Finished up Navigator duties for Djangonauts, managed tickets and security work, and weighing in on anew-features suggestion for Django Admin actions configurable as buttons.

Fellow Report - Jacob

A four day week after returning from DjangoCon yielded some wins like merging @annalauraw’s work on improved blank choice labels in forms and @rodbv’s work on truncating huge deletion confirmation pages in the admin.

Podcasts

Django Chat #201: DjangoCon Europe Recap + Other News - Jeff Triplett

Jeff is President of the Django Software Foundation and a partner at REVSYS. We discuss the recently held DjangoCon Europe conference, existing Django news, and then share notes on current AI-powered workflows. Also available in video format on YouTube.

Events

DjangoCon US Sponsorship Opportunities

DjangoCon US is August 24-28 this year in Chicago. There are still sponsorship opportunities available (hint, hint) for any companies that want to participate.

EuroPython 2026 tickets now available

This year's conference is in Krakow, Poland from July 13-19, covering two days of tutorials, three days of talks, and two days of sprints.

Django Day Copenhagen Tickets Available

This event is October 2nd and early bird tickets are now available. Note that the event can sell out due to the size of the venue.

PyCon US 2026 - How to Convince Your Boss

PyCon US is fast approaching. If you and your colleagues want to attend, we have a short template to help you discuss the conference at work.

Django London Meetup

Two talks at this event May 7th at Kraken Tech: a talk by Paolo Melchiorre on Django's GeneratedField and Django in the Lab by Andy Woods.

Projects

jsheffie/django-schematic

An interactive graph of your Django model structure. With related blog post.

The Fixi Project

From the creator of HTMX, a collection of five small web libraries based on other libraries they work on. See the related website for more information.