News

Django Steering Council 2025 Year in Review

They've been busy! A new-features repo, Community Ecosystem page, administrative bits, and more.

Read the Docs: Making search faster for all projects

Read the Docs massively improved search latency by reindexing into multiple shards, tuning Elasticsearch queries and client, and fixing Django ORM N+1s and caching.

Releases

Python Insider: Python 3.15.0 alpha 6

Python 3.15.0a6 preview highlights a new low-overhead sampling profiler, UTF-8 default encoding, JIT performance gains, unpacking in comprehensions, and typing improvements.

Python Software Foundation

Python is for Everyone

Georgi from the PSF Diversity and Inclusion Working Group talks about the history of these efforts and most importantly, why it matters for all of us.

Wagtail CMS News

Wagtail nominated for TWO CMS Critic Awards! 🏆

Wagtail CMS is up for some trophies.

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 8 different contributors - including 2 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Patryk Bratkowski and ar3ph for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

It's fixed horizontal form field alignment issues within <fieldset> in admin. (#36788)

Django Fellow Reports

Fellow Report - Natalia

3 tickets triaged, 2 reviewed, 1 authored, security work, and other misc.

Fellow Report - Jacob

8 tickets triaged, 18 reviewed, 6 authored, 2 discussed, and other misc.

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Articles

Django Developer Salary Report 2026

An annual report from Foxley Talent on what's actually happening in the market.

Sorting Strategies for Optional Fields in Django

How to control NULL value placement when sorting Django QuerySets using F() expressions.

How to dump Django ORM data to JSON while debugging?

Sometimes, I need to debug specific high-level tests by inspecting what gets created in the database as a side effect. I could use a debugger and poke around the Django ORM at a breakpoint - but quite often it’s simply faster to dump the entire table to JSON, see what’s there, and then apply fixes accordingly.

Introducing: Yapping, Yet Another Python Packaging (Manager)

Yapping automates adding dependencies to pyproject.toml and running pip-tools compile/install, providing a simple, non-lockfile Python dependency workflow for Django projects.

Python: introducing icu4py, bindings to the Unicode ICU library

icu4py provides Pythonic bindings to ICU4C for locale-aware text boundary analysis and MessageFormat pluralization, enabling precise internationalization in Django apps.

Loopwerk: It's time to leave Heroku

Heroku is winding down; migrate Django apps now to alternatives like Fly.io, Render, or self-hosted Coolify and Hetzner to regain control, reliability, and lower costs.

Heroku Is (Finally, Officially) Dead

Analyzing the official announcement and reviewing hosting alternatives in 2026.

Videos

django-bolt - Rust-powered API Framework for Django

An overview from BugBytes on the new django-bolt package, describing what it is and how to use it!

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Podcasts

Django Chat #195: Improving Django with Adam Hill

Adam is the co-host of the Django Brew podcast and prolific contributor to the Django ecosystem with author of a multitude of Django projects including django-unicorn, coltrane, dj-angles, and many more.

Django Job Board

Lead Backend Engineer at TurnTable 🆕

Python Developer REST APIs - Immediate Start at Worx-ai

Backend Software Developer at Chartwell Resource Group Ltd.

Senior Django Developer at SKYCATCHFIRE

Projects

JohananOppongAmoateng/django-migration-audit

A forensic Django tool that verifies whether a live database schema is historically consistent with its applied migrations.

G4brym/django-cf

A set of tools to integrate Django with Cloudflare Developer platform.

DjangoAdminHackers/django-linkcheck

An app that will analyze and report on links in any model that you register with it. Links can be bare (urls or image and file fields) or embedded in HTML (linkcheck handles the parsing). It's fairly easy to override methods of the Linkcheck object should you need to do anything more complicated (like generate URLs from slug fields etc).