News
Wagtail 4.0 released
A quick tour of Wagtail 4.0 demoing new features around creating and managing content. See the full release notes as well.
django-developers #21978 on inclusion of a production-ready web server
Updated discussion around an old ticket to include a production-ready web server in Django.
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Articles
Google Summer of Code - Blog 2
Deepak Dinesh is a Google Summer of Code student and provides an update on his project to improve Django benchmarking.
Upgrading to PostgreSQL 14
Tips for upgrading especially since Django 4.1 dropped support for PostgreSQL 10.
Programmatically Modifying a Wagtail StreamField
StreamFields are one of the most powerful features of Wagtail. Here is a formula to modify them programmatically as needed.
Events
Everything you need to know about DjangoCon US 2022
This week the DjangoCon US organizers, including Jeff, recorded a Twitter Space to help get the word out about the return of DjangoCon US to their first in-person/hybrid event since 2019.
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Podcasts
Django Chat #120: Django @Instagram w/ Carl Meyer (Ep78 Replay)
Carl is a former core Django developer and now works at Instagram which was built with Django. We discuss internet-scale with Django/Python and Carl's current work.
Talk Python #379: 17 Libraries You Should Be Using in Django
Guest Christopher Trudeau talks through his 17 favorite libraries you should be using in Django.
Projects
schinckel/django-shared-property
Properties that are both ORM expressions and python code. (via @MariuszFelisiak)
saadmk11/redis-search-django
Django package that provides auto indexing and searching capabilities for Django model instances using RediSearch.