News
Django security releases issued: 4.2.1, 4.1.9, and 3.2.19
The Django team announces the release of Django 4.2.1, Django 4.1.9, and Django 3.2.19, addressing a security issue and urging users to upgrade promptly.
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Wagtail 5.0 is now available
Featuring dark mode, more image options with SVG support, enhanced accessibility checker, and more.
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Articles
3 Tips to Prepare Your Publisher Website for Traffic Spikes
Some tips for how to prepare for your website going viral.
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Django for Beginners 4.2 Update
What's new in the 4.2 edition update to the book, Django for Beginners.
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CSRF and Trusted Origins in Django 4.x+
A quick note and advice on managing CSRF and Trusted Origins.
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How we added SVG support to Wagtail 5.0
Wagtail 5.0 to introduce SVG image support, sponsored by YouGov, with a detailed blog post on enabling the feature, security, and implementation insights.
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Events
PyCon AU Call for Proposals
The CFP is open until May 14th and once again there is a dedicated DjangoCon AU track.
pycon.org.au
Tutorials
Upgrade PostgreSQL from 14 to 15 on Ubuntu 23.04
A guide on upgrading PostgreSQL from version 14 to 15 on Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster).
paulox.net
Videos
Citus Con: Maps with Django (and PostGIS)
View Paolo Melchiorre's Citus Con 2023 presentation on leveraging Django's GeoDjango for web mapping, geospatial data storage, and query execution, with examples from basic Spatialite/SQLite maps to advanced interactive PostGIS and PostgreSQL maps.
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Podcasts
Django Chat 139: Test and Code with Brian Okken
Brian is the host of the Test & Code podcast, co-host of the Python Bytes podcast, and author of the book Python Testing with pytest. We discuss testing in general, pytest in particular, and how to test Django projects.
djangochat.com
Projects
saxix/django-admin-extra-buttons
django-admin-extra-buttons is a rewrite of django-admin-extra-url, offering decorators that simplify the process of incorporating custom buttons on Django Admin pages and integrating views with any ModelAdmin.
django-q2/django-q2
A multiprocessing distributed task queue for Django based on Django-Q.
github.com
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