Django 5.0 release candidate 1 released and Python 3.13.0 alpha 2

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Django 5.0 release candidate 1 released

Django 5.0 release candidate 1 is the final opportunity for you to try out a deluge of exciting new features before Django 5.0 is released.

Python 3.13.0 alpha 2 is now available

Python 3.13.0a2 is the second of seven planned alpha releases.

Updates to Django

Last week we had 17 pull requests merged into Django by 11 different contributors - including 4 first time contributors! Congratulations to Andrew Cordery, jed212, William Hayes and Giannis Terzopoulos for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

Some key updates from last week:

Python 3.12 support has been added to Django 4.2.8 (release scheduled for December 4th).
From Django 5.1, the HTML attribute aria-describedby is available on form fieldsets - enabling screen readers to associate fieldsets with their help text.
The Django accessibility team has publicly stated their targeted assistive technology support for the Django admin. If you are a user of any of these, we'd love for you to introduce yourself to the team in the Django Discord #accessibility channel 💚

The accessibility team is also looking for feedback on their guidelines for Django contributors. Both “general sentiment” comments and specific issues / possible improvements are very welcome!

Wagtail CMS

Wagtail CMS Accessibility Webinar

Join us on December 13th to explore accessibility within the world of Wagtail CMS. Whether you're a seasoned Wagtail editor, a developer, or on the hunt for an open-source CMS that prioritizes accessibility - this event is for you.

Articles

Django-related Deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2023

Adam Johnson has collected a number of discounts including for his books, Michael Yin's, SaaS Pegasus, Tango with Django, testdriven.io, and Will Vincent's.

How to find a ticket on Django's trac

A helpful guide to finding, filtering, assigning tickets to yourself on Django's trac.

Querying every file in every release on the Python Package Index

How to query every PyPI file in every release to examine programming language usage trends and metadata adoption.

Maybe Ignore type=search — Adrian Roselli

If you have a valid, accessible search field (with a useful, sensible label) then you can probably ignore type="search" and use type="text" instead. Lots of examples are included for every web browser.

Building a Bootstrap styled form in vanilla Django

A detailed look at rebuilding django-crispy-forms functionality using vanilla Django; no 3rd party packages allowed. Hint: it's hard!

A Disorganized List of Maintainer Tasks

A lengthy list of maintainer tasks from the maintainer of Flask, David Lord. It should provide some appreciation for the work our Django Fellows and others do!

Tutorials

How to Render Markdown in a Django Application

A good tutorial demonstrating how to add markdown to a Django app, display it in the templates, and format code snippets using Pygments.

Podcasts

Django Chat #151: Web Security with Mackenzie Jackson

Mackenzie is a developer advocate at GitGuardian. We discuss handling security reports in Django, the pros and cons of environment variables, why ChatGPT is a security concern and more.

Django News Jobs

Full Stack Python Developer at Loginsoft

Senior Python Engineer at Loginsoft

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Projects

radiac/django-flasky

Write a Django site which looks like Flask.

sampotts/plyr

A simple HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo player.

Django Forum

Django 5.0 string freeze is in effect, translations needed!

If you'd like to help translate the Django 5.0 docs, now is the time!

Django 5.0 release candidate 1 released and Python 3.13.0 alpha 2 November 24th 2023

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