Django security releases issued: 5.0.3, 4.2.11, and 3.2.25

News

Django security releases issued: 5.0.3, 4.2.11, and 3.2.25

A new security release addressing a potential regular expression denial-of-service. As always, the best security measure is to stay up-to-date with the latest version of Django.

Google Summer of Code 2024

Django is once again part of Google's Summer of Code. This long-running program has resulted in many key contributions to Django over the years.

Wagtail CMS

Making wagtail.org more accessible

Wagtail.org, with help from Outreachy, performed an accessibility audit and published the results.

Articles

How to spend less time writing Django tests

Autogenerating Django integration tests using Kolo and trace inversion.

Things I'd Like to See in a DjangoCon US 2024 Talk

Drew Winstel is the Vice President of DEFNA, the group that organizes DjangoCon US every year, and the current program chair. In this piece he writes suggestions for what topics would be good in a talk.

DjangoCon US 2024 Topics Inspiration List

Kati is a DEFNA Director and presents a very thorough list of talk ideas for DjangoCon US.

Importing data with Django Ninja's ModelSchema

Jeff wrote about using Django Ninja's ModelSchema to translate a Django model from one structure to another.

JavaScript Bloat in 2024

A detailed look at the average size of JavaScript code downloaded per several major websites.

Where Does Validation Occur?

A look at where validation occurs in an application with a Django REST Framework backend and dedicated frontend.

Events

DjangoCon US 2024 Call for Proposals is Open!

Submit your talk or tutorial proposal by April 24, 2024 at 12 PM EDT, and encourage your friends and colleagues to do the same.

Tutorials

LearnDjango: Django Blog Tutorial

How to build a basic blog application in Django using models, views, URLs, and templates.

Videos

DjangoCon US 2023: Mario Munoz - Back to the Future of Hypermedia in Django

One of the most popular toolkits in the Python space is htmx, offering a simple, declarative approach to AJAX and Server Sent Events directly from your HTML. While this trend is taking shape in the Python ecosystem as a whole, Django goes even further, providing a maturing set of patterns, tooling, and projects that take full advantage of these new (old?) paradigms.

DjangoCon US 2023: Scott Cranfill - Best Practices for Making a Wagtail Site as Accessible as Possible

This talk is focused on the latter, showing how you (a developer of a Wagtail-powered site) can set up your models, templates, and workflows in order to make it as easy as possible for your editors to create websites that are as accessible as possible.

DjangoCon US 2023: Denny Biasiolli - Django migrations, friend or foe? Optimize Django migrations for faster testing

Django migrations can become very numerous over time and take a long time to create a test database. This talk looks at several techniques for optimizing your migrations to improve performance.

Podcasts

Talk Python: Djangonauts, Ready for Blast-Off

Sarah Boyce and Tushar Gupta talk about the wonderful Djangonaut program, its first cohort, current group, and plans for the future.

Django Chat #158: The Future of Python with Deb Nicholson

Deb is the Executive Director of the Python Software Foundation and a longtime member of open-source communities. We discuss the work of an executive director, the PSF’s new Developers-in-Residence, recent legislative efforts, and how software nonprofits function day to day.