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News

Welcome our new Django Fellow

Sarah Boyce is the newest Django Fellow! Read more about her background as a software developer and active member of the Django community.

PyPI halted new users and projects while it fended off supply-chain attack

PyPI temporarily halted new project creation and new user registration following an onslaught of package uploads that executed malicious code on any device that installed them.

DEFNA! Board Member Recruitment

Django Events Foundation North America (DEFNA), the non-profit behind DjangoCon US is looking for another board member.

Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Pradhvan from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 12 pull requests merged into Django by 7 different contributors - including 2 first time contributors! Congratulations to Laurent Lyaudet, and Sharon Woo for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

In Django 5.1, an optional srid argument was added to FromWKB and FromWKT GIS functions that allows to specify the SRID (Spatial Reference System Identity) of the resulting geometry.

Wagtail CMS

Technical writing, asking for help, and other things I learned during my Outreachy internship

A few lessons learned by the author during their first time working on a large-scale open-source project.

Articles

Django Streaming HTTP Responses

How and when to use Streaming HTTP responses and when not to.

Custom localhost URLs with Caddyfile on macOS

Are you a developer who uses macOS, and do you want to add project names to your localhost development URLs? Marijke shows us how.

The Django admin is a CMS

Some thoughts on the Django admin given recent online discussions about how it is "ugly."

Django: Write-up on optimizing the system check framework

Adam Johnson provides a detailed explanation of ways to speed up the system check framework in Django.

How to get your issue looked at quickly

Former Django Fellow Carlton Gibson has some sage advice on moving your specific issue to the top of the queue in an open source project.

Djangonaut Space: 2024 Session 1 Mission Debrief

A look at the work of eight Djangonauts during the most recent 8-week session, which led to 23 merged PRs into Django (29 PRs total), 28 blog posts, 6 Django News "Updates to Django," and more.