✨ Django 5.1 is out!

News

Django 5.1 released

Django 5.1 was released, featuring the new LoginRequiredMiddleware for easier authentication and several accessibility enhancements, including improved screen reader support and more semantic HTML elements. There is also a querystring template tag simplifies query string handling in templates.

Django security releases issued: 5.0.8 and 4.2.15

The Django team has issued security releases 5.0.8 and 4.2.15, addressing multiple vulnerabilities, including potential memory exhaustion, denial-of-service attacks, and SQL injection risks; users are advised to upgrade immediately.

Python 3.12.5 released

Python 3.12.5 is the latest maintenance release, containing more than 250 bug fixes, build improvements, and documentation changes since 3.12.4.

PSF News: Security Developer-in-Residence role extended thanks to Alpha-Omega

Thanks to continued support from Alpha-Omega, Seth Larson's role as Security Developer-in-Residence has been extended through the end of 2024, focusing on enhancing Python ecosystem security.

Updates to Django

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

Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 10 different contributors - including 2 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Jeremy Thompson and Lucas Esposito for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

Django 5.2 is introducing new form widgets:

A new class django.forms.TelInput, for telephone numbers, renders as <input type="tel" ...>.
A new class django.forms.ColorInput, for entering a color in rrggbb hexadecimal format, renders as <input type='color' ...>. Some browsers support a visual color picker interface for this input type.
A new class django.forms.SearchInput, for entering search queries, renders as <input type="search" ...>

Additionally, Django 5.2 includes an improvement where the attribute SafeExceptionReporterFilter.hidden_settings now treats values as sensitive if their name includes AUTH.

Articles

Anatomy of a web app

A five-part series of articles for junior and aspiring developers covering the high-level components of a web app: requests/responses, databases, AJAX, auth, and payment gateways.

The Stack Report - Locality of Behaviour

A meaty post from former Django Fellow Carlton Gibson on a way of thinking about and assessing code.

How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner

A high-level overview of how PostgreSQL stores data on disk, covering segments, pages and more.

TIL: Neapolitan: Everything I've Learned

Lacey covers the Neapolitan CRUD library, including Roles and custom template paths.

⬆️ Which Django and Python versions should I be using today?

Jeff shares his thoughts on when to make the latest Django and Python major versions his default versions.

Events

Announcing Our Keynotes: Mario Munoz

PyCon US 2024 Recap and Recording Release

PyCon US 2024 in Pittsburgh was a record-breaking success and all event recordings are now available on the PyCon US YouTube channel along with their recap summary.

Tutorials

How to Write an Installable Django App

Learn how to take an app out of a Django project and package it so that it’s installable. Once you’ve packaged your app, you can share it on PyPI so that others can fetch it through pip.