Wagtail 6.2.1 release

News

PyPI Slashes Malware Response Time: 90% of Issues Resolved in Under 24 Hours

PyPI has drastically improved its malware response times, resolving 90% of issues in under 24 hours and removing 900 projects since March 2024.

Updates to Django

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

Last week we had 12 pull requests merged into Django by 9 different contributors - including 2 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Marc Picaud and Mohammad Salehi for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

News in Django 5.2:

Added support for validation of model constraints which use a GeneratedField.
The new Expression.set_returning attribute specifies that the expression contains a set-returning function, enforcing subquery evaluation. This is necessary for many Postgres set-returning functions.

Wagtail CMS

Wagtail 6.2.1 release notes

Four new bugfixes in the latest release.

Articles

Django UserProfile Model

How to set up a UserProfile model and a custom user model in your next Django project for maximum future flexibility.

How I handle versioning - Matthias Kestenholz

A somewhat unorthodox versioning method.

Limiting Content Types in a Django Model

This article looks at how to limit the content types in a Django model.

uv: Unified Python packaging

Today, the Astral team released a huge new release, uv 0.3.0, which adds a bewildering array of new features as part of their attempt to build "Cargo, for Python."

Custom Error Messages on Model Deletion in the Django Admin

A way to avoid accidentally deleting models.

Creating rows for django-tables2 with HTMX

A detailed look with code at using HTMX with tables in a production Django app.

Events

A First-Timer's Guide to Navigating America

If you are new to international travel to the United States of America, the DjangoCon US organizers have some good advice for what to expect and how to be as prepared as one can be.