News
2025 DSF Board Nominations
Nominations are open for the 2025 Django Software Foundation Board of Directors and there are 4 positions currently open, with each position serving for two years.
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PyCharm & Django Campaign 2024 - encore
The Django Software Foundation's biggest fundraising event of the year is here!
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Updates to Django
Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Raffaella Suardini from Djangonaut Space!
Last week we had 18 pull requests merged into Django by 14 different contributors - including a first-time contributor! Congratulations to r0Zh-ovanya for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
News in Django 5.2:
- CharField.max_length is no longer required to be set on SQLite, which supports unlimited VARCHAR columns. PR #18582
- Data loaded from fixtures and from migrations enabled with
serialized_rollback=Trueare now available duringTransactionTestCase.setUpClass(). PR #18514 - Each serialization format now defines a
Deserializerclass, rather than a function, to improve extensibility when defining a custom serialization format. PR #18335
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Articles
nanodjango
A look at nanodjango, the latest in a long line of attempts to get Django to work with a single file.
What is Django?
Thoughts on what exactly is Django, from the folks at Foxley Talent and with feedback from Paolo Melchiorre and Mariusz Felisiak.
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A quick guide to platforms the Django Community uses
A look at commonly-used tools to stay in touch with the Django community.
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DjangoCon Design Reflection
A look at DjangoCon design iterations over the years from 2018 in San Diego to 2024 in Durham, NC.
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Videos
Django & Celery - A love story of async proportions by Hugo Bessa
Our first DjangoCon US 2024 talk has seen the light of day. Other videos will be released over the next month.
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Django News Jobs
Projects
radiac/nanodjango
Full Django in a single file - views, models, API, with async support. Automatically convert it to a full project.
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