Last chance to run for the DSF Board

Django Software Foundation

Why you should run for the DSF Board, and my goals for the DSF in 2025 - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Applications are open for the 2025 Django Software Foundation Board of Directors – you can apply until October 25th. So, in this post I’ll do two things: try to convince you to run for the board, and document my goals and priorities for 2025.

Steering Council Wishlist for 6.X

Thoughts on what the upcoming Steering Council could/should work on.

Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Abigail Afi Gbadago from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 12 different contributors - including 3 first-time contributors 👏 Congratulations to YashRaj1506 🚀, Ahmed Ibrahim and Justin Thurman for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board! 🚀

Coming in Django 5.2

The new HttpResponse.text property has been added to provide text content for HTTP Responses (no more response.content.decode()!)
Overriding password validation error messages is now allowed as opposed to overriding the actual validation method
A new autodetector_class attribute has been added to the migration commands

Wagtail CMS

Wagtail 6.3a0 (LTS) release notes

For the upcoming Wagtail 6.3, which is designated as a Long Term Support (LTS) release.

Introducing the new starter kit for Wagtail CMS

Torchbox has released a new Wagtail News Template, designed to offer a high-performance, production-ready starter kit for Wagtail CMS, featuring a fully configured frontend and easy deployment to Fly.io.

Articles

Django from first principles, part 19 - Deploying a simple Django project.

This is the 19th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series is free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out.

Django and the Python 3.13 REPL

A working solution to using the new REPL in Django.

My Django wishlist explained

A lengthy and well-explained wishlist of future features/upgrades for Django.

Django's template-based form rendering: thoughts and pains

A collection of thoughts and impressions after moving to Django-native template-based form rendering with pretalx, my ~medium-sized(?) Django project.