Django 5.1.7, 5.0.13, and 4.2.20

News

Django security releases issued: 5.1.7, 5.0.13, and 4.2.20

Django releases critical security patches in versions 5.1.7, 5.0.13, and 4.2.20 to address a potential denial-of-service vulnerability in the django.utils.text.wrap() and wordwrap functions.

Join the DEFNA Board as Corporate Secretary!

DEFNA is seeking a Corporate Secretary to support its board by managing compliance, record-keeping, and communications for the DjangoCon US community.

Django for APIs (5th Edition)

The fifth edition of the book, Django for APIs, has now been released and is available as either an online course or in paperback.

Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Abigail Afi Gbadago from the DSF Board and Djangonaut Space!🚀

Last week we had 7 pull requests merged into Django by 6 different contributors - including a first-time contributor! Congratulations to Jonathan Ströbele for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!🎉

This week's Django Highlights:

A forloop.length variable has been added to track the number of iterations within a template for the loop.
Django has published new security reporting guidelines to help reporters understand our security policies.

Wagtail CMS

Working with Wagtail CMS

Wagtail CMS enhances Django development by streamlining content management with a polished admin interface and flexible, code-driven customization.

Looking for sponsorship: SEO power tools

Wagtail seeks sponsors to integrate advanced SEO capabilities, including meta previews, automated checks, and AI-driven enhancements directly within the CMS.

Articles

Ditching Django Admin for FastHTML with HTMX

Build a focused platform monitoring dashboard in 142 lines of Python using FastHTML, HTMX auto-refresh, and simple cookie-based auth to overcome the limitations of Django Admin.

Handling spatial data in Django using PostGIS

Learn how to integrate and manage spatial data in Django with PostGIS, including configuring models, admin, and running the setup using Docker.

Introducing django-remake-migrations

django-remake-migrations offers a command to rebuild and squash migrations across all Django apps, streamlining the migration process for medium to large projects.

Django Admin’s handling of dates and times is very confusing

Enhance Django Admin's date and time inputs by allowing clear time zone selection to avoid confusion between server, local, and UTC times.

Django-treebeard: Converting an Existing Model to MP_Node

Learn how to convert an existing Django tree model into an MP_Node Materialized Path structure using a strategic migration that temporarily adjusts field constraints to handle non-nullable unique fields.

How to Deploy Selectively to Production

Use hotfix branches with Git Flow and cherry-picking to deploy a chosen set of bug fixes and small code changes directly to production.

Videos

My 2025 uv-based Python Project Layout for Production Apps

Hynek Schlawack demonstrates a modern, uv-based Python project layout using dependency groups and updated packaging techniques to streamline production deployments—insights that can benefit Django developers too.