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PyCon Italia 2025

May 28, 2025 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

PyCon Italia is the national conference where professionals, researchers and enthusiasts of the most beautiful programming language gather together.

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DjangoCon Europe 2025

April 22, 2025 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

DjangoCon Europe is an international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in Europe.

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Checking In Is Fine

March 29, 2025 » james.walters.click » [Archived Version]

There's a post that's a couple of years old called "Any updates?". I saw it recently in Django News, but I think I've seen it before. It basically discourages you from commenting on GitHub Issues with "Any updates?" since 1) if there were any, they would be in the issue …

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Django News - 20 PRs Merged into Django Core This Week Alone! - Mar 28th 2025

March 28, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]

Updates to Django Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Abigail Afi Gbadago from the DSF Board and Djangonaut Space!🚀 Last week we had 20 pull requests merged into Django by 14 different contributors - including 4 first-time contributors! Congratulations to mguegnol, YQ, Filip Owczarek and Ahmed Nassar for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!🥳 This week’s Django highlights: The environment variable HIDE_PRODUCTION_WARNING has been cha…

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Django News - Django 5.2 RC1, Python 3.14 Alpha, and New Security Discussions - Mar 21st 2025

March 21, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Django 5.2 release candidate 1 released The final opportunity for you to try out a composite of new features before Django 5.2 is released. djangoproject.com Python 3.14.0a6 Release Python 3.14.0a6 alpha (Pi Day release) introduces deferred annotation evaluation and improved interpreter performance, offering potential efficiency gains for Django-based projects. python.org Discussion #154262: Ability to make Gi…

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Django 5.2 release candidate 1 released

March 19, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Django 5.2 release candidate 1 is the final opportunity for you to try out a composite of new features before Django 5.2 is released. The release candidate stage marks the string freeze and the call for translators to submit translations. Provided no major bugs are discovered that can't be solved in the next two weeks, Django 5.2 will be released on or around April 2. Any delays will be communicated on the on the Django forum. Please use this opportunity to help find and fix bugs (which should…

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Removing Model bases from migration state

March 19, 2025 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

When removing multi-table inheritance in Django, you need to remove your Model's bases from the migration's model state. This post goes into detail on when this comes up and how to resolve it.

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Checking Current User Permissions in Django Templates

March 18, 2025 » timonweb.com » [Archived Version]

When developing Django applications, we often need to control which parts of the UI are accessible based on user permissions. Luckily, Django provides a straightforward way to check user permissions directly in templates using the perms object. Using the perms Object in Django Templates Django automatically injects a perms context … Read now

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Django Query Optimization - Defer, Only, and Exclude

March 14, 2025 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]

In this article, we'll look at the differences between Django QuerySet's defer, only, and exclude methods.

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DSF member of the month - Cory Zue

March 14, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

For March 2025, we welcome Cory Zue (@coryzue.com) as our DSF member of the month! ⭐ Cory Zue has been Django developer for many years. He is currently a member of the DSF Social Media Working Group and he has been a DSF member since October 2022. You can learn more about Cory by checking out his website or visiting Cory's GitHub Profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Cory better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc) I'm a programmer-turned-manager-turned-e…

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