Aug. 14, 2024 » Matthias Kestenholz: Posts about Django » [Archived Version]
Weeknotes (2024 week 33) Partying It’s summer, it’s hot, and it’s dance week. Lethargy is over, Jungle Street Groove is coming up. Good times. Releases django-json-schema-editor 0.1: I have finally left the alpha versioning. I’m still not committing to backwards compatibility, but I have started writing a CHANGELOG. django-prose-editor 0.7.1: Thanks to Carlton’s pull request I have finally cleaned up the CSS somewhat and made overriding the styles more agreeable w…
Read MoreAug. 14, 2024 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
The Python Software Foundation made me a PSF fellow member, along with Adam Johnson.
Read MoreAug. 13, 2024 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]
argparse, the standard library module that Django uses for parsing command line options, supports sub-commands. These are pretty neat for providing an expansive API without hundreds of individual commands. Here’s an example of using sub-commands in a Django management command: from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand class Command …
Read MoreAug. 9, 2024 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Django 5.1 released Django 5.1 was released, featuring the new LoginRequiredMiddleware for easier authentication and several accessibility enhancements, including improved screen reader support and more semantic HTML elements. There is also a querystring template tag simplifies query string handling in templates. djangoproject.com Django security releases issued: 5.0.8 and 4.2.15 The Django team has issued security releases 5.0.8 and …
Read MoreAug. 7, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 5.1. The release notes showcase a kaleidoscope of improvements. A few highlights are: Easier guardrails for authentication: the new and shiny LoginRequiredMiddleware, when added to MIDDLEWARE, enforces authentication for all views by default. A more inclusive framework: Django 5.1 includes several accessibility enhancements, such as improved screen reader support in the admin interface, more semantic HTML elements, and better associati…
Read MoreAug. 6, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing releases for Django 5.0.8 and Django 4.2.15. These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible. CVE-2024-41989: Memory exhaustion in django.utils.numberformat.floatformat() The floatformat template filter is subject to significant memory consumption when given a string representation of a number in scientific notation with a large exponent. Thanks …
Read MoreAug. 2, 2024 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Python Insider: Python 3.13.0 release candidate 1 released This is the first release candidate of Python 3.13.0. blogspot.com setuptools 72.0.0 removes the test command If you used setup.py test to test your Python packages, you will need to migrate to another test runner. After five years of deprecation warnings, the test command has finally been removed. pypa.io django-allauth 64.0.0 released A numbe…
Read MoreAug. 2, 2024 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]
pip sometimes returns a checksum error when the urllib3 library is unable to parse a received TLS packet due to a network error. This pip issue will be resolved in 2025 when Python 3.9 is EOL, but you can get around it today by using wget or curl.
Read MoreJuly 31, 2024 » Matthias Kestenholz: Posts about Django » [Archived Version]
Weeknotes (2024 week 31) I have missed almost two months of weeknotes. I’ve got some catching up to do. I have tried writing a larger piece on my thoughts about CMS, but with everything going on in my personal and work life I haven’t made much progress. This weeknotes entry is me trying to get back into the groove of writing (and publishing!) regularly. django-prose-editor I have previously written about the ProseMirror-based editor for Django websites here. I have continued working…
Read MoreJuly 27, 2024 » james.walters.click » [Archived Version]
Man, I love PyOhio! Last year was my first one, and I was so thrilled to hear that this year's event was going to be in person for the first time since COVID. I absolutely wanted to be a part of it, and I'm so glad I got to be …
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