May 16, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The Steering Council for the Django 5.x release cycle will be: Simon Charette Andrew Godwin Adam Johnson James Bennett Congratulations to the new council, and a special thank you for the departing members Thomas Forbes and Florian Apolloner. Thank you to everyone who participated in the nominations and voting. Voting breakdown: 268 eligible voters 74 votes received There were not enough candidates to fill the positions available, so all candidates were successful. Full voting breakdown avai…
Read MoreMay 16, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
I wanted to share today some of the great things that DSF donations go towards. This month was a particularly big month in grant approval, so I wanted to highlight some of those, and with it, some of the exciting things happening in the Django community. $6,000 to DjangoCon Africa The first DjangoCon Africa was scheduled to take place in 2020. However, with the global health situation as it was, 2023 is now the inaugural DjangoCon Africa, and the DSF is excited to be part of that. This gra…
Read MoreMay 10, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The African Django community is excited to announce the first DjangoCon Africa event, taking place this year in Zanzibar, Tanzania, from 6th - 11th November 2023. The first event since the global pandemic postponed our planning in 2020. We are thrilled to convene, support one another and give back to the African Python web community now that travel and health safety guidelines have normalized. DjangoCon Africa 2023 will be held at the State University of Zanzibar where we have three meeting r…
Read MoreMay 3, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing Django 4.2.1, Django 4.1.9, and Django 3.2.19. These releases addresses the security issue detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible. CVE-2023-31047: Potential bypass of validation when uploading multiple files using one form field Uploading multiple files using one form field has never been supported by forms.FileField or forms.ImageField as only the last uploaded file was validate…
Read MoreApril 23, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
With the completion of the Django 4.x major release cycle and in accordance with DEP-0010 and DEP-0012, it is now time to collect candidates for the Django Steering Council. Steering council candidates must demonstrate: A history of substantive contributions to Django or the Django ecosystem. This history must begin at least 18 months prior to the individual's candidacy for the Steering Council, and include substantive contributions in at least two of these bullet points: Code contributions on…
Read MoreApril 22, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
Please note: this post has been retracted, with https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/apr/22/steering-council-candidate-registration/ replacing it. The candidacy requirements were updated in DEP-0012, along with the name of the group from "Technical Board" to "Steering Council". --- With the completion of the Django 4.x major release cycle and in accordance with DEP-0010, it is now time to collect candidates for the Django Technical Board. Technical board candidates must…
Read MoreApril 16, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The release of Django 4.2 represents the final feature release of a major release series of Django. Per DEP-0010 this release triggers the election for the Technical board for the Django 5.x release cycle. All individual DSF members are automatically registered electors. If you are not a DSF member and would like to apply to vote you need to register here. The process of electing a new Technical Board will be: Registration of Electors is now open, and will close Friday April 21, 2023 AoE. Regi…
Read MoreApril 5, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
Today we've issued the 4.1.8 bugfix release. The release package and checksums are available from our downloads page, as well as from the Python Package Index. The PGP key ID used for this release is Mariusz Felisiak: 2EF56372BA48CD1B.
Read MoreApril 3, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 4.2. This version has been designated as a long-term support (LTS) release, which means that security and data loss fixes will be applied for at least the next three years. It will also receive fixes for crashing bugs, major functionality bugs in newly-introduced features, and regressions from older versions of Django for the next eight months until December 2023. The release notes cover the farrago of new features in detail, but a few …
Read MoreMarch 31, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The DSF Board and Fellows Committee are pleased to introduce Natalia Bidart as our new Django Fellow. Natalia will be joining Mariusz Felisiak who is continuing his long and excellent tenure as a Fellow. Natalia is a Python expert with almost 15 years of experience working with Django. She graduated from the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, with a degree in Computer Science in 2007, and began her professional career in 2005 working for a Python startup before joining Canonical in 200…
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