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Django earns the CHAOSS DEI Bronze badge 🫶

Jan. 19, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

We’re excited to announce that Django has been awarded the CHAOSS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Bronze Badge! This badge reflects our ongoing commitment to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community for all Djangonauts. It’s part of the CHAOSS DEI Project Badging initiative. Our new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Project Statement details all the ways in which we want to create an environment where everyone can participate and thrive, and complements our pre-exist…

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Hello from the new Steering Council; and a quick temporary voting process change

Jan. 16, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Hello Django community! The Steering Council is officially in action and we want to give you a heads up on a change we're making for the short-term. The process for formal Steering Council votes (documented in DEP 10) has not been working. It's our goal for the community to refresh Django's governance during the upcoming release cycle. In order to allow us to move forward now, and under supervision of the DSF Board, we are suspending use of the +1, 0, -1 public voting system in cases where a St…

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Django 5.2 alpha 1 released

Jan. 16, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Django 5.2 alpha 1 is now available. It represents the first stage in the 5.2 release cycle and is an opportunity for you to try out the changes coming in Django 5.2. Django 5.2 brings a composite of new features which you can read about in the in-development 5.2 release notes. This alpha milestone marks the feature freeze. The current release schedule calls for a beta release in about a month and a release candidate about a month from then. We'll only be able to keep this schedule if we get ea…

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Django security releases issued: 5.1.5, 5.0.11, and 4.2.18

Jan. 14, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing releases for Django 5.1.5, Django 5.0.11, and Django 4.2.18. These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible. CVE-2024-56374: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in IPv6 validation Lack of upper bound limit enforcement in strings passed when performing IPv6 validation could lead to a potential denial-of-service attack. The undocumented and …

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DSF member of the month - Hiroki Kiyohara

Jan. 9, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

This month marks the start of a new year, and the Django Software Foundation would like to wish you all a very happy new year. New year, new resolutions, but also the start of a new blog post series, with DSF members presented each month through an interview. A great way to learn more about the people behind Django, recognized for their contribution to the DSF mission. For January 2025, we welcome Hiroki Kiyohara (@hirokiky) as our DSF member of the month! ⭐ Hiroki is the creator and a staff me…

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Welcome to our new Django accessibility team members - Eli, Marijke, Saptak, Tushar

Dec. 24, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Sarah Abderemane, Thibaud Colas and Tom Carrick are pleased to introduce four new members in the Django Accessibility team ❤️. Marijke Luttekes Eliana Rosselli Tushar Gupta Saptak Sengupta Marijke (pronounced Mah-Rye-Kuh) is a freelance web developer who creates human-friendly applications. She is based in Groningen, The Netherlands, specializing in Django, Python, HTML, SCSS, and vanilla JavaScript. She helps companies expand their existing projects, think about new features…

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Django 6.x Steering Council Election Results

Dec. 18, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

The Steering Council for the Django 6.x release cycle will be: Carlton Gibson Emma Delescolle Frank Wiles Lily Foote Tim Schilling Voting breakdown: 400 eligible voters 215 votes received (54%) We had 400 eligible voters, and received 215 votes (54%). See the full voting breakdown on RankedVote. Congratulations to the new council members! And thank you to all 12 candidates who stood for election, and everyone who took part in the voting. — For anyone looking for further opportunities to hav…

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Django 6.x Steering Council Candidates

Dec. 11, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Thank you to the 12 individuals who have chosen to stand for election. This page contains their candidate statements submitted as part of the Django 6.x Steering Council elections. To our departing Steering Council members, Adam Johnson, Andrew Godwin, James Bennett, Simon Charette – thank you for your contributions to Django and its governance ❤️. Those eligible to vote in this election will receive information on how to vote shortly. Please check for an email with the subject line “Django 6…

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Django security releases issued: 5.1.4, 5.0.10, and 4.2.17

Dec. 4, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing releases for Django 5.1.4, Django 5.0.10, and Django 4.2.17. These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible. CVE-2024-53907: Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags() The strip_tags() method and striptags template filter are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs containing large sequences of neste…

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Help us make it happen ❤️

Dec. 4, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

And just like that, 2024 is almost over! If your finances allow, donate to the Django Software Foundation to support the long-term future of Django. 84% Of our US $200,000.00 goal for 2024, as of December 4th, 2024, we are at: 83.6% funded $167,272.85 donated Donate to support Django Oth…

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