Weeknotes (2024 week 37)

Weeknotes (2024 week 37)

django-debug-toolbar alpha with async support!

I have helped mentoring Aman Pandey who has worked all summer to add async support to django-debug-toolbar. Tim has released an alpha which contains all of the work up to a few days ago. Test it! Let’s find the breakages before the final release.

Dropping Python 3.9 from my projects

I have read Carlton’s post about the only green Python release and have started dropping Python 3.9 support from many of the packages I maintain. This is such a good point:

[…] I’m also thinking about it in terms of reducing the number of Python versions we support in CI. It feels like a lot of trees to support 5 full versions of Python for their entire life. 🌳

Releases

• django-debug-toolbar 5.0.0a0: See above.
• form-designer 0.26.2: The values of choice fields are now returned as-is when sending mails or exporting form submissions instead of only returning the slugified version.
• django-authlib 0.17.1: The role-based permissions backend had a bug where it wouldn’t return all available permissions in all circumstances, leading to empty navigation sidebars in the Django administration. This has been fixed.
• feincms3 5.2.3: Bugfix release, the page moving interface is no longer hidden by an expanded navigation sidebar. I almost always turn off the sidebar in my projects so I haven’t noticed this.
• django-prose-editor 0.8.1: Contains the most recent ProseMirror updates and bugfixes.
• django-content-editor 7.0.10: Now supports sections. Separate blog post coming up!