Django News - Last chance to run for the DSF Board - Oct 25th 2024
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Why you should run for the DSF Board, and my goals for the DSF in 2025 - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Applications are open for the 2025 Django Software Foundation Board of Directors – you can apply until October 25th. So, in this post I’ll do two things: try to convince you to run for the board, and document my goals and priorities for 2025.
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Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Abigail Afi Gbadago from Djangonaut Space!
Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 12 different contributors - including 3 first-time contributors 👏 Congratulations to YashRaj1506 🚀, Ahmed Ibrahim and Justin Thurman for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board! 🚀
Coming in Django 5.2
- The new HttpResponse.text property has been added to provide text content for HTTP Responses (no more
response.content.decode()!) - Overriding password validation error messages is now allowed as opposed to overriding the actual validation method
- A new autodetector_class attribute has been added to the migration commands
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