Dec. 13, 2024

Django News - Django 6.x Steering Council Candidates - Dec 13th 2024

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Django 6.x Steering Council Candidates

There are 12 individuals who have chosen to stand for election and written statements of intent. Existing individual members are eligible to vote.

Voting is open until 23:59 on December 17, 2024 Anywhere on Earth.

djangoproject.com

PSF Fellow Membership: Welcome 2024 Q3 Fellow Members!

Congratulations to fellow Djangonauts Jay Miller, Kojo Idrissa, and Trey Hunner, who are now Python Fellows.

python.org

Django Software Foundation

DSF Board monthly meeting, December 10, 2024

Meeting minutes for DSF Board monthly meeting, December 10, 2024.

djangoproject.com

My first DSF board meeting

New DSF Board Member Paolo Melchiorre describes his first meeting and a behind-the-scenes peak at how Django is actually run.

paulox.net

Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Velda Kiara from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 20 pull requests merged into Django by 15 different contributors - including 3 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Oleg Sverdlov, Ülgen Sarıkavak, and Joel Burns for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

The following security issues have been addressed:

Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags()
Potential SQL injection in HasKey(lhs, rhs) on Oracle

The affected versions are: Django main, Django 5.1, Django 5.0 and Django 4.2. You are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.

Other updates include: added id to ErrorList class and template for 5.2, and restored refreshing of relations when fields deferred in 5.1.4.

Django Newsletter

Wagtail CMS

Gauging Community Interest: Wagtail Space 2025

The Wagtail Space organization teams are considering having a joint (US & Europe) Wagtail Space 2025 in Iceland. Before we commit to this idea, we need to have a better idea of interest. Please let us know if you can attend, and what you are interested in.

google.com

Articles

Using a temporary directory inside a Django test

A quick solution to an issue involving storages and staticfiles during tests.

bmispelon.rocks

Django: launch pdb when a given SQL query runs

From Adam Johnson, another technique for using pdb within Django.

adamj.eu

Building a Chat Backend for Wikipedia Articles in Django

A tutorial on setting up a content-aware chatbot powered by Wikipedia with a Django backend.

lincolnloop.com

The Ultimate Guide to Django Performance: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimization

A very comprehensive guide to boosting performance in your Django app.

loadforge.com

A Comprehensive Guide to Python Project Management and Packaging: Concepts Illustrated with uv – Part I

The goal of this guide is to provide a comprehensive guide to Python project management and packaging, and it certainly does.

reinforcedknowledge.com

Videos

DjangoCon US 2024 Videos

DjangoCon US 2024 Videos are live. Again!

djangotv.com

Podcasts

Django Chat #172: pretix with Raphael Michel

Raphael is the founder of pretix, an open-source ticketing platform. We discuss its early iterations, the technical challenges of ticketing, using Celery and Django REST Framework, DecimalField vs IntegerField for currency, and more.

djangochat.com