Django News - 201 Created - Last call for DjangoCon US 2023 tickets! - Oct 13th 2023
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Last call for DjangoCon US 2023 tickets!
DjangoCon US kicks off this Monday, October 16th - 18th. Online tickets are still on sale!
If you are attending this year, Jeff, Will, and Catherine will be there. Say hello in person or virtually.
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Updates to Django
Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 10 different contributors - including 4 first time contributors! Congratulations to ume, Pieter Cardillo Kwok, Denis Rouzaud and Faishal manzar for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
Features for Django 5.1 are already being accepted!
5.1 will allow template tags to set extra data for templates (#34883 and release note) and
assertContains(), assertNotContains(), and assertInHTML() assertions will now add haystacks to assertion error messages (#34657 and release note).
Next week is DjangoCon US! There are a number of ways you can engage in the conference virtually including get involved in the sprints! You can read about this on the Django forum and sign up.
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