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Django News - Django 4.2 released - Apr 7th 2023

April 7, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Django 4.2 released The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 4.2. djangoproject.com Welcome our new Django Fellow - Natalia Bidart The DSF Board and Fellows Committee are pleased to introduce Natalia Bidart as our new Django Fellow. Natalia will be joining Mariusz Felisiak who is continuing his long and excellent tenure as a Fellow. djangoproject.com Django bugfix release: 4.1.8 This …

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Filtering rows every 5 days with the Django ORM

April 6, 2023 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

When you’re working with timestamped data, eventually you’ll come across the need to fetch records that occur every X days. This post attempts to explain how to do that from within the Django ORM. If you’re here for code, then this part is for you! from django.db.models import F, Cast, IntegerField from django.db.models.functions import ExtractDay, Mod from django.utils import timezone from yourproject.models import MyModel # If you want to fetch data starting with a day other # than today…

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Freedom to assert

April 5, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]

Just a quickie… In British politics there’s an idea of collective responsibility: once a policy is agreed in cabinet, members of the government are required to defend it even if they don’t agree with it personally[^1]. In Django we have similar. We try to reach decisions via consensus. Once that’s done, there’s a convention that you’ll support that, even if it didn’t quite go your way. That applies all the more to the Fellows. It is quite literally their job to defend the consensus reached on…

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Django bugfix release: 4.1.8

April 5, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Today we've issued the 4.1.8 bugfix release. The release package and checksums are available from our downloads page, as well as from the Python Package Index. The PGP key ID used for this release is Mariusz Felisiak: 2EF56372BA48CD1B.

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Using Unpoly with Django

April 4, 2023 » /var/ - django » [Archived Version]

A guide on using Unpoly with Django

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Django 4.2 released

April 3, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 4.2. This version has been designated as a long-term support (LTS) release, which means that security and data loss fixes will be applied for at least the next three years. It will also receive fixes for crashing bugs, major functionality bugs in newly-introduced features, and regressions from older versions of Django for the next eight months until December 2023. The release notes cover the farrago of new features in detail, but a few …

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And I’m done!

April 2, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]

The week that was 2023 WK13. So, that’s it. I’m retired 🥳 — this week was my last as a Django Fellow. It’s been a great ride, and a massive honour. But now it’s time for other things. Everyone was very kind this week. Mariusz made me a cake. Others sent kind words. It was nice to wrap up in time for Django 4.2 next week. I’m looking forward to two things mainly: fewer notifications, and being able to focus on a specific task for extended periods. Updates I posted A Chat About the Future of…

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Building an Intelligent Education Platform with OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Django

March 31, 2023 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]

This tutorial shows how to build an intelligent educational platform using OpenAI APIs and Django.

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Welcome our new Fellow - Natalia Bidart

March 31, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

The DSF Board and Fellows Committee are pleased to introduce Natalia Bidart as our new Django Fellow. Natalia will be joining Mariusz Felisiak who is continuing his long and excellent tenure as a Fellow. Natalia is a Python expert with almost 15 years of experience working with Django. She graduated from the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, with a degree in Computer Science in 2007, and began her professional career in 2005 working for a Python startup before joining Canonical in 200…

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Django News - Django Behind The Scenes - Mar 31st 2023

March 31, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]

Django Software Foundation DSF Board monthly meeting, March 9, 2023 The DSF Board meets monthly and posts its minutes publicly. Worth a quick look to see what's going on in the Django world. djangoproject.com Sponsored Link Looking for a fun new project? Try Wagtail CMS See why Django developers think Wagtail is a “joy to extend.” Trusted by Google, NASA, and many, many others. The #1 Django-powered CMS. Give it a go. …

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