Django News - Django 6.0 Feature Freeze - Sep 19th 2025 https://django-news.com/issues/303

[Forum] Django needs a REST story Django aims to incorporate native REST API support by evaluating direct integration, DRF absorption, and enhanced documentation to address modern API demands. #djangonews

[Articles] Customizing your Python REPL's color scheme (Python 3.14+) Python 3.14 introduces syntax highlighting that developers can customize via PYTHONSTARTUP with the experimental _colorize module, ideal for matching editor themes. #djangonews

[Articles] Ready prek go! Prek, a Rust-based alternative to pre-commit leveraging uv for Python environment management, achieves notable performance improvements and reduced disk usage for hook installations. #djangonews

[Articles] Fat Posts in Django Leveraging Django proxy models and custom ModelForms enables dedicated admin views for specific post types, facilitating flexible content management and refactoring. #djangonews

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[News] DjangoCon US: Call for Venue Proposals 2027-28 So you want your city to host DjangoCon US? Hurrah! We’re delighted by your interest. Here’s what you need to know, and what we need to know, to consider your proposal. #djangonews

[News] Getting Started With Open Source Through Community Events Django community events empower developers to gain practical open source contribution experience via office hours, sprints, testathons, and live PR review sessions boosting personal growth. #djangonews

Django News - Djangonaut Space 2025 Session 5 - Sep 12th 2025 https://django-news.com/issues/302

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[News] DjangoCon US 2025 Hackathon form DjangoCon US 2025 is hosting a hackathon for all online and in-person attendees! #djangonews docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1...

Django News - Last call for DjangoCon US 2025 tickets! - Sep 5th 2025 https://django-news.com/issues/301

[Articles] uv format: Code Formatting Comes to uv (experimentally!) uv 0.8.13 now integrates an experimental code formatting command using Ruff to simplify Python code styling, offering customizable options and streamlined workflows. #djangonews pydevtools.com/blog/uv-for...

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[Articles] Brainstorming django-uv Brainstorming a django-uv command wrapper integrating uv with django-admin to simplify project bootstrapping and dynamically configure DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE from pyproject.toml for seamless execution. #djangonews paultraylor.net/blog/2025/b...

[Projects] adamghill/dj-toml-settings Load Django settings from a TOML file. #djangonews github.com/adamghill/d...

[Django Fellow Report] Django Fellow Report - Natalia Bidart 6 tickets triaged, 9 tickets reviewed, 1 authored, more Jenkins fixing, and security related work. #djangonews forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-fe...

[Wagtail CMS] Media listings UX improvements via Google Summer of Code 2025 Enhancing the user experience of Wagtail’s media listings over the summer #djangonews wagtail.org/blog/media-...

[Projects] efe/yesglot LLM-powered Django translations ✨. #djangonews github.com/efe/yesglot

[Articles] How I write Django views Using Django's base View class balances explicit function-based logic with organized method separation, avoiding the hidden complexity of generic class-based views. #djangonews www.loopwerk.io/articles/20...

[Wagtail CMS] 5 terabytes for 30 seconds of homepage video Why you shouldn't add a video at the top of your homepage #djangonews wagtail.org/blog/5-tera...

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[Articles] User Timezones in Django Django enables efficient timezone management using zoneinfo, UTC storage, dynamic user timezone models, and custom datetime fields for proper local time conversions. #djangonews www.djangotricks.com/blog/2025/0...

[Articles] A career comes to a close A comprehensive career retrospective highlighting decades of computing evolution, detailing work in diverse languages, systems, and networking protocols as Ken Whitesell transitions to retirement. #djangonews kenwhitesell.github.io/2025/08/27/...

[Django Fellow Report] Django Fellow Report - Sarah Boyce 3 tickets triaged, 19 tickets reviewed, engaged in security topics, and in depth review of tasks PR, including documentation re-writes. #djangonews forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-fe...

[News] Django on the Med: Updates. Sponsors. Are you coming? A quick update on Django on the Med 🏖️ — your favourite Django sprint. 🥳 #djangonews buttondown.com/django-on-t...

[Events] EuroPython 2025: A roundup of writeups EuroPython 2025 round-up gathers diverse event write-ups and community insights with practical quotes and resources valuable for Python developers. #djangonews hugovk.dev/blog/2025/e...

[Events] DjangoCon Africa 2025 DjangoCon Africa 2025 offers vibrant networking, an influential keynote, and inspiring opportunities to contribute to Django open source projects and global community. #djangonews sarahabd.com/blog/django...

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[News] DjangoCon US 2025 Hackathon form DjangoCon US 2025 is hosting a hackathon for all online and in-person attendees! #djangonews docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1...

pypistats.org is now operated by the Python Software Foundation PSF now operates pypistats.org, transferring maintenance of its infrastructure and ensuring reliable community access to Python package statistics and performance data. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/08/pyp...

🎉 The Django News Newsletter Issue 300: Python Documentary uv format, brainstorming Django's DX, EuroPython 2025 roundup, and more. django-news.com/issues/300#...

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Django News - Python Documentary - Aug 29th 2025 https://django-news.com/issues/300

[Articles] DjangoCon Africa x UbuCon 2025 Reflections: Stay For The Community DjangoCon Africa x UbuCon 2025 underlines robust community collaboration, open-source initiative growth and challenges in sustaining African Django development through engaging sprints and talks.

[Articles] Python Namespace Packages are a pain Ensuring init.py is present in every directory prevents ambiguous namespace packages, streamlines module imports, and mitigates cryptic errors in Python packaging. #djangonews joshcannon.me/2025/08/16/...

[Articles] Sometimes LFU > LRU Stop letting bot traffic evict your customers' sessions. A simple Redis configuration switch from LRU to LFU solved our crawler problem, with a Django configuration example. #djangonews www.revsys.com/tidbits/som...

[Articles] Customize your IPython shell in Docker Customize your IPython shell in Docker with tailored profiles and startup scripts that streamline Django shell_plus debugging, imports, and UUID extraction workflows. #djangonews frankwiles.com/posts/custo...

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[Articles] Best Python Books (2025) An up-to-date list of the best books for learning Python. #djangonews wsvincent.com/best-python...

[Projects] edelvalle/djhtmx Interactive UI components for Django using htmx.org. #djangonews github.com/edelvalle/d...

[Projects] joshuadavidthomas/mcp-django-shell MCP server providing a stateful Django shell for AI assistants. #djangonews github.com/joshuadavid...

[Videos] "How a Solo Hobbyist Learned to Love Testing" - Carl James PyOhio talk on slowly integrating testing into Django apps and, by proxy, learning more about the underlying libraries along the way. #djangonews www.youtube.com/watch?si=RQ...

[Video] Talk Python Live Stream: Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday with its Creators A discussion of Django's past, present, and future featuring Adrian Holovaty, Simon Willison, Thibaud Colas, Jeff Triplett, Will Vincent, and Michael Kennedy. www.youtube.com/live/qlYCUI...

[Wagtail CMS] Wagtail Space 2025 is a go! Wagtail Space 2025 is a free three-day Zoom event featuring lightning talks and networking to shape future Wagtail improvements. #djangonews wagtail.org/blog/wagtai...

[Events] Be Part of Something Amazing: Volunteer at DjangoCon US 2025 in Chicago! Join DjangoCon US 2025 as a volunteer in Chicago to gain insider event management experience, expand your network, and strengthen the Django community. #djangonews 2025.djangocon.us/news/volunt...

[Podcasts] Django Brew #6: Celebrating 20 Years of Django A podcast episode celebrates Django's 20th anniversary using trivia, reflections, and community updates to engage developers with historical highlights and events. #djangonews djangobrew.com/episodes/17...

[Events] Friends of PyCon Africa Livestream Join the August 30th livestream celebrating the vibrant Python community across Africa! Guests include Carlton Gibson, Dawn Wages, Michael Kennedy, Sarah Abderemane, and more. #djangonews za.pycon.org/friends-of-...

Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks PyPI now checks for expired domains to prevent domain resurrection attacks, a type of supply-chain attack where someone buys an expired domain and uses it to take an account through password resets. #djangonews blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-...

[News] PyPI now serves project status markers in API responses PyPI now exposes standardized project status markers through its HTML and JSON index APIs, enabling package installers to programmatically signal dependency status and manage installations. blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-...