Django News

News

Django bugfix releases issued: 5.2.10, 6.0.1

Django released bugfix updates 5.2.10 and 6.0.1; release packages and signed checksums are available on the downloads page and PyPI.

DjangoCon US 2026 Call for Proposals

The CFP is now open until March 16, 2026. The conference this year will be September 14-18, again in Chicago.

Wagtail CMS News

Wagtail Wrapped 2025

Wagtail's 2025 recap highlights four releases culminating in 7.2 with a 7.0 LTS, deferred validation toward autosave, search revamp, and AI package improvements.

Updates to Django

Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀

Last week we had 6 pull requests merged into Django by 5 different contributors - including a first-time contributor! Congratulations to Mykhailo Havelia for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

Fixed a bug in Django 5.2 where data exceeding max_length was silently truncated by QuerySet.bulk_create() on PostgreSQL (#33647).
Fixed a regression in Django 6.0 where the Widget.use_fieldset attribute of ClearableFileInput was flipped from False to True (#36829).

Articles

Migrating From Celery to Django Tasks

Django’s new Task Framework makes it surprisingly easy to replace Celery, covering configuration, task migration, queues, workers, and periodic jobs with simpler, built-in tooling.

My 2025 year in review - Andrew Miller

Andy's recap of regular blogging, conference attending, working on a financial services startup, using AI, publishing django-prodserver, and more in 2025.

Ceci n'est pas un blog

Russell Keith-Magee shares that receiving Django commit access 20 years ago set a trajectory that led to remote roles, startups, BeeWare, and continued open-source impact.

Open Source Is People: A Python & Django Year

Anthony Addae describes a 2025 journey from mentoring to becoming an active Django contributor and organizer, including participation in Djangonaut Space and a first Django core pull request.

Django Quiz 2025

Adam Johnson shares the 2025 edition of his annual Django pop quiz from Django London, inviting readers to test their Django knowledge with a mix of fun, community-focused, and framework-wide questions.

What async really means for your python web app? - hackeryarn

Async Python web benchmarks show that for most Django apps hitting a database, well-tuned synchronous setups with connection pooling outperform async frameworks, making async far from the free performance win many expect.

Events

Things I'd Like to See in a DjangoCon US 2026 Talk

Curated talk ideas for DjangoCon US 2026 CFP covering deployment, Django 6.x features, performance, security, HTMX, type checking, ML, and community topics.

Django Job Board

Explore senior Python and Django roles spanning enterprise, open web infrastructure, and a fully remote UK-based startup.

Senior Python Developer at Cial Dun & Bradstreet

Software Engineer at Internet Archive

Founding Full-Stack Senior Engineer (UK ONLY) - Fully Remote at MyDataValue

Django Bugfixes, Community Wins, and What’s NextIssue 319 January 9th 2026