Django News

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Calling for research participants from Django, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Next.js and Spring Boot communities

Former DSF President and researcher Anna Makarudze is seeking Django developers to share insights on dependency vulnerabilities and supply chain risks in open source.

Djangonaut Space News

Djangonaut Space Financial Report 2025

Djangonaut Space’s 2025 report highlights a community-powered year of $2.2k in donations funding tools and conference access, while setting sights on sending contributors to even more events in 2026.

Djangonaut diaries, week 3 - Working on an ORM issue

A deep dive into Django’s ManyToMany indexes reveals an unnecessary extra index, showing how databases already optimize with composite indexes and setting the stage for a cleaner ORM fix.

Wagtail CMS News

Wagtail Routable Pages and Layout Configuration

Build flexible Wagtail routable pages that use StreamField layouts to dynamically control how Django model data renders on detail views.

Updates to Django

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

Last week we had 18 pull requests merged into Django by 15 different contributors - including 4 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Juho Hautala, Huwaiza, (James) Kanin Kearpimy 🚀 and Praful Gulani for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

News in Django 6.1:

Providing fail_silently=True, auth_user, or auth_password to mail sending functions (such as send_mail()) while also providing a connection now raises a TypeError.
assertContains() and assertNotContains() can now be called multiple times on the same StreamingHttpResponse. Previously, they would consume the streaming response’s content, causing subsequent calls to fail.
Because quoted aliases are case-sensitive, raw SQL references to aliases mixing case, such as when using RawSQL, might have to be adjusted to also make use of quoting.

Django Fellow Reports

Fellow Report - Natalia

A significant portion of this week was dedicated to security work (yes, again). As usual, details here are intentionally kept at a high level, but the time went into triaging new reports, progressing in-flight likely confirmed issues, validating proposed fixes, and coordinating next steps with the team.

One additional challenge worth noting is the volume of near-duplicate reports; beyond triage, this often requires careful comparison across long submissions to identify what is actually new or meaningfully different.

Fellow Report - Jacob

Easy to miss in the release notes (as we only described the user-facing changes for edge cases), but last week we landed (with great joy) @charettes’ defense-in-depth measure for the ORM that ensures user-provided aliases are always quoted.

In addition to the below, another steady week advancing pending security reports.

Articles

Learning LLM Integration

A practical, from-scratch look at integrating LLMs into a Django app, highlighting why isolating the AI layer and writing precise prompts makes all the difference.

Give Django your time and money, not your tokens

The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.

Open Source Has a Bot Problem

The maintainer of awesome-mcp-servers came up with a solution, of sorts, to curating AI-generated PRs.

Why pylock.toml includes digital attestations

A Python project got hacked where malicious releases were directly uploaded to PyPI. I said on Mastodon that had the project used trusted publishing with digital attestations, then people using a pylock.toml file would have noticed something odd was going on thanks to the lock file including attestation data.

Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library

A thoughtful deep dive into rewriting a 20-year-old Python library, covering async design, API ergonomics, and how to modernize without breaking users.

Playground embedding, packages and more

The nanodjango playground has several new exciting features which transform what you can achieve with it - you can now manage packages and secrets, share scripts from the command line, and embed live Django code in your own site.

Human.json

A quick look at human.json, a lightweight protocol for sharing human-readable metadata, with a simple Django implementation and a healthy dose of skepticism about its long-term adoption.

Videos

PyCon US 2026 - Elaine Wong & Jon Banafato

A behind-the-scenes look at PyCon US 2026 with chair Elaine Wong and co-chair Jon Banafato, covering what’s new, how to prepare, and tips to make the most of the biggest Python conference in North America.

Django Job Board

Solutions Architect - Python (Client-facing) at JetBrains

Django Forum

Discouraging "the voice from nowhere" (~LLMs) in documentation

Forum discussion on maintaining a human (not LLM) voice in Django's documentation.

Balancing the AI Flood in Django March 27th 2026