🐎 Django-related deals for Black Friday 🐎
Divert from the typical shopping frenzy to check out these deals from Django-related creators to help you learn and use the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/11/20/django-black-friday-deals-2025/
Twenty years of #Django releases 🚀 https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/nov/19/twenty-years-of-django-releases/ Over those twenty years,
- 447 Django releases shipped 🚢
- 131 security vulnerabilities addressed
- 262,203 releases of Django-related packages in the #Python ecosystem
November's DSF member of the month is Akio Ogasahara, aka libratech!
Akio is a technical writer, systems engineer, and long-time contributor to Django's Japanese translations. Learn more about Akio's unique background and path to #django here!
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/nov/21/dsf-member-of-the-month-akio-ogasahara/
🚀 Feature Friday: Unique constraints with null values!
Have you ever had a Model field that you wanted to be optional, but unique if it was present?
Django 5.0's new nulls_distinct attribute now allows you to do this!
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🎉 Feature Friday: Django's Database-Generated Fields!
Need DB-generated values in your Django models? Meet the new GeneratedField!
Define fields with values created by the database, not Django. Powerful for computed columns & more.
DB-generated fields can be used for the following use cases:
• Computed columns
• Default values from DB functions
• Auto-updating timestamps
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Here's a small sample code showing the usage of GeneratedField:
OK, @CodenameTim had a super idea: We’re going to do a package maintainers open space @djangocon. If you’re a maintainer in the @django ecosystem (or you want to be) and you’ll be there, look out for that. We can share our woes, and joys of course, and plans, and hopes. 🤗 #Django #djangocon #DjangoconUS
The ponies have arrived!!! 🦄 🔥
Check out our snazzy sticker packs for #DjangoConUS!
You can grab one in person after my ⚡️ quick ⚡️ lightning talk!
If you can't make it (like @adamghill!) visit https://djangostickers.com for more info and be sure to sign up for our mailing list! 💌
See you all at @djangocon! 👋
The entire software department at work was fired yesterday. I had already quit and today is my last day. While I already have a new position starting next week, the rest of the department is looking. There are QA, frontend ( #angular ), and backend ( #python #Django) engineers, technical writer and software compliance specialists, UI/UX designers, SREs, our manager. If you're #hiring #remote in #Germany or on-site, I'd love to forward contact details. #getfedihired
Really happy to see the results of the 2026 DSF Board election 🎉
Big congrats to Priya Pahwa (@priyapahwa), Ryan Cheley (@ryancheley) and Jacob Kaplan-Moss (@jacob) for being elected 👏
A warm thank you to Sarah Abderemane (@sabderemane) and Thibaud Colas (@thibaudcolas) for their two years of service 🙏
Thanks to all candidates for stepping up and to the DSF members who voted with strong participation 🤗
Results 👇
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/nov/28/2026-dsf-board-election-results/
CC @django
Happening in Senigallia on December 3rd, come wish the Django community a happy birthday at [PythonMarche0xB] PyBeer 🐍🍺
🚀 Feature Friday: QuerySet.prefetch_related() supports GenericForeignKey for Django 5.0 and above!
This seemingly minor change might be a big win for performance in your django projects. Let’s see how 👇
#Django #DjangoFeatureFriday
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On stage at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit: mentor @laymonage showcases the work of Shafiya Adzhani. Shafiya’s project directly followed from Sage’s cross-DB JSONField work back in 2019 🎉
This year’s #gsoc marks 19 years of #Django participating in the program ❤️
For users of django-polymorphic - I have just published a roadmap summarizing my intentions for moving forward.
Thank you for your patience!
https://github.com/jazzband/django-polymorphic/discussions/733
DjangoCon Europe 2025 in Dublin 🇮🇪
Looking back at DjangoCon Europe 2025, a few months later, this was a really good way to start the in-person conference season ✨
I was there as a speaker and a DSF board member: a talk on mentoring in Djangonaut Space, a short PyCon Italia mention during the lightning talks, and many good hallway conversations 🎉
Full recap here 👇
https://www.paulox.net/2025/05/13/my-djangocon-europe-2025/
Today during @webology 's office hours I was inspired by an idea from @alexgmin and made this: https://pypi.org/project/django_wplogin/
It's an enhancement for #Django 's admin login page, inspired by best practices found in other frameworks. If you try it let me know what you think 🙃
In case you missed it yesterday, my co-maintainer/co-conspirator @alexgmin and I released https://pypi.org/project/django_wplogin/, a Django plugin to enhance the admin login page, inspired by wordpress.
Django 6.0 released ✨ a mosaic of modern tools and thoughtful design 🎨🧩🛠️💡#Django -- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/dec/03/django-60-released/
Django 6.0 is out 🎉 and includes some exciting new features like CSP, Tasks, or Template Partials 🤩 Many thanks to all 174 people who made this possible 💚 #django #openSource #python
https://gist.github.com/felixxm/99501cdbf6ed5a69295b4cb3f8c21d80
🚀 Feature Friday: Django's update_or_create() got Smarter in v5.0!
The new create_defaults argument lets you handle creation vs update scenarios elegantly, bringing more power to Django's object management.
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🚀 Feature Friday: Template partials!
New in Django 6.0, this extension to Django's template language makes it easy to reuse fragments in templates: Great for cutting down the overhead of creating files for small pieces of isolated logic!
Expression of interest for the 6.X Steering Council: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4kDHSRr-ayuXensVogJLwx14jeRClAmHXfFhmw04vAUYnPQ/viewform
Anyone can use this form to either:
- Give the DSF your email so they reach out to you once the elections are happening.
- Share your details so the DSF can check your eligibility as a candidate and let you know, ahead of the actual elections
- Do an early registration as a candidate (the DSF will reach out to confirm closer to the elections)
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🚀 Feature Friday: Django 5.0 introduced more options for declaring field choices!
Now you can use Mapping, a callable, and strings for single-character choices, in addition to the traditional tuples and enumeration.
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We're already a week out from #DjangoCon US 2024. How did that happen?! If you're missing seeing all your Django friends faces, here are two of them.
In this @kjaymiller production of DjangoCon US Perspectives, Jay speaks with Aman Singh! #Django
✨ 0.9.0 of dj-angles, a library to incorporate more HTML into #Django templates, is now published. ✨
The main feature is (beta) support for slots in components! 🎰🚀
Slots documentation: https://dj-angles.adamghill.com/en/latest/components.html#slots
📖 https://dj-angles.adamghill.com
📦 https://pypi.org/project/dj-angles
🛠️ https://github.com/adamghill/dj-angles
I created my first Django Trac ticket. Milestone?
It has not gone through triage yet, but at least it describes an accessibility issue that uses only dashes as an option value.
"Allow customization of the blank option in select dropdowns."
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/35870
(See my blog post for yesterday for more notes about dashes and hyphens)
