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This page, updated regularly, aggregates Django Software Foundation from the Django community.
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Djangonaut Space - New session 2025
We are thrilled to announce that Djangonaut Space, a mentorship program, is open for applicants for our next cohort! 🚀 Djangonaut Space is holding a fourth session! This session will start on February 17th, 2025. We are currently accepting applications until January 29th, 2025 Anywhere on Earth. More details can be found in the website. Djangonaut Space is a free, 8-week group mentoring program where individuals will work self-paced in a semi-structured learning environment. It seeks to help members of the community who wish to level up their current Django code contributions and potentially take on leadership roles in Django in the future. “I'm so grateful to have been a part of the Djangonaut Space program. It's a wonderfully warm, diverse, and welcoming space, and the perfect place to get started with Django contributions. The community is full of bright, talented individuals who are making time to help and guide others, which is truly a joy to experience. Before Djangonaut Space, I felt as though I wasn't the kind of person who could become a Django contributor; now I feel like I found a place where I belong.” - Eliana, Djangonaut Session 1 Enthusiastic about contributing to Django but wondering … -
Django earns the CHAOSS DEI Bronze badge 🫶
We’re excited to announce that Django has been awarded the CHAOSS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Bronze Badge! This badge reflects our ongoing commitment to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community for all Djangonauts. It’s part of the CHAOSS DEI Project Badging initiative. Our new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Project Statement details all the ways in which we want to create an environment where everyone can participate and thrive, and complements our pre-existing Django Community Diversity Statement. From inclusive leadership structures to Django events, we strive to ensure our community is welcoming, transparent, and supportive. Thank you to everyone in the Django community who contributes to making our project inclusive, accessible, and welcoming 🫶. Thank you to Sarah Boyce, who led the work for us to be awarded this badge as part of . We view this milestone as part of a continuous journey for our project and community to improve, and look forward to building an even more vibrant and supportive community together. -
Hello from the new Steering Council; and a quick temporary voting process change
Hello Django community! The Steering Council is officially in action and we want to give you a heads up on a change we're making for the short-term. The process for formal Steering Council votes (documented in DEP 10) has not been working. It's our goal for the community to refresh Django's governance during the upcoming release cycle. In order to allow us to move forward now, and under supervision of the DSF Board, we are suspending use of the +1, 0, -1 public voting system in cases where a Steering Council consensus clearly exists. Instead, we will deliberate internally, summarize our opinions, and share that publicly (location and full details TBD). We hope that this allows us to move faster on the smaller things we have in front of us currently. We appreciate all of your patience and look forward to what we all do together! -- The Django Steering Council: Carlton, Emma, Frank, Lilly, and Tim -
Django 5.2 alpha 1 released
Django 5.2 alpha 1 is now available. It represents the first stage in the 5.2 release cycle and is an opportunity for you to try out the changes coming in Django 5.2. Django 5.2 brings a composite of new features which you can read about in the in-development 5.2 release notes. This alpha milestone marks the feature freeze. The current release schedule calls for a beta release in about a month and a release candidate about a month from then. We'll only be able to keep this schedule if we get early and often testing from the community. Updates on the release schedule are available on the Django forum. As with all alpha and beta packages, this is not for production use. But if you'd like to take some of the new features for a spin, or to help find and fix bugs (which should be reported to the issue tracker), you can grab a copy of the alpha package from our downloads page or on PyPI. The PGP key ID used for this release is Sarah Boyce: 3955B19851EA96EF