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Django 1.9 alpha 1 released
The next version of Django hit feature-freeze with lots of cool new features: password validators, parallel testing, a true Postgres JSON field, and more.
New options for donating to the DSF
To keep up …
Element queries provide styling opportunities specific to an element’s dimensions. You could consider them the holy grail of responsive web design, allowing authors to determine an element’s look and feel regardless on where it’s placed. If given ample space you …
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Django team seeks help maintaining Oracle and Oracle GIS backends
Are you using Oracle with Django? The database backend is currently without a maintainer and runs the risk of being deprecated unless somebody steps up to provide support.
Security …
Last month I had some time to take a closer look at how our website was performing from a pure speed perspective. It’s a pretty simple site, a bit less than 400kb total and very different from that of most …
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Security releases issued: 1.8.3, 1.7.9, 1.4.21
A possible denial of service attack related to Django’s session framework was patched. If you’re using a third-party session framework, be sure it’s been updated as well.
Django Has a New Admin Theme …
With the version 1.0 release of react-router, the named Route feature was dropped. In earlier versions, you were able to define each Route with a name parameter:
<Route path="/account/billing" name="account-billing" />
and link to the RouteHandler via:
<Link to="account-billing">Billing</Link>
This …
uWSGI is one of those interesting projects that keeps adding features with every new release without becoming totally bloated, slow, and/or unstable. In this post, we’ll look at some of its lesser used features and how you might use them …
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Django’s Roadmap
Based on the results of the community survey, a long-term release roadmap has been put in place. Extra effort was made to ease the upgrade burden on developers and third-party applications.
Django Software Foundation announces Diversity Statement …
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Django Developers Community Survey
The Django Core Team wants to know more about how
you
use Django. Take a few minutes to fill out the survey and help them tailor Django so it meets our needs.
Bugfix and Security …
I’ve been working on improving our deployment processes as part of the High Performance Django Infrastructure project we’re building out. One consistent pain point is our front-end build system, and particularly, npm installs. For a number of reasons, instead of …
