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Django 1.9 release candidate 1 released

Last month, saw the release of 1.9 RC1 (now official). It’s the first official non-LTS release since

the new release process was formalized

.

Bugfix release issued: 1.8.6

1.8.6 fixes a handful of …

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Bugfix release issued: 1.8.5

A handlful of bugs in the 1.8 release series have been resolved in the latest release.

Django 1.9 beta 1 released

1.9 brings a lot of new features including password validators, parallel tests, a Postgres …

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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 …

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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.

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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 …

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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 …

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Security Advisory: Arbitrary file inclusion through docutils

If you are allowing untrusted users to input reStructuredText which later gets passed through

docutils

, be sure to read this advisory to ensure your application is configured securely.

DjangoCon EU Talk …

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DjangoCon US in Austin, TX

The website for this year's DjangoCon US officially launched (designed by us at

Lincoln Loop

). This year's conference is being run by a newly founded non-profit,

more details on the blog

.

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Django 1.8 beta 1 and 1.7.5 Released

Django 1.8 is one step closer to release and 1.7 has received a few bug fixes.

DjangoCon Europe 2015 Update

DjangoCon EU is just over a month away and tickets are going …