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Let's Encrypt DNS Challenge

Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority. It is a huge improvement over the manual complex process of acquiring and deploying an HTTPS server. The process is now: Free Automatic (no more login to sites, filling forms, concatenating certificates) This …
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Django Round-Up #39

Featured 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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Faster Django Sites with PyPy

This post was created as a collaboration between Lincoln Loop and Maciej Fijalkowski from baroquesoftware.com. In the space of web architecture, the prevalent belief states that “database based applications are I/O bound”. While this might have been true in the …
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Django Round-Up #38

Featured 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 Round-Up #37

Featured 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 Round-Up #36

Featured 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 …
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Django Round-Up #35

Featured 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 …