The 2026 Python Language Summit was hosted in Kraków, Poland as part of EuroPython 2026. There were 15 talks covering free-threading, Rust, garbage collection, type annotations, and more.

Posted by Abigail Afi Gbadago and Jeff Triplett on Oct. 1, 2026

Build any Django app — from a SaaS to a dashboard to an API — from a single sentence. An agent skill that wires packages, splits dev/prod settings, and adds CI. - viewflow/seedkit

Database-backed worker backend for Django's Tasks framework.

Expose Django admin models to MCP (Model Context Protocol) clients. Add a mixin to your ModelAdmin classes and let AI assistants like Claude perform CRUD operations, execute admin actions, and expl...

Hello Django users, Last year I posted here about the first MariaDB Foundation survey, and a good number of Django users took part - thank you! This year’s MariaDB Database Survey 2026 is open and ready for your input: MariaDB's Database Survey 2026 We revamped last year’s questions to gain new insights and split some questions by role so you can choose what to answer. It’s also open to users of other databases this year - if your Django runs on Postgres, SQLite or MySQL, we’d like to learn an...

Suggestions and techniques you can use to keep your sanity in a sea of issues and PRs

Highlights from DjangoCon US 2026 in Chicago, celebrating a week of learning, connection, community, and the people who make Django special.

A new experimental MCP server and admin agent UI for your website’s content operations

Posted by Jeff Triplett and the DSF Board on Sept. 18, 2026

Posted by Tim Schilling and the Steering Council on Sept. 22, 2026

Posted by Sarah Abderemane on Sept. 24, 2026

Database-backed worker backend for Django's Tasks framework.

DEP 19 is approved, the DSF rethinks who counts toward quorum, and maintainers face the LLM slop tsunami.

The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

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Easy peasy MCP servers in Django. Contribute to adamchainz/django-mcpz development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Djangonauts from in and around Denmark are meeting up for the 6th edition of Django Day Copenhagen 2026, October 2

Week ending 2026-09-13 (Week 37) An early report for about a day at my desk before heading out for some vacation ⛰ . Reviewed Fixed #37313 -- Confirmed support for GEOS 3.15. by saikat709 · Pull Request #21897 · django/django · GitHub adding de-ch to LANG_INFO by retfah · Pull Request #21100 · django/django · GitHub Fixed #37331 -- Dropped support for GEOS 3.10. by saikat709 · Pull Request #21929 · django/django · GitHub Fixed #36933 -- Changed round yes-icons into re...

Week ending 2026-09-13 (Week 37) This week was quite admin heavy but all positive things! Triaged #37306 (Add --tracing and --video options to the Playwright test runner) – Django (accepted) #37337 (MigrationAutodetector defers ForeignKey components of CompositePrimaryKey to AddField, causing FieldDoesNotExist on CreateModel) – Django (worksforme) #37330 (Transform on an annotation alias crashes when output_field is not attached to a model) – Django (accepted) #37341 (Update "vast range" phras...

Week ending 2026-09-13 (Week 37) A quieter week, with a mix of security work, reviews, and follow-ups from ongoing work. I spent a good chunk of time on a security report that needed a second triage, including a detailed review of the proposed patch 🔎. I also wrapped up more of the follow-through from DEP 20 by adapting the release checklists to the new release calendar, and resumed a PR to make `EmailValidator` more flexible. And, in particularly happy news ...

Posted by DjangoCon Europe 2027 Organizing Team on Sept. 15, 2026

Django Development Sprints. Three days to get together and work on Django.

Week ending 2026-09-06 (Week 36) Reviewed Improve search performance by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #2748 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub Fixed #37263 -- Fixed changelist __exact search crashes and over-matching. by adamchainz · Pull Request #21754 · django/django · GitHub Fixed `stable/` docs symlink. by tobiasmcnulty · Pull Request #2806 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub Updates team page to link django core developers by afs2015 · Pull Request #2808 · django/djangoproject.com · GitH...

Week ending 2026-09-13 (Week 37) An early report for about a day at my desk before heading out for some vacation ⛰ . Reviewed Fixed #37313 -- Confirmed support for GEOS 3.15. by saikat709 · Pull Request #21897 · django/django · GitHub adding de-ch to LANG_INFO by retfah · Pull Request #21100 · django/django · GitHub Fixed #37331 -- Dropped support for GEOS 3.10. by saikat709 · Pull Request #21929 · django/django · GitHub Fixed #36933 -- Changed round yes-icons into re...

Developer experience for humans and AI: a prototype Wagtail CLI for CMS ops and docs in the terminal

Posted by Priya Pahwa on Sept. 8, 2026

For two weeks in August 2026, some PyPI users hit intermittent 502 and 503 errors downloading files. Here's what was happening, and what we changed.

We are so back! I couldn’t attend DjangoCon last year in-person and I wasn’t even able to attend virtually due to work. Thankfully I was able to make it this year and I had a wonderful time! I even got to take some great photos! Till next year! 🚀 Day 1 Boldly Go, Building Worlds: Is there Room for me on the Bridge? GeoDjango at City Scale: Spatial Data for Urban Systems Pragmatic AI: How to gain trust with user-centered AI adoption Lighting Talks Search-as-you-type for 54 Million Names: PostgreSQL + Django for Fuzzy Name Matching at Scale Agents All the Way Down: How AI Coding Agents Changed How I Write Django Day 2 Keynote: Emails from my Grandad Batteries vs. Speed: The Django/FastAPI Debate The Testing Pyramid in Practice for Django Who Goes There? Actively Detecting Intruders With Cyber Deception Tools Open Spaces Day 3 Keynote

Revisiting Crunchy posts on COPY, TOAST, BRIN, covering indexes, and partitioning: what we said then, which Postgres versions changed the story, and what we recommend on Postgres 19.

How AI coding agents changed how I write Django.

During this campaign, buy PyCharm Pro with a 30% discount code and all money raised will go to the DSF’s general fundraising and Django Fellowship program

Part of the Nifty Django features series: You can hack Django’s Index class to define custom migration operations on your model.

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil” — our field’s favorite half-sentence, quoted far more often than the sentence it was cut from. Usually it serves as permission: build …

Posted by Sarah Abderemane on Aug. 31, 2026

Last chance to test before the big day!