The Code of Conduct working group received 4 reports and met 12 times in 2025. This transparency report is a brief account of how those reports were handled. This year’s number is lower than previous years in part because of the formation of the Online Community Working Group which handles...

   The Online Community Working Group has introduced a new GitHub repository designed to manage and track ideas, suggestions, and improvements across Django’s various online community platforms. Introducing the Online Community Working Group Repository Primarily inspired by the rollout of the New...

   The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 6.0. The release notes assembles a mosaic of modern tools and thoughtful design. A few highlights are: Template Partials: modularize templates using small, named fragments for cleaner, more maintainable code. (GSoC project by Farhan Ali...

   In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing releases for Django 5.2.9, Django 5.1.15, and Django 4.2.27. These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible. CVE-2025-13372: Potential SQL injection...

   The 2026 DSF Board Election has closed, and the following candidates have been elected: Jacob Kaplan-Moss Priya Pahwa Ryan Cheley They will all serve two years for their term. 2026 Board Directors elected for the 2025 DSF Board - Abigail Gbadago, Jeff Triplett, Paolo Melchiorre, Tom Carrick - are...

   For November 2025, we welcome Akio Ogasahara as our DSF member of the month Akio is a technical writer and systems engineer. He contributed to the Japanese translation for many years. He has been a DSF member since June 2025. You can learn more about Akio by visiting Akio’s X account and his GitHub...

   On November 16th 2005, Django co-creator Adrian Holovaty announced the first ever Django release, Django 0.90. Twenty years later, today here we are shipping the first release candidate of Django 6.0 s . Since we’re celebrating Django’s 20th birthday this year, here are a few release-related...

   Django 6.0 release candidate 1 is now available. It represents the final opportunity for you to try out a mosaic of modern tools and thoughtful design before Django 6.0 is released. The release candidate stage marks the string freeze and the call for translators to submit translations. Provided no...

   For the last decade and more, we’ve been bundling CSS and JavaScript files. These build tools allowed us to utilize new browser capabilities in CSS and JS while still supporting older browsers. They also helped with client-side network performance, minimizing the content to be as small as possible...

   Last week, we had a great time at PyCon FR 2025 - a free ( ) gathering for Pythonistas in France. Here are some of our highlights. Sprints on Django, our website, IA, marketing Over two days, the conference started with 27 contributors joining us to contribute to Django and our website and online...