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🚀 Django 6.0 is out! This is a super exciting new release, introducing the tasks framework, template partials, Content Security Policy support, improved email handling, and lots more! Here are my annotated and expanded highlights from the release notes:

Django: what’s new in 6.0 - Adam Johnson

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🐎 Django-related deals for Black Friday 🐎 Divert from the typical shopping frenzy to check out these deals from Django-related creators to help you learn and use the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

Django-related Deals for Black Friday 2025 - Adam Johnson

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🚀 Yesterday, I released version 1.2.0 of my new package, django-http-compression. It includes a big change to only apply compression to known-compressible content types, like HTML or JSON, copying the behaviour of servers like Caddy or CloudFlare. This change saves CPU cycles by not trying to compress binary formats that are typically already compressed, like images or zipfiles.

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django-http-compression/CHANGELOG.rst at main · adamchainz/django-http-compression

Django middleware for compressing HTTP responses with Zstandard, Brotli, or Gzip. - adamchainz/django-http-compression

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Give this a go to help guide the future of the web!

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FirefoxDevTools (@FirefoxDevTools@mastodon.social)

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most. So, here's a web app where...

Haha, it turns out the LLM test SWE-Bench uses Django, and agents have been caught solving a bug fix by using git log to copy what @npub1qav9...xu3f did! 😂

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Repo State Loopholes During Agentic Evaluation · Issue #465 · SWE-bench/SWE-bench

We've identified multiple loopholes with SWE Bench Verified where agents may look at future repository state (by querying it directly or through a ...

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I haven’t seen Sinners, but this cover in the OST truly slaps... and on theme for #DjangoConEurope !

I'm excited to visit this specific Lidl while I'm at #DjangoConEurope

Ireland Before You Die

1000-year-old VIKING HOUSE preserved under IRISH SUPERMARKET

This Dublin Lidl is unlike any other you've ever seen. Here you will find a 1000-year-old Viking house preserved under the Irish supermarket.

#Python mini tip: The easiest way to create a signature-preserving function decorator is with `contextlib.contextmanager`. Use it on a generator function with one `yield` statement, and it will create a combined context manager and function decorator.

#GitHub tip: Don’t post “Any updates?” style comments on open source threads. Any updates would be there already. Open source is a gift; bugging maintainers acts like you're entitled to results. I just mark such comments as spam. If you want to see something done, do something to help: research specifications, find an existing implementation, write a test case, draft the docs, write a draft implementation, do some code review, test the PR locally, or just anything to help the project.

Django + htmx tip: Use hx-headers to pass Django’s CSRF token with all requests. This allows htmx to make data-modifying requests with methods like POST or PUT. More details:

Tips - django-htmx 1.27.0 documentation

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