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Django Round-Up #39

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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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Django Round-Up #38

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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

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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

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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

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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 …
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Django Round-Up #34

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Featured 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 Round-Up #33

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Featured 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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Django Round-Up #32

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Featured 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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Django Round-Up #31

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Featured 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 . Security …
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Django Round-Up #30

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Featured 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 …