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Sunsetting Jazzband

After more than a decade maintaining 80+ Python projects, Jazzband is winding down as AI-generated spam and long-standing sustainability challenges make its open, shared-maintenance model no longer viable.

Astral to join OpenAI

Astral, creators of Ruff and uv, are joining OpenAI’s Codex team to push the future of AI-powered Python development while continuing to support their open source tools.

Wagtail CMS News

Updates to Django

Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀

Last week we had 18 pull requests merged into Django by 15 different contributors - including a first-time contributor! Congratulations to dcsid for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

The undocumented get_placeholder method of Field is deprecated in favor of the newly introduced get_placeholder_sql method, which has the same input signature but is expected to return a two-elements tuple composed of an SQL format string and a tuple of associated parameters. This method should now expect to be provided expressions meant to be compiled via the provided compiler argument.(#36727)

Articles

Typing Your Django Project in 2026

Typing Django in 2026 is still a tradeoff between slower, accurate mypy + django-stubs and faster tools that struggle with Django’s dynamic magic, though native typing support may finally be on the horizon.

Python 3.15’s JIT is now back on track

Python 3.15’s once-struggling JIT is finally delivering real speedups, thanks to a scrappy, community-driven effort and a few surprisingly lucky design bets.

Events

Podcasts

Django Chat #198: PyCon US 2026 - Elaine Wong & Jon Banafato

Elaine and Jon are the chair/co-chair respectively of PyCon US, the largest Python conference in North America, happening this May in Long Beach, CA. We discuss what to expect at the conference, new additions from last year, tips on where to stay, and generally how to maximize your PyCon experience.

Django Job Board

Django Forum

Improve free-threading performance - Django Internals

A CPython core developer is proposing small but impactful changes to help Django scale better under free-threaded Python, sparking early collaboration on tackling shared state, caching, and lock contention issues.

Projects

duriantaco/skylos

Yet another static analysis tool for Python codebases written in Python that detects dead code.