DjangoCon US CFP extended, link checking in Buttondown, Velda on Django Chat, and more.

Django News

Django newsletter covering the week of March 13, 2026. Highlights include 21 PRs merged into Django core by 11 contributors (including 2 first-timers), Django security releases (6.0.3, 5.2.12, 4.2.29), and a note from Django Fellow Natalia about the growing noise from LLM-generated pull requests. Also covered: DjangoCon US 2026 CFP extended to March 23, Python 3.15.0 alpha 7 with lazy imports and frozendict, a proposal for AddConstraintConcurrently in contrib.postgres, tips on avoiding empty strings in non-nullable model fields, and a practical comparison of Meilisearch vs Elasticsearch showing cost reduction from $120 to $14/month.

21 PRs in One Week to Django Core!