May's DSF member of the month is Simon Charette! Simon is a longstanding contributor to Django's core, especially in the ORM. He has authored more than 300 commits that made it into Django! 💡 Learn more about Simon here!

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DSF member of the month - Simon Charette

Posted by Sarah Abderemane on May 14, 2025

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Another search productivity tip: configure the Django docs as a search engine! Here’s a demo where the docs are configured with the @-dj keyword - going straight to the querystring template tag reference:

The Django docs search results can now be filtered by category ✨ Nice little productivity boost! Quick little demo with prefetch_related, where the most relevant results are in API Reference and Using Django:

🚨 Django security releases issued: 5.2.1, 5.1.9 and 4.2.21. DoS possibility in strip_tags

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Django security releases issued: 5.2.1, 5.1.9 and 4.2.21

Posted by Natalia Bidart on May 7, 2025

Thank you to Elias Myllymäki for the report!

Announcing an experimental new process for proposing ideas and features to the Django project 🌈

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New Features GitHub repo and project

Posted by Emma Delescolle on April 26, 2025

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