Weeknotes (2026 week 40)
I have been at Django on the Med 🏖️ and already wrote a lengthy post about that.
I did a lot of work on a DEP for adding import map support to Django which is currently also being discussed on the forum. Apart from that I’m not going to repeat anything from the post linked above, so check it out if you want to know more.
Motivated by a discussion I had at the sprint I also improved my release process. I now have a make-release script in my dotfiles which updates the CHANGELOG with the version, bumps the version itself in the repo and commits and tags the release. The rest is handled by trusted publishing. I’m now finally also properly handling patch releases so that you don’t have to check the history to know what’s in a patch release. I already did that for minor and major version bumps, but was a bit too lazy. Now I can be even lazier and still more correct, and it feels great.
Next, I refactored the static site generator script for this blog to be much faster. I now do not have to wait when saving before refreshing the browser. Much nicer.
Releases from the last three weeks
django-js-asset
django-js-asset 5.0a1 implements the API proposed in the DEP. This is an alpha release because the DEP is still being discussed and I don’t want to break people’s code again and again if, during discussion, it appears that the API should be different.
django-json-schema-editor, django-prose-editor and django-content-editor
The three alpha releases django-json-schema-editor 0.15a1, django-prose-editor 0.28a2 and django-content-editor 9.1a1 depend on django-js-asset 5.0a1 mentioned above and implement the necessary changes for the new import map definition style.
django-authlib
django-authlib 0.20 adds support for specifying the tenant when using Microsoft Entra ID.
feincms3-downloads
feincms3-downloads 0.6 includes translation fixes, uses different error codes when pdftocairo or convert are missing, and changed the PATH environment variable handling to be less annoying for local development.