/2026

Announcing asgiref 3.13.0

I happy to announce asgiref version 3.13.0, that's available on PyPI now.

Unblocking async atomic: asgiref next

Today's Stack Report, Towards Async Transactions in Django, relates the story of the async with transaction.atomic() work at Django on the Med 🏖️. It's also about how the feature should behave, and our aim to get it ready for Django …

On Practice

My Tai Chi classes began again (after the summer break) last night.

Back from Django on the Med 🏖️

This week’s theme was very much Back from Django on the Med 🏖️.

Django on the Med 2: Pescara 🏖️

This week is the second edition of Django on the Med 🏖️ in Pescara Italy. Development sprints: three days to get together and work on Django.

Next Stop Pescara!

It’s been a busy first half of the year: Security work on Daphne and asgiref; updates to Neapolitan and django-mantle; talks at PyTV, DjangoCon Europe, and PyCon Italia; the Annual Release Cycle DEP for Django drafted, discussed and made ready; …

Running from Django’s main development branch in production

There’s a feature you’re keen on in Django’s main development branch — as we write, the Database-level delete options for ForeignKey.on_delete from the upcoming Django 6.1, for example.