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Weeknotes 2020 WK 48
Having mentioned Button publicly, I’m now committed to actually putting it out there.
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Weeknotes 2020 WK 47
I’ve started turning my mind towards the Django 3.2 release — feature freeze is in January — which is soon enough now.
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Weeknotes 2020 WK 46
Point releases for both Channels and Daphne this week.
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Weeknotes 2020 WK 45
Lots of releases, and a self-care sprint.
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Weeknotes 2020 WK 44
2020 continues. Still not over it seems.
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Weeknotes 2020 WK 43
One of my hopes for this quarter was to get some time to work on Channels, the ASGI framework that, primarily, adds WebSocket to Django. (There’s much more to Channels than just WebSockets, and it’ll slot into any ASGI stack, …
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Weeknotes 2020 WK 42
We confirmed compatibility with Python 3.9, for all supported versions this week. Mariusz has been slowly rolling it out across the test matrix and, bar small tweaks to the test suite, it already works.
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Weeknotes 2020 WK 41
A while back, Python core contributor Paul Ganssle opened a proof-of-concept PR on Django to deprecate use of pytz and move to use of the new zoneinfo module, that was introduced in Python 3.9, with a backport available all the …
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Weeknotes 2020 WK 40
Django currently supports Python 3.6+, on Linux, Windows and macOS. So checking e.g. the Summer of Code project to adjust the parallel test runner to support OSes which use the fork method for subprocesses (specifically Windows and macOS from Python …
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Weeknotes 2020 WK 39
Bumped Django-Filter to 2.4.0.