Weeknotes 2020 WK 45

Lots of releases, and a self-care sprint.

Django

Monday saw three releases of Django, for the 3.1, 3.0, and 2.2 branches.

The main news was confirming Python 3.9 support across the board. (Bar test suite adjustments, it already worked.)

For 3.1 we’re catching the edge-cases around the admin’s new sidebar, and JSONField. It’s very much small, mid-cycle tidy-ups.

Starting to turn the eye towards the Django 3.2 feature freeze, which is in January. Do you have a feature you want in? Now’s the time to get it moving.

Channels

Channels 3.0.1, released Wednesday, fixed an issue with SessionMiddleware.

There’s one more issue with the background-task runworker, that will require an asgiref release, and a tweak to StaticFilesWrapper, and then it looks like we’re done.

A Self-Care Sprint

Could have been the news this week but, I got to Friday and was pretty tired. I’ve learnt to take that seriously.

So, I finished the week with what Kojo Idrissa calls a self-care sprint. In this case, down-tools, internet off, and not much more than that.

To paraphrase Kojo, the self-care sprint is what makes all the other things possible. This year, of all years, important to remember that.