What’s new in Django 5.0 ! by Sarah Boyce ¶

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPl5Q5gv9G8
Release notes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/5.0/
Blog article on favourite features of 5.0 by Mariusz Felisiak: https://fly.io/django-beats/new-goodies-in-django-50
Blog article on generated columns for SQLite by Paulo Melchiorre: https://www.paulox.net/2023/11/07/database-generated-columns-part-1-django-and-sqlite/
Blog article on generated columns for PostgreSQL by Paulo Melchiorre: https://www.paulox.net/2023/11/24/database-generated-columns-part-2-django-and-postgresql/
Blog article on using the new form features by David Smith: https://smithdc.uk/blog/2023/bootstrap_form_in_vanilla_django/
DjangoCon conference talk Good Form by David Smith: DjangoCon Europe 2023 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEDMHWDMMUI&ab_channel=DjangoConEurope

Django 5.0 is out! Let’s unwrap the new features of our favourite Python web framework together 🎁 ¶

Have you been counting down the days? Not to Christmas… to the new Django release!

Django 5.0 is out! Let’s unwrap the new features of our favourite Python web framework together 🎁

What you’ll see in this video ¶

Resources ¶

Release notes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/5.0/
Blog article on favourite features of 5.0 by Mariusz Felisiak: https://fly.io/django-beats/new-goodies-in-django-50
Blog article on generated columns for SQLite by Paulo Melchiorre: https://www.paulox.net/2023/11/07/database-generated-columns-part-1-django-and-sqlite/
Blog article on generated columns for PostgreSQL by Paulo Melchiorre: https://www.paulox.net/2023/11/24/database-generated-columns-part-2-django-and-postgresql/
Blog article on using the new form features by David Smith: https://smithdc.uk/blog/2023/bootstrap_form_in_vanilla_django/
DjangoCon conference talk Good Form by David Smith: DjangoCon Europe 2023 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEDMHWDMMUI&ab_channel=DjangoConEurope

GitHub profiles of community members featured - give them a follow if you want to see what they do next ! ¶

Lily Foote: https://github.com/LilyFoote
Paulo Melchiorre: https://github.com/pauloxnet
David Smith: https://github.com/smithdc1
Natalia Bidart: https://github.com/nessita
Mariusz Felisiak: https://github.com/felixxm
Carlton Gibson: https://github.com/carltongibson

I want to thank our Django Fellows and our community for delivering such a fantastic release 👏

There are many unsung heroes but here are the 204 contributors to Django 5.0: https://gist.github.com/felixxm/89e253a67e364c72f8d4ec5a04818a92

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