August 2024 django CMS Fellow Report is here
Here comes August's community update! 🚀
Releases
- Django-filer 3.2.0: django-filer 3.2 features a new permissions cache that for installations with many folders/users significantly increases responsiveness. The thumbnail generation process has been streamlined: no SVG thumbnails for the directory listings and fewer sizes for other formats - saves storage space and improves speed. Finally, a bug has been fixed, allowing
Image.MAX_IMAGE_PIXELSto beNone. - Djangocms-text 0.2.2: A few bugs have been fixed, especially the missing styling for dialogue boxes when inline editing was disabled.
- Djangocms-bootstrap4 3.0.2: A small bug fix where the use of
gettext_lazyled to an exception.
Contributions
In August, we have merged 21 pull requests, 5 to django CMS’ core, 5 to django-filer, 2 to djangocms-snippet, djangocms-text, djangocms-bootstrap4 each. Special thanks go to this month’s contributors Dmytro Litvinov, joshyu, KCuppens, Mark Walker, and Mario.
Our support page now offers AI support on the docs. Do you have a question on how to do something with django CMS, go try and ask the AI!
Finally, let me point you to Filip Weidemann’s new blog post on search for django CMS 4. Filip is the author of djangocms-haystack which allows creating search indices for your django CMS projects.
Fabian Braun
django CMS Fellow
Release
django CMS 5.1 is here: easier setup, flexible deployments, and a fresh editing experience
This release reduces friction across the whole project lifecycle: creating a new project, adding django CMS to an existing Django application, configuring larger deployments, controlling which plugins editors can use, and working with the CMS every day.
Release
django CMS 5.0.9 released: security, accessibility, and stability improvements
This release addresses three medium-severity security vulnerabilities and includes improvements to accessibility, Django compatibility, permissions, Content Security Policy support, and general editor stability.
Case Studies
How we built our professional services digital platform using django CMS
Compound Partners is a UK digital consultancy specialising in audience-centric user experience and content architecture for professional services firms. Fifteen years ago, a developer's recommendation pointed us at django CMS. Today, our entire business is built on it.