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
Article
Plugin Architecture Is Editor Experience
Lessons from building the component architecture behind the new django CMS website.
Article
Make Your Django Application Editable
The CMS doesn't need to own your data to make it editable.
Release
django CMS 5.0.11 and 5.1.2 released
Both are patch releases focused on security, stability, and compatibility. We recommend that users of the django CMS 5.0 and 5.1 series upgrade.