What's new in Django 5.0!

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:

00:00 Intro
00:10 New feature: db_default
00:59 New feature: GeneratedField
02:16 Other ORM new features
02:47 New feature: as_field_group
04:16 Community update

Resources:
Release notes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev...
Blog article on favourite features of 5.0 by Mariusz Felisiak: https://fly.io/django-beats/new-goodi...
Blog article on generated columns for SQLite by Paulo Melchiorre: https://www.paulox.net/2023/11/07/dat...
Blog article on generated columns for PostgreSQL by Paulo Melchiorre: https://www.paulox.net/2023/11/24/dat...
Blog article on using the new form features by David Smith: https://smithdc.uk/blog/2023/bootstra...
DjangoCon conference talk Good Form by David Smith:    • DjangoCon Europe 2023 | Good form: Ho...  

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/89e25...

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