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Watch the live stream: Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Shortcut Special guest: Morleh So-kargbo Michael #1: Django 4.0 beta 1 released Django 4.0 beta 1 is now available. Django 4.0 has an abundance of new features The new *expressions positional argument of UniqueConstraint() enables creating functional unique constraints on expressions and database functions. The new scrypt password hasher is more secure and recommended over PBKDF2. The new django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache cache backend provides built-in support for caching with Redis. To enhance customization of Forms, Formsets, and ErrorList they are now rendered using the template engine. Brian #2: py - The Python launcher py has been bundled with Python for Windows only since Python 3.3, as py.exe See Python Launcher for Windows I’ve mostly ignored it since I use Python on Windows, MacOS, and Linux and don’t want to have different workflows on different systems. But now Brett Cannon has developed python-launcher