Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2025

Django Internals
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Week ending 2025-12-21 (Week 51)

Security reports abated, so I chipped away at the review queue this week.

Triaged
#36801 (`construct_change_message`call `form.changed_data` after check if is add) – Django needsinfo
#36803 (Make AlterField a no-op when ManyToManyField's through.db_table remains the same between renames.) – Django accepted
#36804 (AdminSite.get_model_admin raises AttributeError when `to` model of a ForeignKey is defined as a string) – Django accepted
#36806 (Add system check for null kwarg in GeneratedField definition) – Django accepted
#36805 (Use `None` as default value for `from_email` in `send_mail`-function) – Django wontfix
#36807 (Admin fieldset field layout issue in the Safari browser.) – Django accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36808 accepted
#36740 (Replace MANIFEST.in with setuptools configuration via pyproject.toml) – Django accepted → wontfix
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30515 wontfix → accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36814 duplicate
Reviewed
Fixed #36701 -- Fixed memory leak in ModelState. by Samriddha9619 · Pull Request #20380 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36740 -- Favored pyproject.toml for packaging configuration. by p-r-a-v-i-n · Pull Request #20270 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20403
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20411
Fixed #36793, Refs #27489 -- Fixed a test and improved duplicate-permission handling. by artirix1927 · Pull Request #20339 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #32568 -- Replaced obvious mark_safe usages with SafeString for performance. by p-r-a-v-i-n · Pull Request #20287 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20416
Fixed #2259 -- Made manually specified primary keys readonly in the admin. by Svtter · Pull Request #20345 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36781 -- Added Granian to deployment documentation. by JaeHyuckSa · Pull Request #20400 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36747 -- Added support for parsing weeks in django.utils.dateparse.parse_duration(). by varunkasyap · Pull Request #20295 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36608 Clarify dumpdata behavior and docs for custom serializers with internal_use_only flag by Rudraksha-007 · Pull Request #20410 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36594 -- Improved UniqueConstraint's nulls_distinct system check warning by mriduldhall · Pull Request #19870 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #29257 -- Ensure SQLCompiler.execute_sql() raises original exception when cursor.close() fails. by VIZZARD-X · Pull Request #20321 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36708 Add default formset attribute to ChangeList by Rudraksha-007 · Pull Request #20184 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #27380 -- Added "raw" argument to m2m_changed signals. by felixxm · Pull Request #20067 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36487 -- Fixed logger error message with partial callbacks. by krishna-holvi · Pull Request #19609 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36714 -- Fixed context sharing for signals. by Arfey · Pull Request #20288 · django/django · GitHub
Updated docs with a warning about changing `DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD`. by alexei · Pull Request #20319 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/18805
Fixed #36808 -- Require name argument in UniqueConstraint signature. by jonbiemond · Pull Request #20423 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36806 -- Added system check for null kwarg in GeneratedField. by nileshpahari · Pull Request #20421 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36618 -- Corrected error message in BaseForm.add_error(). by nileshpahari · Pull Request #20426 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36376 -- Fixed color suppression in argparse help on Python 3.14+. by Skyiesac · Pull Request #20422 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36786 -- Fixed XML serialization of None values in natural keys. by 2ykwang · Pull Request #20420 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36305 -- Added documentation indentation guidelines to contributing docs. by Ankan0503 · Pull Request #20271 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36508 -- Interpreted __iexact=None on KeyTransforms as __exact=None. by cliffordgama · Pull Request #19793 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
Refs #36769 -- Raised SuspiciousOperation for unexpected nested tags in XML Deserializer. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20409 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36807 -- Fixed form field alignment under <fieldset> in the admin. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20418 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #27380 -- Added release note for raw argument to m2m_changed signal. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20429 · django/django · GitHub
tests/settings.py written outside mount · Issue #66 · django/django-docker-box · GitHub
#36812 (Drop support for MariaDB 10.6-10.10.) – Django
#36813 (Convert system checks for max_length and max_digits to __init__() checks.) – Django
Discussed
'Rendering model states... DONE', fails
Misc
Fellows sync
Board liaison meeting
engaged in security reports
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