Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2025

Django Internals
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Week ending 2025-09-07 (Week 36)

Triaged
#36597 (Email docs incorrectly use :meth: for functions) – Django Accepted
Reviewed
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19685
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19798
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19750
Fixed #36481 -- Fixed QuerySet.update concrete fields check. by rpkilby · Pull Request #19595 · django/django · GitHub
fix #31834 sqlmigrate command error when field are added in unique_together by bishnusyangja · Pull Request #19590 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/17554
Refs #33783 -- Added IsEmpty GIS database function and __isempty lookup on SpatiaLite. by smithdc1 · Pull Request #18638 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36588 -- Added warning about malicious app and project templates by RealOrangeOne · Pull Request #19814 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19753
Refs #36559, #35667 -- Replaced stacklevel with skip_file_prefixes by FarhanAliRaza · Pull Request #19816 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36225 -- Removed misleading clause about non-unique USERNAME_FIELD from auth docs. by TheDhm · Pull Request #19815 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #35961 -- Conformed license metadata to PEP 639 specification. by mbeijen · Pull Request #18892 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36121 -- Fixed location of release note. by adamchainz · Pull Request #19819 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #35667 -- Cached Django file prefixes for warnings. by adamchainz · Pull Request #19823 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36524 -- Enabled docs cross references to EmailMessage methods. by medmunds · Pull Request #19810 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/18823
Authored
#36589 (assertTemplateUsed asserts against template partial name regardless of origin) – Django
Removed DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #59 · django/django-docker-box · GitHub
#36596 (django_test_skips and django_test_expected_failures have no effect on the parallel test runner in "spawn" mode) – Django
Add support for chaining `in_bulk()` after `values()`/`values_list()` · Issue #74 · django/new-features · GitHub
Bootstrapped Django 6.1. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #19824 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed typo in docs/ref/contrib/contenttypes.txt. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #19825 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #23337 -- Raised exception if squashed migration created circular dependency. by bcail · Pull Request #18829 · django/django · GitHub
Discussed
#36520 (Performance Regression in parse_header_params) – Django
#35667 (Switch usage to skip_file_prefixes instead of stacklevel when it makes sense) – Django
Misc
- Fellows sync
- Shadowed security release
- Steering Council meeting
- Engaged in security reports
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