Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2025

Django Internals
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Week ending 2025-09-21 (Week 38)

Feature freeze week brought some excitement with last-minute tidy-ups to land for the tasks interface and for refreshing model fields assigned expressions on save(). Now’s the time to run project test suites against the 6.0 alpha and report issues!

Triaged
#36606 (Optimize QuerySet.values_list(flat=True) with no fields) – Django Accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34521 Accepted
Reviewed
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19847
Renamed local variables in CsrfViewMiddleware._origin_verified() for clarity. by vanschelven · Pull Request #18619 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36520 -- Reverted "Fixed #35440 -- Simplified parse_header_parameters by leveraging stdlid's Message." by nessita · Pull Request #19867 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19798
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19685
https://github.com/django/django/pull/18823
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19070
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19426
Fixed #36606 -- Optimized QuerySet.values_list(flat=True) without fields. by adamchainz · Pull Request #19844 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19871
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19864
Clarified feature freeze and alpha release steps in docs/internals/howto-release-django.txt. by nessita · Pull Request #19881 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19842
support query and fragment in redirect shortcut by winie · Pull Request #19883 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36480 -- Made values() resolving error mention unselected aliases. by shubhamsingh941889 · Pull Request #19845 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19884
Fixed #35453 -- ManyToManyField no longer flagged as a concrete field. by rpkilby · Pull Request #19602 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36584 -- Fixed RHS subquery cardinality check to allow ForeignObject selection by JaeHyuckSa · Pull Request #19799 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36369: Added tests to verify FORWARD_PROPERTIES and REVERSE_PROPERTIES cache behaviours. by jrsenthil-kumar2312 · Pull Request #19645 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36438 -- Simplified retrieval of GeneratedField base fields in migrations autodetector. by cliffordgama · Pull Request #19860 · django/django · GitHub
Added tabs for queues. by ontowhee · Pull Request #266 · django/code.djangoproject.com · GitHub
Authored
#36611 (Model validation of constraint involving ForeignObject considers only first column) – Django
Refs #27222 -- Deduplicated db_returning fields in Model.save(). by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #19869 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #35859 -- Removed deferral of task enqueuing until transaction commit. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #19876 · django/django · GitHub
Prevent EOL date from being set on alpha1 releases by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #2208 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub
Refs #28526 -- Provided URLResolver namespace in technical 404 template. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #19880 · django/django · GitHub
Improve error handling, add help text, other tidy ups by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #18 · nessita/checklist-generator · GitHub
Refs #36152, #35667 -- Used skip_file_prefixes in deprecation warning for aliases with "%". by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #19882 · django/django · GitHub
Discussed
https://github.com/django/django/pull/18627
#36611 (Model validation of constraint involving ForeignObject considers only first column) – Django
Misc/Other
Engaged in security reports
Fellows sync
Familiarized myself with checklist generator for releases
Supported 6.0a1 release
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