Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2026

Django Internals
1

Week ending 2026-01-04 (Week 01)

Put in a half-week focusing on clearing 6.0 release blockers before taking a long weekend to ring in the New Year :bell:.

Triaged
#36203 (AdminSplitDateTime labels are not associated with their inputs) – Django accepted → fixed
#36828 (Evaluate using <fieldset> on ClearableFileInput) – Django accepted
#36833 (HttpRequest.accepted_types incorrectly splits Accept header on commas inside quoted parameter values) – Django needsinfo
#36831 (Add validation for CSP directive names and values in build_policy()) – Django wontfix
Reviewed
Fixed #36822 -- Added parameter limit for PostgreSQL with server-side binding. by JaeHyuckSa · Pull Request #20461 · django/django · GitHub
Bump checkout action to newer versions by p-r-a-v-i-n · Pull Request #20430 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36804 -- Handled string passed to the get_model_admin method o… by parth-paradkar · Pull Request #20416 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20339
Fixed #36829 -- Revert unintended ClearableFileInput.use_fieldset change by codingjoe · Pull Request #20471 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
Fixed #36793 -- Fixed various issues in RenamePermission. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20481 · django/django · GitHub
#36839 (Renaming of content types on RenameModel operations silently passes when duplicates are found) – Django
Misc
engaged in security reports
Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2025
2

Week ending 2026-01-11 (Week 02)

Released 5.2.10 and 6.0.1 this week. Now it’s time to shift focus to priorities for 6.1, which is about halfway to feature freeze.

Triaged
#36842 (HTML validation of non-float values in admin number widgets allows submitting invalid entries to succeed if blank=True) – Django wontfix
#36847 (FileField(upload_to=...) callback no longer sees `auto_now_add ` field) – Django accepted
#36846 (ContentType.get_object_for_this_type() raises inappropriate exception type for removed models) – Django accepted
#36855 (Field.pre_save() called twice during save() in Django 6.0 when inserting new records) – Django accepted
#36854 (Update GEOS bindings to remove usage of deprecated functions) – Django accepted
#36845 (Allow negative index in Left() for PostgreSQL) – Django needsnewfeatureprocess
#36850 (Django Admin filter sidebar wraps if its inner content becomes too large) – Django accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36851 duplicate
#36853 (Technical 500 email styling broken in Gmail due to :where() CSS selector) – Django accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36857 accepted
#36837 (Client.force_login won't work for permission-only backends inheriting from BaseBackend) – Django needsnewfeatureprocess
Reviewed
Fixed #29257 -- Caught DatabaseError when attempting to close a possibly already-closed cursor. by VIZZARD-X · Pull Request #20321 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36841 -- Made multipart parser class pluggable on HttpRequest. by FarhanAliRaza · Pull Request #20498 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36844 -- Clarified need for reusable apps to set default_auto_field in packaging tutorial and AppConfig docs. by aadeina · Pull Request #20503 · django/django · GitHub
Extended the GitHub pull request template to require AI assistance disclosure. by nessita · Pull Request #19594 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36852 -- Ignored index_type case in ExclusionConstraint.__eq__(). by hakib · Pull Request #20510 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #13883 -- Added optgroups for SelectBox in Admin (updated). by seanhelvey · Pull Request #18934 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36804 -- Fixed admin system check crash for missing models. by parth-paradkar · Pull Request #20416 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36750 -- Ensure deterministic DB-level ordering of natural-key M2M relations in serializers. by VIZZARD-X · Pull Request #20308 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36189 -- Deprecated use_returning_into option for Oracle backend. by ybjeon01 · Pull Request #19930 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36815 -- Optimized insertion of db_default fields in bulk_create(). by YashRaj1506 · Pull Request #20493 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36853 -- Fixed technical 500 and 404 email CSS support. by sipa-echo-zaoa · Pull Request #20511 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #35875 -- Added dark mode support in additional views. by emmebravo · Pull Request #18801 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36639 -- Added CI step to run makemigrations --check against t... by Skyiesac · Pull Request #20466 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36857 -- Added QuerySet.totally_ordered property. by VIZZARD-X · Pull Request #20518 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
Fixed #36843, #36793 -- Reverted "Fixed #27489 -- Renamed permissions upon model renaming in migrations." by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20497 · django/django · GitHub
#36843 (RenamePermission might operate on unrelated models) – Django
#36844 (Update packaging tutorial and AppConfig docs to mandate setting default_auto_field for reusable apps) – Django
Made release test script use a random available port. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20501 · django/django · GitHub
Evaluate using `i18n_patterns` to support language-agnostic links · Issue #2438 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub
Refs #470 -- Fixed further field_defaults test failures due to year-end boundary conditions. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20502 · django/django · GitHub
Handling conflicts when renaming permissions in concert with renaming models - #2 by zybex86
Fixed #35402 -- Fixed crash in django_test_skips for unimported submodules. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20519 · django/django · GitHub
Discussed
Refs #470 -- Fixed field_defaults test failures due to year-end boundary conditions. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #18983 · django/django · GitHub
#26630 (Defered constraint checks flush after `post_delete` signal) – Django
Misc
Monthly steering council meeting
Weekly Fellows sync
Released 6.0.1
Attended DSF office hours
Engaged in security reports
1 Like
3

Week ending 2026-01-18 (Week 03)

Took a day off to visit with family. Resuscitated some paused work on improving the reliability of Django’s test skips mechanism.

Triaged
#36801 (`construct_change_message`call `form.changed_data` after check if is add) – Django needsinfo → accepted
#26886 (TECHNICAL_404_TEMPLATE logs an "Exception while resolving variable" warning for URLResolver in urlpatterns) – Django duplicate
#36862 (Clarify RemoteUserMiddleware usage and deployment requirements under ASGI) – Django accepted
#26630 (Defered constraint checks flush after `post_delete` signal) – Django accepted → duplicate
#36860 (Annotate after Union using django-cte breaks with django 5.2) – Django invalid
#36153 (Remove or replace unmantained pylibmc package from Django dependencies) – Django someday → wontfix
Reviewed
Fixed #36804 -- Fixed admin system check crash for missing models. by parth-paradkar · Pull Request #20416 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36858 -- Optimized `Field._get_default()` for `db_default` case. by adamchainz · Pull Request #20526 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36639 -- Added CI step to run makemigrations --check against t... by Skyiesac · Pull Request #20466 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36821 -- Treated empty strings as NULL for iexact lookups on Oracle. by JaeHyuckSa · Pull Request #20460 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36801 -- Avoided unnecessary calculation in construct_change_message(). by adamchainz · Pull Request #20524 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #35442 -- Prevented N+1 queries in RelatedManager with only(). by Samriddha9619 · Pull Request #20495 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36856 -- Mentioned needsnewfeatureprocess resolution in contributor docs. by aadeina · Pull Request #20535 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36855, Refs #27222 -- Mentioned multiple invocations of Field.pre_save() in 6.0 release notes. by kundan223 · Pull Request #20534 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36189 -- Deprecated use_returning_into option for Oracle backend. by ybjeon01 · Pull Request #19930 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #34699 -- Added warning about using Trunc functions in filters by coolbootscoder · Pull Request #18660 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36822 -- Added parameter limit for PostgreSQL with server-side binding. by JaeHyuckSa · Pull Request #20461 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36352 -- Improved error message for fields excluded by prior values()/values_list() calls. by JaeHyuckSa · Pull Request #19478 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36030 -- Fixed precision loss in division of Decimal literals on SQLite. by VIZZARD-X · Pull Request #20309 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36382 -- Updated GDAL tests for Memory driver deprecation in GDAL 3.11 by smithdc1 · Pull Request #20515 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
#36864 (Automatic shell imports cannot reliably handle submodules) – Django
Fixed #36864 -- Deprecated passing submodules to import_string(). by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20536 · django/django · GitHub
Bumped linter versions in requirements files and tox.ini. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20537 · django/django · GitHub
Discussed
#34699 (Filtering on annotated TruncSecond expression gives unexpected result.) – Django
#29843 (Create permissions using migration operations rather than using the post_migrate signal) – Django
Misc
Monthly board liaison checkin
Montly ops meeting
Fellows sync
Fellows line manager checkin
Website deployment training
1 Like
4

Week ending 2026-01-25 (Week 04)

Engaged in a fair number of security reports this week. Release date and number of issues for 6.0.2 to be finalized and publicized tomorrow.

Triaged
#36870 (Insufficient contrast in console-style code blocks) – Django invalid
#36873 (Improve visual aspects of related-widget-wrapper icons.) – Django accepted
#36876 (Model timestamp fields get different values using auto_now) – Django invalid
#36788 (Admin fieldsets no longer arranged horizontally) – Django accepted
#36872 (Django's template engine cannot handle asynchronous methods) – Django accepted → wontfix
Reviewed
Fixed #36639 -- Added CI step to run makemigrations --check against test models. by Skyiesac · Pull Request #20466 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36233 -- Fixed SQLite DecimalField precision loss for large in… by Samriddha9619 · Pull Request #20346 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36030 -- Fixed precision loss in division of Decimal literals on SQLite. by VIZZARD-X · Pull Request #20309 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/18934
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20492
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20528
Fixed #36233 -- Fixed SQLite DecimalField precision loss for large in… by Samriddha9619 · Pull Request #20346 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20570
Incorporated checklist-generator app into main project. by nessita · Pull Request #2467 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub
Authored
Refs #36382 -- Fixed GDAL_VERSION comparison in gdal_tests. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20564 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36620 -- Ran coverage tests workflow on forks. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20573 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #33735 -- Coped with stacklevel change in ASGITest.test_file_response(). by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20575 · django/django · GitHub
Dropped support for Python 3.9. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #543 · django/asgiref · GitHub
Fixed #36788 -- Fixed horizontal form field alignment under <fieldset> in the admin. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20576 · django/django · GitHub
[django] Add contact by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #14835 · google/oss-fuzz · GitHub
[django] Bump Python to 3.12.12 by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #14841 · google/oss-fuzz · GitHub
Discussed
Allow querying RelatedManagers on unsaved objects
Can the migration system be extended by third-party apps?
Misc
engaged in (many!) security reports
Fellows sync
2 Likes
5

Week ending 2026-02-01 (Week 05)

This was a week of steady progress making incremental improvements to the ORM and the admin, primarily.

Triaged
#36884 (Translation of admin log messages fails due to case inconsistency in field names) – Django accepted
#36874 (Speed up mask/unmask cipher secret functions) – Django accepted
#36891 (What is the recommended database driver for python 3.14 and MariaDB & MySQL, is mysqlclient and of life?) – Django invalid
#36863 (Under WSGI, multiple calls to asgiref.sync.async_to_sync within the same request do not share the same event loop.) – Django someday/maybe
#36892 (Lazy Tuples in field Choices generate repeated migrations with no changes) – Django accepted
#36893 (MigrationWriter doesn't serialise elidable kwarg) – Django accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36882 accepted
#36890 (Allow providing distinct=True to StringAgg on SQLite by specifying the default delimiter) – Django accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36875 wontfix
#36895 (mysql,noble-pr,python3.13 and mysql_gis,noble-pr,python3.12 Jenkins CI jobs are are failing) – Django invalid
Reviewed
Fixed #36850 -- Prevented admin filter sidebar from wrapping below the changelist. by nileshpahari · Pull Request #20528 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36776 -- Clarified dev server runs in WSGI mode. by jafarkhan83 · Pull Request #20589 · django/django · GitHub
Filtered inactive releases in get_latest_micro_release(). by nessita · Pull Request #2482 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub
Fixed #36874 -- Optimized CSRF token generation a bit. by tim-lansen · Pull Request #20566 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36878 -- Unified data type for *_together options in ModelState. by MarkusH · Pull Request #20574 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36857 -- Added QuerySet.totally_ordered property. by VIZZARD-X · Pull Request #20518 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36644 -- Add deprecation warning for order_by() without arguments used with first()/last(). by nileshpahari · Pull Request #20458 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36865 -- Removed casting from exact lookups in admin searches. by mlissner · Pull Request #20538 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36233 -- Avoided quantizing integers stored in DecimalField on SQLite. by Samriddha9619 · Pull Request #20346 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36795 -- Enforced quoting of all database object names. by charettes · Pull Request #20587 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed spell checks in GH docs workflow. by nessita · Pull Request #20610 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #35943 -- Replaced event listener unload with visibilitychange. by petervanderdoes · Pull Request #20611 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36841 -- Made multipart parser class pluggable on HttpRequest. by FarhanAliRaza · Pull Request #20498 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #27574 -- Added support for ST_Distance_Sphere function on MySQL. by Skyiesac · Pull Request #20581 · django/django · GitHub
Added documentation on reviewing patches. by tim-schilling · Pull Request #20599 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36885 -- Wrap long admin filter labels in sidebar. by harshgautam5678 · Pull Request #20600 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36893 -- Serialized elidable kwarg for RunSQL and RunPython operations. by SnippyCodes · Pull Request #20614 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36857 -- Added QuerySet.totally_ordered property. by VIZZARD-X · Pull Request #20518 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36468 -- Fixed failure to close popup when adding a related object in the admin. by maqnius · Pull Request #19923 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36879 -- Updated lib-name for redis cache by ar3ph · Pull Request #20580 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36885
Caught expected failures. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #5 · django/django-fuzzers · GitHub
[checklists] Render times in UTC, fix typo, add @never_cache by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #2480 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub
Bumped minimum MariaDB version to 10.11 by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #67 · django/django-docker-box · GitHub
#36887 (Unnecessary space introduced at top of changelist pages in 6.0) – Django
Fixed #36887 -- Improved admin changelist layout for object-tools button. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20601 · django/django · GitHub
[checklists] Fix UTC template tag use by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #2483 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub
Doc'd the minimum version of bash for releasing Django. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20607 · django/django · GitHub
[4.2.x] Refs #36499 -- Adjusted test_strip_tags to run on Python 3.8. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20608 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #34118 -- Removed asgiref coroutine detection shims. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20618 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36865 -- Fixed test_exact_lookup_validates_each_field_independently() crash. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20623 · django/django · GitHub
Discussed
#35946 (Postgres ArrayField should convert values when given a list) – Django
Misc
Engaged in security reports
Fellows sync
Sent prenotifications and created metadata for security releases
Collaborated with DSF board assistant in DSF Office Hours to compile links for prospective sponsors
Drafted blog post about increased volume of security reports
2 Likes
6

Week ending 2026-02-08 (Week 06)

Triaged
#36898 (Document `Session.is_empty`) – Django accepted
#36900 (startproject and startapp do not sanitize filename from Content-Disposition header) – Django accepted
#14087 (django.core.management.get_commands only sees commands in the last package of a namespace package) – Django fixed
#18603 (Adding support for PEP 302 importers) – Django needsinfo
#36903 (inspect.signature should use FORWARDREF annotation_format for python 3.14+) – Django accepted
#36905 (Remove safe parameter from JsonResponse) – Django accepted
#36904 (Form Field label - improve documentation to explain how to omit labels) – Django accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36896 needsinfo
Reviewed
Fixed #36795 -- Enforced quoting of all database object names. by charettes · Pull Request #20587 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36879 -- Identified Django client in Redis client metadata. by ar3ph · Pull Request #20580 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36893 -- Serialized elidable kwarg for RunSQL and RunPython operations. by SnippyCodes · Pull Request #20614 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36898 -- Documented SessionBase.is_empty(). by jafarkhan83 · Pull Request #20630 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20518
Fixed selenium tests in Firefox. by pbratkowski · Pull Request #17562 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #27489 -- Renamed permissions upon model renaming in migrations. by artirix1927 · Pull Request #20539 · django/django · GitHub
Added DatabaseFeatures.supports_inspectdb. by timgraham · Pull Request #20455 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #33579 -- Added extra tests for NotUpdated exception. by ngnpope · Pull Request #20636 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36644 -- Enabled empty order_by() to avoid pk ordering by first()/last(). by nileshpahari · Pull Request #20458 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #34352 -- Unified terms in Signals docs. by Hossamfc9 · Pull Request #20634 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #27574 -- Added support for ST_Distance_Sphere function on MySQL. by Skyiesac · Pull Request #20581 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #26739 -- Made reverse RemoveField handle non-nullable columns. by priyapahwa · Pull Request #20482 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36903 -- Inspect signature with deferred annotations by 93578237 · Pull Request #20646 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36036 -- Added m dimension to GEOSCoordSeq. by smithdc1 · Pull Request #20338 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36509 -- Missing aria label on input fields in tables. by jafarkhan83 · Pull Request #20596 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36246 -- Caught `GDALException` in `BaseGeometryWidget.deserialize`. by JaeHyuckSa · Pull Request #19256 · django/django · GitHub
Docs: clarify backend operators for text lookups by mohitvkumar-dev · Pull Request #20649 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
Reenable eslint pre-commit hook by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #68 · django/django-docker-box · GitHub
[checklists] Advise to mention EOL dates by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #2497 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub
Refs #36620 -- Guarded coverage tests workflow behind a label. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20642 · django/django · GitHub
#36901 (Centralize mitigations against timing attacks targeting user enumeration) – Django
#36906 (Oracle guard for coalescing text & varchar doesn't fathom JSONField) – Django
Caught further expected failures. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #6 · django/django-fuzzers · GitHub
Discussed
#36441 (Add lazy loading support for GDAL library in `django.contrib.gis.gdal`) – Django
#33586 (Applying RunPython backward results in ValueError when involved models are referenced through multiple foreign keys) – Django
Misc
Engaged in security reports
Fellows sync
Issued security releases
Monthly steering council meeting
4 Likes
7

Week ending 2026-02-15 (Week 07)

Triaged
#36910 (When using daphne, if some process is already listening on our preferred port, `runserver` does not exit with a failure code.) – Django invalid
#36911 (Raise an error when GeneratedField provided to fields argument of bulk_update()) – Django wontfix
#36916 (Add support for streaming with TaskGroups) – Django accepted
#36917 (sqlmigrate should accept migration file path as single argument) – Django wontfix
#36918 (Docs: Minor formatting cleanup) – Django invalid
#36913 (Optimise ChoiceField / MultipleChoiceField handling of duplicate submissions) – Django accepted
#36922 (AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'extend' when subclassing BuiltinLookup and swapping the lhs and rhs params) – Django needsinfo → invalid
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36923 accepted
#36914 (Inconsistent option background color in M2M select widget for TabularInline.) – Django accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36924 accepted
Reviewed
Fixed #36885 -- Wrap long admin filter labels in sidebar by harshgautam5678 · Pull Request #20622 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36903 -- Fixed further NameErrors when inspecting functions with deferred annotations. by 93578237 · Pull Request #20646 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36890 -- Supported StringAgg(distinct=True) on SQLite with the default delimiter. by varunkasyap · Pull Request #20628 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36892 -- Fixed lazy object serialization bug in migration writer. by matthewarmand · Pull Request #20664 · django/django · GitHub
Modified tests to format PKs with %s rather than %d. by timgraham · Pull Request #20660 · django/django · GitHub
Added missing test skips observed on MongoDB. by timgraham · Pull Request #20659 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36293 -- Added zfile.flush to reduce time and added docs by FarhanAliRaza · Pull Request #20401 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20672
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19105
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20518
Extended tests for QuerySet.union() in tests/queries/test_qs_combinators.py. by timgraham · Pull Request #20662 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36914 -- Updated background color for select options in TabularInline. by Antoliny0919 · Pull Request #20665 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36513 -- Improved text contrast for admin M2M multi-select widget. by nileshpahari · Pull Request #20404 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36921 -- Fixed KeyError when adding inline instances of models not registered with admin. by seanhelvey · Pull Request #20679 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #31908 -- Added parallel testing support to Oracle backend. by WalkingDevFlag · Pull Request #20492 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36670 -- Fixed incorrect background color of the selector chooser in the admin filter_vertical widget. by Antoliny0919 · Pull Request #19971 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36839 - Prevent silent failure when renaming ContentType by Moksha25-tech · Pull Request #20491 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19713
Optimized SQLite `DatabaseOperations.check_expression_support()`. by adamchainz · Pull Request #20670 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36667 -- Added guidance on helping PRs get reviewed faster. by JyothsnaMS · Pull Request #20680 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36839 -- Warned when model renames encounter conflicts from stale ContentTypes. by AbhimanyuGit2507 · Pull Request #20696 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
Clarified optional nature of Contributor License Agreement. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20656 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36644 -- Documented no pk ordering in first()/last() after empty order_by(). by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20657 · django/django · GitHub
#36912 (Q.create() doesn't validate connectors as Q.__init__() does) – Django
Refs #35444 -- Doc'd deprecation in contrib.postgres.aggreggates.StringAgg.delimiter. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20658 · django/django · GitHub
#36920 (Alignment issue in admin fieldset legends) – Django
#36921 (KeyError when adding new objects two relations deep via inlines but the intermediate model is not registered with the admin) – Django
Refs #35809 -- Fixed test_selectbox_selected_rows() on macOS. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20677 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36620 -- Removed stray + from coverage comment workflow step. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20686 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36770 -- Terminated LiveServerThread in additional error conditions. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20688 · django/django · GitHub
Installed libmemcached-dev in screenshots workflow. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20694 · django/django · GitHub
Discussed
#36770 (SQLite threading tests are flaky when parallel test suite runs in forkserver mode) – Django
Misc
Fellows sync
Engaged in security reports
Monthly board liaison checkin
Monthly line manager checkin
Monthly ops office hours
8

Week ending 2026-02-22 (Week 08)

Short week with a US holiday and some travel to visit family.

Triaged
#36936 (django-docker-box tests fail when running sqlite tests) – Django accepted
#36937 (Add missing positive test cases for @permission_required in test_client) – Django accepted
#36935 (ContentType.app_labeled_name fallback omits app label when model_class() is None) – Django accepted
#36931 (Unhandled LookupError in multipart parser when RFC 2231 encoding name is invalid) – Django accepted
Reviewed
Fixed #36888 -- Made QuerySet.acreate() call asave(). by Materson · Pull Request #20602 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19105
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20666
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20308
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20308
Fixed #36920 -- Fixed alignment of fieldset legends in wide admin forms. by musmannn · Pull Request #20735 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36667 -- Added guidance on helping PRs get reviewed faster. by JyothsnaMS · Pull Request #20680 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36935 -- Added fallback in ContentType.app_labeled_name when model_class() is None. by mrhaubrich · Pull Request #20727 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36899 -- Implemented SessionBase.__bool__. by aadeina · Pull Request #20631 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36937 -- Added missing positive permission tests in test_client. by saishmungase · Pull Request #20733 · django/django · GitHub
Ticket 28341 lazy geometry by AbhimanyuGit2507 · Pull Request #20687 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #32723 -- Documented annotation name conflicts in values() and … by Asmi768 · Pull Request #20750 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
[6.0.x] Fixed #36934, Refs #35972 -- Coped with params in a tuple in BuiltinLookup.as_sql(). by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20734 · django/django · GitHub
#36938 (Unioning an ordered queryset fails on Oracle unless a limit is taken) – Django
Refs #36938 -- Marked a test for union of ordered querysets as an expected failure on Oracle. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20744 · django/django · GitHub
Discussed
Extended tests for QuerySet.union() in tests/queries/test_qs_combinators.py. by timgraham · Pull Request #20662 · django/django · GitHub
Misc
Engaged in security reports
Fellows sync
3 Likes
9

Week ending 2026-03-01 (Week 09)

Two cool features landed this week: @Antoliny0919’s more standard vertical layout for inputs and labels in admin forms, and Artyom Kotovskiy’s work to make RenameModel migration operations update permission names as well.

Triaged
#36944 (Truncator's docstring states that `MAX_LENGTH_HTML` is enforced but is not, also `truncatechars_html` and `truncatewords_html` docs should be corrected) – Django accepted
#36946 (Running tests on SQLite with --parallel (using spawn) does not respect DATABASES["TEST"]["NAME"]) – Django accepted
#36926 (Admin list_display does not use boolean icons when traversing relations) – Django accepted
#36359 (id_for_label undefined for AdminReadonlyField) – Django duplicate
#36925 (InlineModelAdmin docs do not mention view_on_site as a shared feature with ModelAdmin) – Django accepted
#36930 (Using a custom ModelChoices (not IntegerChoices or TextChoices) member as the default value of a model field doesn't select the default value in form's select) – Django accepted
#36932 (Admin renders label after widget for non-model form fields when using FilteredSelectMultiple) – Django needsinfo
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36943 accepted
#36940 (Improve ASGI script prefix path_info handling) – Django accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36915 invalid
#36955 (Add strict template variable support with global and per-variable configuration) – Django needsnewfeatureprocess
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36953 accepted
#36942 (SimpleTestCase._remove_databases_failures() is not idempotent and crashes on complex MRO.) – Django needsinfo
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36956 accepted
#36959 (Model bases isn't updated when changing parent classes) – Django duplicate
#36958 (Have test client reload logging when logging setting changed) – Django accepted
Reviewed
Deleted leaking loop iter vars in `smartif.py`. by sobolevn · Pull Request #20760 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36931 -- Handled LookupError in multipart parser for invalid RFC 2231 encoding by sammiee5311 · Pull Request #20714 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20308
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19713
Refs #36652, #36936 -- Improved path manipulation in a migration test launching a subprocess. by pmppk · Pull Request #20728 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36944 -- Removed MAX_LENGTH_HTML and related 5M chars limit references from HTML truncation docs. by nessita · Pull Request #20766 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36948 -- Fixed breadcrumb text overlap at small widths. by aadeina · Pull Request #20764 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36926 -- Made admin use boolean icons for related BooleanFields in list_display by Huwaiza · Pull Request #20718 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36359 -- Added id_for_label to AdminReadonlyField. by prachisingh342006 · Pull Request #20743 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36951 -- Removed empty exc_info from log_task_finished signal handler. by knifecake · Pull Request #20722 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36848 -- Updated defaults.bad_request view documentation by LincolnPuzey · Pull Request #20615 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36940 -- Improved ASGI script prefix path_info handling. by KhadyotTakale · Pull Request #20749 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36946 -- Respected test database name when running tests in parallel on SQLite. by laymonage · Pull Request #20768 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36936 -- Adjusted tests to set PYTHON_COLORS environment variable. by pmppk · Pull Request #20771 · django/django · GitHub
Adjusted default DoS severity level in Security Policy. by nessita · Pull Request #20778 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #20775 -- Clarify that SQL equivalents for text lookups are backend dependent by Australia19-11-2023 · Pull Request #20705 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #22079 -- Added tests for empty iterable stripping in RequestFactory. by anurag629 · Pull Request #20776 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #27489 -- Renamed permissions upon model renaming in migrations. by artirix1927 · Pull Request #20539 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #23919 -- Used yield from in Paginator. by Pierre-Sassoulas · Pull Request #20029 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20300
Fixed #36914 -- Updated background color for select options in TabularInline. by Antoliny0919 · Pull Request #20665 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
#36945 (.values() and .order_by() miss FilteredRelation when resolving aliases shadowing relationship traversals) – Django
#36948 (Overlap in admin breadcrumb text at small widths) – Django
#36949 (Missing label on each <select> in a fieldset) – Django
[5.2.x] Refs #36944 -- Added missing versionchanged annotation for MAX_LENGTH_HTML change. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20767 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #35972 -- Returned params in a tuple in further expressions. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20788 · django/django · GitHub
#36961 (django_file_prefixes() raises TypeError if Django is imported by namespace) – Django
Fixed #36961 -- Fixed TypeError in deprecation warnings if Django is imported by namespace. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20789 · django/django · GitHub
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Week ending 2026-03-08 (Week 10)

Was out sick for part of the week, but even so I fit in a small sprint on static files! That included merging @blighj’s fix for a decade-old (documented!) bug in collectstatic, and reviewing @codingjoe’s proposal to support CSP nonces in Media assets.

Triaged
#36960 (Django never uses psycopg 3's optimised timestamptzloader) – Django Someday/Maybe
#36965 (Modernizing the Django Admin UI/UX) – Django needsnewfeatureprocess
#36967 (Use graphlib's TopologicalSorter to handle circular imports similar to migrations) – Django accepted
#36968 (Provide better error messages when collectstatic can't find a file referenced in another file) – Django accepted
#36970 (Add Windows command for running runtests.py in contributing tutorial) – Django wontfix
#36972 (Provide keyboard feedback in createsuperuser and changepassword commands) – Django accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36978 invalid
Reviewed
Refs #35381 -- Moved JSONNull to django.db.models.expressions. by cliffordgama · Pull Request #20807 · django/django · GitHub
Aligned docs checks between GitHub Actions and local development. by nessita · Pull Request #20785 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #35943 -- Replaced unload event listener with pagehide. by aadeina · Pull Request #20805 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #20775 -- Clarified that SQL for text lookups varies per database. by Australia19-11-2023 · Pull Request #20705 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36923 -- Added tests for non-hierarchical URI schemes in URLField.to_python(). by nessita · Pull Request #20823 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #21080 -- Use a lexer for url substitutions in ManifestStaticFilesStorage. by blighj · Pull Request #19561 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36391 -- Doc'd RawSQL usage on “Performing raw SQL queries” page. by aadeina · Pull Request #20470 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36816 -- Allowed **kwargs in @task decorator to support custom Task subclasses by nileshpahari · Pull Request #20456 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36364 -- Fixed migrations crash when altering ForeignObject to/from a concrete field. by JaeHyuckSa · Pull Request #20551 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36926 -- Made admin use boolean icons for related BooleanFields in list_display by Huwaiza · Pull Request #20718 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36600 -- Clarified dispatch_uid usage for signal receivers. by aadeina · Pull Request #20467 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #21080 -- Ignored urls inside comments during collectstatic. by blighj · Pull Request #20828 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36729 -- Pre-compiled all regular expressions. by RealOrangeOne · Pull Request #20096 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36293 -- Avoided buffering streaming responses in GZipMiddleware. by FarhanAliRaza · Pull Request #20401 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36784 -- Added CSP nonce to media assets by codingjoe · Pull Request #20763 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36968 -- Improved error message when collectstatic can't find a referenced file. by blighj · Pull Request #20852 · django/django · GitHub
Provided script for preparing commit messages and updated relevant docs (two commits). by nessita · Pull Request #20854 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36940 -- Improved ASGI script prefix path_info handling. by KhadyotTakale · Pull Request #20749 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
Extended automatic checks and docs for proper commit message format. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20840 · django/django · GitHub
Optimized check_commit_messages GitHub action. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20862 · django/django · GitHub
Discussed
Run tests in postgis container by smithdc1 · Pull Request #20746 · django/django · GitHub
GitHub - frankwiles/pr-playground: Automatically close bad PRs · GitHub
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Fellows sync
Monthly steering council meeting
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