Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2026

Django Internals
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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