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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