Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2026

Django Internals
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Week ending 2026-03-22 (Week 12)

Easy to miss in the release notes (as we only described the user-facing changes for edge cases), but last week we landed (with great joy :tada:) @charettes’ defense-in-depth measure for the ORM that ensures user-provided aliases are always quoted.

In addition to the below, another steady week advancing pending security reports.

Triaged
#36991 (LookupError crash (HTTP 500) in parse_header_parameters() when Content-Type header contains RFC 2231 parameter with invalid encoding name) – Django accepted
#36986 (Add a hook to Serializer._value_from_field() for complex fields like CompositePrimaryKey) – Django accepted
#36980 (TranslationCatalog.__getitem__ gives wrong priority to non-plural translations when plural forms mismatch) – Django worksforme
#36983 (Improve free-threading performance) – Django someday/maybe
#36974 (SimpleUploadedFile should support text mode) – Django needsnewfeatureprocess
#36975 (SimpleUploadedFile cannot be re-opened) – Django duplicate
#36984 (Prevent extremely long validation messages in inlines) – Django accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36985 accepted
#36982 (Docs for `ModelAdmin.list_filter` don't mention bare `ListFilter` subclasses as a valid element type) – Django accepted → invalid
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36993 accepted
Reviewed
Fixed #36894 -- Added TypeError for conflicting arguments in mail APIs. by prafulgulani · Pull Request #20685 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36949 -- Ensured <select> elements rendered inside fieldsets have an associated label. by bhuvnesh-nama · Pull Request #20933 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36926 -- Made admin use boolean icons for related BooleanFields in list_display by Huwaiza · Pull Request #20718 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20903
Fixed #36939 -- Avoided weakref.finalize in Signal.connect(). by vastus · Pull Request #20754 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed `#15759` - Excluded formset fields by per-object permissions by artirix1927 · Pull Request #19743 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20587
https://github.com/django/django/pull/18805
Fixed #36799 -- Added a how-to guide for testing pre-releases. by VIZZARD-X · Pull Request #20938 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36938 -- Removed unnecessary ORDER BY from UNION components in subqueries on Oracle. by HarishBonu0 · Pull Request #20850 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #20562 -- Document how to use Django ORM with multiprocessing. by Australia19-11-2023 · Pull Request #20886 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20792
Fixed #36904 -- Clarified how to hide form field labels in docs. by aadeina · Pull Request #20654 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36863 -- Described caveats for async usage. by Arfey · Pull Request #20949 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36960 -- Enabled the use of psycopg 3's optimized timestamp loader. by akx · Pull Request #20911 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
#36987 (UUIDField.get_db_prep_value does not observe prepared argument) – Django
Fixed #36987 -- Observed prepared argument in UUIDField.get_db_prep_value(). by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20901 · django/django · GitHub
Skipped check_commit_messages action on forks. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20922 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36620 -- Fixed coverage comment deletion. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20947 · django/django · GitHub
Misc
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