Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2026

Django Internals
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Week ending 2026-03-29 (Week 13)

This week we advanced some design discussions around extending CSP support into the admin and into Form.Media. Otherwise, investigations into security reports and preparations for an upcoming release dominated the week.

Triaged
#37003 (Why does StaticLiveServerTestCase breaks fixtures when dynamically generating tests beside TestCase does not?) – Django needsinfo
#37006 (Attempting to recreate the PK in a model with no other fields generates a migration that crashes on SQLite) – Django accepted
#27150 (Wrong File object behavior if file object has no name attribute) – Django accepted
Reviewed
Fixed #36364 -- Fixed migrations crash when altering ForeignObject to/from a concrete field. by JaeHyuckSa · Pull Request #20551 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36999 -- Simplify migration explanation by removing Ruby on Rails comparison by VinayDattarao · Pull Request #20974 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #10919 -- Added ModelAdmin option to truncate delete confirmation object list. by rodbv · Pull Request #20903 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #27734 -- Add helpful error message for invalid parallel test worker index. by AaravBot · Pull Request #20971 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36976 -- Made admin action counter a live region for screen readers. by davitacols · Pull Request #20856 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36913 -- Optimized MultipleChoiceField.validate(). by anjaniacatus · Pull Request #20960 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36494 -- Prevented crash in JSONField numeric lookups with expressions. by VIZZARD-X · Pull Request #20702 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36913 -- Maintained error message determinism in MultipleChoiceField.validate(). by anjaniacatus · Pull Request #20998 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36507 -- Documented prefetch_related behavior in union. by camuthig · Pull Request #19929 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #29762 -- Document how database routers are used for related-object access. by VIZZARD-X · Pull Request #20310 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36526 -- Fixed bulk_update() batching example in docs. by verigak · Pull Request #20946 · django/django · GitHub
Fix #36991 - Prevent LookUp error crash in parse_header_parameters() for invalid RFC 2231 names and sends a correct HTTP 400 code instead of HTTP 500 by DineshThumma9 · Pull Request #20962 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
#37004 (BaseModelFormSet could leverage totally_ordered property) – Django
Discouraging "the voice from nowhere" (~LLMs) in documentation
#37007 (Extend contributor writing style section to counsel against the kinds of mistakes LLMs make) – Django
[checklists] Remove reference to IBB by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #2572 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub
https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/extract-isnt-safe-to-use-in-db-default-on-sqlite-if-time-zone-changes-at-some-point
Discussed
CSP nonce support for form Media classes and admin scripts
Misc
Engaged in security reports
Fellows weekly sync
Board liaison chat
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