Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2026

Django Internals
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Week ending 2026-06-28 (Week 26)

Early report before heading out for a week of holiday.

Triaged
#37180 (Fix assertions in SelectFilter height selenium tests.) – Django accepted
#37184 (PBKDF2PasswordHasher enforces UTF-8 decodable requirement on passwords provided as bytes) – Django accepted
#37189 (Dutch translation for MinimumLengthValidator error message is incorrect) – Django invalid
#37187 (Extraneous and confusing ModelAdmin select_related deprecation warnings) – Django accepted
#37188 (compilemessages should ignore common environment and dependency directories by default) – Django needsnewfeatureprocess
#37191 (FileBasedCache.touch() raises ValueError: I/O operation on closed file when the key is already expired) – Django accepted
#37192 (Clarify `TaskResult.last_attempted_at`) – Django wontfix
Reviewed
Refs #36983 -- Skipped GC specific tests when GIL disabled. by carltongibson · Pull Request #21521 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #5929 -- Added a CompositeField expression to support multi-column subqueries. by p-r-a-v-i-n · Pull Request #21496 · django/django · GitHub
Relaxed StringAgg assertions to account for the lack of order_by. by timgraham · Pull Request #21536 · django/django · GitHub
Update README.rst by kehach07 · Pull Request #302 · django/code.djangoproject.com · GitHub
Fixed #37184 -- Allowed non-UTF-8 bytes passwords in the password hashers. by vishy0 · Pull Request #21541 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed a pair of issues in the do_django_release.py script. by nessita · Pull Request #21543 · django/django · GitHub
Removed hardcoded pks in many tests. by timgraham · Pull Request #21364 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36593, #37187 -- Avoided spurious select_related() warning in ModelAdmin. by medmunds · Pull Request #21551 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37191 -- Prevented ValueError in FileBasedCache.touch() for expired keys by bouaik9 · Pull Request #21558 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37187, #37190 -- Pointed ModelAdmin warnings to the deprecated code. by medmunds · Pull Request #21553 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
Fixed #37183 -- Prevented writing unserializable attributes in syndication entries. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21531 · django/django · GitHub
#37183 (Prevent writing control characters into XML attributes in syndication feeds) – Django
Refs #35870 -- Mentioned transitional setting in BLANK_CHOICE_DASH release note. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21539 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36984 -- Preserved translator comment on separator string. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21540 · django/django · GitHub
Updated howto-release-django.txt with reminder to bump asgiref. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21542 · django/django · GitHub
#37190 (Deprecation warning for action_location parameter should mention subclass and/or point to user code) – Django
Refs #37188 -- Used a more realistic --ignore in compilemessages example. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21550 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37184 -- Allowed non-UTF-8 bytes passwords in the PBKDF2 and MD5 password hashers. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21552 · django/django · GitHub
Discussed
Discussed, drafted inquires about CVSS metric definitions
Misc
Fellows sync
Engaged in security reports
1-1 with GSoC mentee (Pravin)
Released 6.1 beta
Meeting with Oracle re: Test Pilot program
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