Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2026

[jacobtylerwalls]

Week ending 2026-08-02 (Week 31)

Highlights this week included clearing release blockers for 6.1 and making the parallel test runner more fault tolerant.

Triaged
#36888 (acreate method doesn't call asave) – Django	Someday/Maybe → wontfix
#37237 (Slow queryset building when using __in lookup with a large list of values against a related field) – Django	accepted

Reviewed
Fixed #37230 -- Fixed a crash for second-degree relations in ModelAdmin.list_display. by zubairhassan652 · Pull Request #21673 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37234 -- Fixed bulk_create() for late-saved related primary keys. by AKSHATSPAR · Pull Request #21677 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #22712 -- Restored django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.BaseFinder.find(). by ngnpope · Pull Request #21685 · django/django · GitHub
Allowed the full Python test matrix to run on GitHub Actions. by nessita · Pull Request #21692 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37235 -- Added compatibility for sqlparse 0.5.5. by sarahboyce · Pull Request #21699 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #27734 -- Made parallel test workers reuse database clones of exited workers. by ahmed5145 · Pull Request #21629 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37236 -- Allowed altering spatial indexes on RasterField. by mbaragiola · Pull Request #21709 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37224 -- Skipped questioner for changes on unmanaged model fields. by vishy0 · Pull Request #21690 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37069 -- Clarified that UniqueConstraint may create a unique index. by cliffordgama · Pull Request #21707 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36626 -- geodjango -- Preserved milliseconds when parsing GPX … by brunifrancesco · Pull Request #21310 · django/django · GitHub

Authored
#37235 (--debug-sql prints SQLParseError instead of falling back to unformatted SQL) – Django
Bumped minimum setuptools version to 83. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21691 · django/django · GitHub
#37236 (Spatial indexes cannot be added, removed, or altered on RasterField) – Django
#37238 (save() falls back to python default even when DatabaseDefault instance is assigned) – Django
Fixed #37238 -- Fixed unintentional fallback to python default for a db_default. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21693 · django/django · GitHub
#37239 (Saving related objects with generated primary keys doesn't update assigned relations) – Django
Fixed #37239 -- Cleared stale db_default when pk comes from related object expression. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21694 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed PR number lookup in coverage comment workflow. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21695 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #28586 -- Renamed RAISE fetch mode to FETCH_RAISE. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21696 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #28586 -- Doc'd fetch_mode attribute on ModelState. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21697 · django/django · GitHub
https://forums.oracle.com/ords/apexds/post/23ai-sdo-geometry-converts-1-element-multipolygon-to-polygo-3474
Updated asgiref dependency in free-threaded requirements. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21704 · django/django · GitHub
Removed advice to include ticket numbers in tests. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21706 · django/django · GitHub
Added free-threaded Python 3.14t to PostGIS CI workflow. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21710 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36770 -- Fixed incomplete mocking in SQLiteInMemoryTestDbs. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21711 · django/django · GitHub
#37242 (LayerMapping doesn't handle missing times, just missing date and datetime) – Django
Fixed #37242 -- Fixed reading null time fields in LayerMapping. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21712 · django/django · GitHub

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