# Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2026

**URL:** <https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-fellow-report-jacob-2026/43851>\
**Category:** Django Internals\
**Created:** [January 5, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-fellow-report-jacob-2026/43851 "2026-01-05T15:27:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-fellow-report-jacob-2026/43851/33 "2026-08-03T14:51:53Z")

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# **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](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36888) | Someday/Maybe → wontfix |
| [#37237 (Slow queryset building when using \_\_in lookup with a large list of values against a related field) – Django](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37237) | accepted |

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

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

| Misc | |
| --- | --- |
| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| Fellows line manager (Andrew Godwin) chat | |

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