Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2026

[jacobtylerwalls]

Week ending 2026-08-23 (Week 34)

Early report before heading to DjangoCon US.

Triaged
#37259 (Model.from_db() overrides without fetch_mode argument crash with TypeError on any query) – Django	needsinfo → accepted
#37290 (Update UpdateCacheMiddleware to mark a response as cached) – Django	accepted
#37295 (Update LiveServerTestCase docs to use Playwright instead of Selenium) – Django	accepted

Reviewed
Refs #5929 -- Added a CompositeField expression to support multi-column subqueries. by p-r-a-v-i-n · Pull Request #21636 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37258, Refs #36644 -- Documented error when default ordering fields are missing in combined queries. by sarahboyce · Pull Request #21798 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37259 -- Restored support for old-signature Model.from_db() overrides. by adamchainz · Pull Request #21749 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #37260 -- Added missing skip condition to test_fk_alter_on_delete_db_level. by timgraham · Pull Request #21799 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37263 -- Fixed changelist __exact search crashes and over-matching. by adamchainz · Pull Request #21754 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36945 -- Made .values() and .order_by() resolve FilteredRelation aliases correctly. by annalauraw · Pull Request #21803 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37255 -- Avoided relying on implicit SELECT ordering in tests. by viralpraxis · Pull Request #21745 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37237 -- Improved RelatedIn lookup preparation performance. by mbaragiola · Pull Request #21714 · django/django · GitHub
Added RelatedIn lookup benchmark for #37237. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #100 · django/django-asv · GitHub

Authored
#37282 (ModelForm shouldn't fallback to forms.CharField for RasterField) – Django
#37289 (GDALRaster.__del__() shouldn't delete rasters opened in read-only mode) – Django
Skipped tests involving 1-element GeometryCollections on Oracle 23.9. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21802 · django/django · GitHub
#37291 (Passing F("pk") to a tuple lookup can hang) – Django
Removed more versionadded/versionchanged directives for 6.1. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21807 · django/django · GitHub
De-emphasized typo fixes in contributing docs. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21809 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #37258, #36644 -- Fixed release note for clearing default ordering after combination. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21813 · django/django · GitHub

Discussed
#37284 (Bump minimum sqlparse version from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0 (security fixes)) – Django
https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/stop-increasing-default-pbkdf2-iteration-count
Should we stop recommending pylibmc? - #7 by jacobtylerwalls

Misc
Fellows sync
Engaged in security reports
1-1 with GSoC mentee (Pravin)