Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2026

[jacobtylerwalls]

Hello from Day 1 of the sprints at Django on the Med in Pescara! Here’s the report for a partial week after returning from the Adirondacks .

Week ending 2026-09-20 (Week 38)

Triaged
#36833 (HTTP headers are incorrectly split on commas inside quoted parameter values) – Django	needsinfo → accepted
#35440 (Update parse_header_parameters to leverage the parsing logic from (stdlib) email Message.) – Django	wontfix → accepted
#37333 (Include language de_ch in language info) – Django	accepted → invalid
#37216 (Add Oracle step to geodjango CI workflow) – Django	Someday/Maybe → invalid
#37353 (QuerySet.values("pk").distinct().order_by() on a composite primary key silently truncates the primary key) – Django	accepted
#37354 (Ordering and grouping by select position is off by one past a composite primary key in values()) – Django	accepted
#37355 (Filtering on a window expression drops duplicated values() columns from the result) – Django	accepted
#37356 (Filtering on a window expression crashes or truncates rows when a composite primary key is selected) – Django	accepted
#37357 (Admin date_hierarchy raises an unhandled exception (500) on an out-of-range year) – Django	accepted

Reviewed
Fixed #37348 -- Reverted "Fixed #36806 -- Added system check for null kwarg in GeneratedField." by nessita · Pull Request #21983 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37327 -- Improved IncorrectLookupParameters admin error message. by saikat709 · Pull Request #21899 · django/django · GitHub
Added unit test for LogoThumbnailMixin.logo_is_svg. by saikat709 · Pull Request #2852 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub
Generate template from GitHub action workflow. by loiclefevre · Pull Request #2 · django-sandbox/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/21501
Fixed #37339 -- Allowed ipaddress objects in GenericIPAddressField. by UnknownPlatypus · Pull Request #21956 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37357 -- Handled out-of-range year in admin date_hierarchy. by philipsorensen · Pull Request #21995 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37114 -- Dropped support for PostgreSQL 15 and PostGIS 3.2. by felixxm · Pull Request #21971 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37356 -- Raised NotImplementedError on window filtering when a composite pk is selected. by davegaeddert · Pull Request #21999 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #37321 -- Documented BaseSpatialField.srid=-1 behavior. by yassinbahri · Pull Request #21889 · django/django · GitHub

Authored
#37350 (distinct(*fields) does not fathom aliases containing the lookup separator: "__") – Django
Restored timeout in GeoDjango CI workflow. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21985 · django/django · GitHub
#37351 (Altering the null attribute of a GeneratedField should raise when making migrations) – Django
#37352 (ServerFormatter changed incompatibly in Django 2.1) – Django
Modeled a safer mechanism for installing a git hook for backports. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21986 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36947 -- Added missing max_length in GeneratedField test for Oracle. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21989 · django/django · GitHub
#37358 (Drop support for GDAL 3.3 and 3.4) – Django
#37361 (Permission renames do not apply to a chain of RenameModel operations) – Django
Reverted "Refs #36009 -- Adjusted gis_tests.geoapp.tests.GeoLookupTest.test_relate_lookup for bug in PostGIS." by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #22003 · django/django · GitHub
Corrected output of Prefetch.to_attr example. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #22004 · django/django · GitHub
Maintenance branch for 3.5.x? · Issue #153 · conda-forge/postgis-feedstock · GitHub
Fixed #37358 -- Dropped support for GDAL 3.3 and 3.4. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #22005 · django/django · GitHub

Discussed
#25902 (Add test for system check for project-wide database table name conflicts) – Django
https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/upcoming-newcomer-sprints
https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/where-to-restate-minor-breaking-changes-in-security-releases

Misc
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