Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2026

Django Internals
6

Week ending 2026-02-08 (Week 06)

Triaged
#36898 (Document `Session.is_empty`) – Django accepted
#36900 (startproject and startapp do not sanitize filename from Content-Disposition header) – Django accepted
#14087 (django.core.management.get_commands only sees commands in the last package of a namespace package) – Django fixed
#18603 (Adding support for PEP 302 importers) – Django needsinfo
#36903 (inspect.signature should use FORWARDREF annotation_format for python 3.14+) – Django accepted
#36905 (Remove safe parameter from JsonResponse) – Django accepted
#36904 (Form Field label - improve documentation to explain how to omit labels) – Django accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36896 needsinfo
Reviewed
Fixed #36795 -- Enforced quoting of all database object names. by charettes · Pull Request #20587 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36879 -- Identified Django client in Redis client metadata. by ar3ph · Pull Request #20580 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36893 -- Serialized elidable kwarg for RunSQL and RunPython operations. by SnippyCodes · Pull Request #20614 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36898 -- Documented SessionBase.is_empty(). by jafarkhan83 · Pull Request #20630 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20518
Fixed selenium tests in Firefox. by pbratkowski · Pull Request #17562 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #27489 -- Renamed permissions upon model renaming in migrations. by artirix1927 · Pull Request #20539 · django/django · GitHub
Added DatabaseFeatures.supports_inspectdb. by timgraham · Pull Request #20455 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #33579 -- Added extra tests for NotUpdated exception. by ngnpope · Pull Request #20636 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36644 -- Enabled empty order_by() to avoid pk ordering by first()/last(). by nileshpahari · Pull Request #20458 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #34352 -- Unified terms in Signals docs. by Hossamfc9 · Pull Request #20634 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #27574 -- Added support for ST_Distance_Sphere function on MySQL. by Skyiesac · Pull Request #20581 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #26739 -- Made reverse RemoveField handle non-nullable columns. by priyapahwa · Pull Request #20482 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36903 -- Inspect signature with deferred annotations by 93578237 · Pull Request #20646 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #36036 -- Added m dimension to GEOSCoordSeq. by smithdc1 · Pull Request #20338 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36509 -- Missing aria label on input fields in tables. by jafarkhan83 · Pull Request #20596 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36246 -- Caught `GDALException` in `BaseGeometryWidget.deserialize`. by JaeHyuckSa · Pull Request #19256 · django/django · GitHub
Docs: clarify backend operators for text lookups by mohitvkumar-dev · Pull Request #20649 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
Reenable eslint pre-commit hook by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #68 · django/django-docker-box · GitHub
[checklists] Advise to mention EOL dates by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #2497 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub
Refs #36620 -- Guarded coverage tests workflow behind a label. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20642 · django/django · GitHub
#36901 (Centralize mitigations against timing attacks targeting user enumeration) – Django
#36906 (Oracle guard for coalescing text & varchar doesn't fathom JSONField) – Django
Caught further expected failures. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #6 · django/django-fuzzers · GitHub
Discussed
#36441 (Add lazy loading support for GDAL library in `django.contrib.gis.gdal`) – Django
#33586 (Applying RunPython backward results in ValueError when involved models are referenced through multiple foreign keys) – Django
Misc
Engaged in security reports
Fellows sync
Issued security releases
Monthly steering council meeting
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