Week ending 2025-09-21 (Week 38)
Django 6.0 Feature Freeze is in effect and the Django 6.0 alpha is out!
Triaged
- https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36608 - Clarify dumpdata behavior and docs for custom serializers with internal_use_only flag (re-triaged as accepted for docs changes)
- https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36602 - Enhance showmigrations command with structured data collection and display separation (wontfix)
- See https://github.com/django/new-features/issues/75 for the new feature request.
Reviewed
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/19847 - Fixed #36589 – Handled full PartialTemplate path in assertTemplateUsed/NotUsed.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/18627 - Fixed #35859 – Implement Tasks interface as per DEP 14
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/19834 - Bootstrapped Django 6.1.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/19876 - Refs #35859 – Removed deferral of task enqueuing until transaction commit.
- https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2208 - Prevent EOL date from being set on alpha1 releases
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/19879 - Added cleanup of cache clearing to DjangoFilePrefixesTests.setUp().
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/19837 - Fixed #36601 – Fixed a color contrast issue in admin FilteredSelectMultiple widget chosen label.
Authored
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/19851 - Refs #35667 – Updated contributing guide to use django file prefixes on deprecations.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/19867 - Fixed #36520 – Reverted “Fixed #35440 – Simplified parse_header_parameters by leveraging stdlid’s Message.”
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/19872 - Pre-edits for 6.0a1.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/19877 - [5.2.x] Updated translations from Transifex.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/19878 - [6.0.x] Updated source translation catalogs.
- https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2209 - Updated docs-related model fixtures for 6.0 release.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/19881 - Clarified feature freeze and alpha release steps in docs/internals/howto-release-django.txt.