Week ending 2025-11-09 (Week 45)
Another week with a strong focus on security work 
. Most of the effort went into preparing and issuing the November security release, along with some follow-up permission and access reviews. CNA tasks and training also continued in the background.
Triaged
- #36703 (Undocumented change of SetPasswordForm in django 5.1 release notes) – Django - Undocumented change of SetPasswordForm in django 5.1 release notes (invalid)
- #36706 (Select all but one in admin) – Django - Select all but one in admin (wontfix)
- #36705 (Repeated string concatenation is slow on some python implementations, in particular PyPy) – Django - Repeated string concatenation is slow on some python implementations, in particular PyPy (accepted)
- #36700 (ASGIHandler creates reference cycles that require a gc pass to free) – Django - ASGIHandler creates reference cycles that require a gc pass to free (accepted)
- https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36716 - Debugging can get stuck in an infinite loop if a setting is contained in itself (wontfix)
Reviewed
- Updated triage process diagram and contributing documentation. by ontowhee · Pull Request #19846 · django/django · GitHub - Updated triage process diagram and contributing documentation.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/20059 - Refs #36680 – Avoided manipulating PATH in AdminScriptTestCase.
Authored
- Followed up on Should we have a whole releases category in here?
- Created new Forum categories: Releases and Prereleases
- Created new tags: security, 6-0, 5-2, 5-1, 4-2
- Updates after security release with DSF as CNA. by nessita · Pull Request #23 · nessita/checklist-generator · GitHub - Updates after security release with DSF as CNA.
Other/Misc
- Assisted the Board in setting up thanks.dev for inspecting funds and planning money retrieval.
- Monthly meeting with the Steering Council.
- Read proposal and engaged in conversations related to An Annual Release Cycle for Django • Buttondown
- Biweekly meeting with Fellows and Board Liaison (Jeff Triplett).
- Fellows weekly sync.
- Including CNA training session for Jacob.
- Issued Django Security Release with two security fixes:
- Security prenotification membership request review.
- Engaged in Code of Conduct related activities.
- Complete application to get the “django” organization in PyPI.