Week ending 2026-03-08 (Week 10)
This week had as the main attraction 
the security releases I issued on Tuesday (6.0.3, 5.2.12, and 4.2.29) 
, which required the usual coordination, strong focus, and intense follow-up. Beyond that, a significant part of the week was spent navigating the continuing wave of LLM-generated pull requests 
, which adds a fair amount of noise to the review queue. After prioritizing the security work, I tried to reclaim some joy 
in the day-to-day Fellow work by digging through long-snoozed notification emails and picking off a number of lingering tickets and PRs that had been waiting for attention.
Triaged
- #36945 (.values() and .order_by() miss FilteredRelation when resolving aliases shadowing relationship traversals) – Django - .values() and .order_by() miss FilteredRelation when resolving aliases shadowing relationship traversals (accepted)
- #36961 (django_file_prefixes() raises TypeError if Django is imported by namespace) – Django - django_file_prefixes() raises TypeError if Django is imported by namespace (accepted)
- #36949 (Missing label on each <select> in a fieldset) – Django - Missing label on each
<select>in a fieldset (accepted) - #36971 (Provide pathways to other contributions in first PR comment) – Django - Provide pathways to other contributions in first PR comment (accepted)
Reviewed
- Fixed #36971 -- Added mentions of other contribution pathways to PR comment. by tim-schilling · Pull Request #20839 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #36971 – Added mentions of other contribution pathways to PR comment.
- Extended automatic checks and docs for proper commit message format. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20840 · django/django · GitHub - Checked commit messages for trailing periods.
- I ended up overtaking this to grow our docs about proper commit message style. Sorry Jacob!
- I ended up overtaking this to grow our docs about proper commit message style. Sorry Jacob!
- Refs #28877 -- Added special ordinal context when humanizing value 1. by JulienPalard · Pull Request #20028 · django/django · GitHub - Refs #28877 – Added special ordinal context when humanizing value 1.
- Run tests in postgis container by smithdc1 · Pull Request #20746 · django/django · GitHub - Run tests in postgis container
- Fixed #36964 -- Clarified persistent connection behavior with the development server by shubh-gitpush · Pull Request #20827 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #36964 – Clarified persistent connection behavior with the development server
- Fixed #36964 -- Clarified persistent connections support in developme… by RealOrangeKun · Pull Request #20825 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #36964 – Clarified persistent connections support in developme…
- Fixed #36964 -- Clarified development server behavior with persistent database connections. by mankameshwarmishra5-cmd · Pull Request #20833 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #36964 – Clarified development server behavior with persistent database connections.
- Fixed #35758 -- Used on_delete keyword argument in ForeignKey examples in docs by Divya07-22 · Pull Request #20835 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #35758 – Used on_delete keyword argument in ForeignKey examples in docs
- Corrected Basque local name. by Chadys · Pull Request #20708 · django/django · GitHub - Corrected local name for Basque in django/conf/locale/init.py.
- Fixed #30448 -- Skipped autocommit checks for connections in atomic blocks by Samriddha9619 · Pull Request #20830 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #30448 – Skipped autocommit checks for connections in atomic blocks
- Clarify explanation of get_response wrapper in middleware documentation by kishanngowda · Pull Request #20800 · django/django · GitHub - Clarify explanation of get_response wrapper in middleware documentation
- Fixed #25703 -- Added topic documentation for expressions. by ANUSHREE-123-S · Pull Request #20814 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #25703 – Added topic documentation for expressions.
- Fixed #14035 -- Prevented HttpRequest.POST data loss on encoding change for multipart requests by saishmungase · Pull Request #20775 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #14035 – Prevented HttpRequest.POST data loss on encoding change for multipart requests
- Docs for #36049 Upper Filter Behavior. by udaysathepatil · Pull Request #20820 · django/django · GitHub - Docs for #36049 Upper Filter Behavior.
- Refs #35859 -- Mentioned django-tasks backport on tasks topic. by RealOrangeOne · Pull Request #20738 · django/django · GitHub - Refs #35859 – Mentioned django-tasks backport on tasks topic.
- Fixed #36943 -- Preserved original URLconf exception in autoreloader. by varunkasyap · Pull Request #20821 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #36943 – Preserved original URLconf exception in autoreloader.
- [5.2.x] Refs #36944 -- Added missing versionchanged annotation for MAX_LENGTH_HTML change. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20767 · django/django · GitHub - [5.2.x] Refs #36944 – Added missing versionchanged annotation for MAX_LENGTH_HTML change.
- Fixed #36961 -- Fixed TypeError in deprecation warnings if Django is imported by namespace. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20789 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #36961 – Fixed TypeError in deprecation warnings if Django is imported by namespace.
- Added Operations team charter. by tim-schilling · Pull Request #73 · django/dsf-working-groups · GitHub - Added Operations team charter.
Authored
- [5.2.x] Pinned black == 25.12.0 for black docs checks and ensured they pass. by nessita · Pull Request #20815 · django/django · GitHub - [5.2.x] Pinned black == 25.12.0 for black docs checks and ensured they pass.
- [6.0.x] Ensured spelling checks pass OK. by nessita · Pull Request #20816 · django/django · GitHub - [6.0.x] Ensured spelling checks pass OK.
- Fixed #36923 -- Added tests for non-hierarchical URI schemes in URLField.to_python(). by nessita · Pull Request #20823 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #36923 – Added tests for non-hierarchical URI schemes in URLField.to_python().
- Fixed #36679 -- Fixed Basque date formats to use parenthetical declension suffixes. by nessita · Pull Request #20837 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #36679 – Fixed Basque date formats to use parenthetical declension suffixes.
- Provided script for preparing commit messages and updated relevant docs (two commits). by nessita · Pull Request #20854 · django/django · GitHub - Provided script for preparing commit messages and updated relevant docs (two commits).
- Aligned docs checks between GitHub Actions and local development. by nessita · Pull Request #20785 · django/django · GitHub - Aligned docs checks between GitHub Actions and local development.#20785
Security
- Took a deep dive on caches, cache middleware, caching headers, and
Varyheaders to triage a report.
Other/Misc
- Monthly Steering Council meeting.
- Weekly Fellows meeting.
- Security Release issued:
- Django security releases issued: 6.0.3, 5.2.12, and 4.2.29
- Django security releases issued: 6.0.3, 5.2.12, and 4.2.29 | Weblog | Django
- Reached out to CPython about the issue in
makedirsrelated to directory permissions (Restore os.makedirs ability to apply mode to all directories created · Issue #86533 · python/cpython · GitHub)
- Spent time trying to disable copilot reviews in the Django repo.
- This may become a PR soon: Comparing django:main...nessita:terminator-a-new-hope · django/django · GitHub
- Engaged in the forum for a couple of topics I deeply care about: