Week ending 2026-06-21 (Week 25)
Lots of preparation for the upcoming 6.1 βeta, with the goal of stabilizing recent changes and ensuring overall readiness 
. I also spent time digging into Django’s async behavior, reviewing recent changes and following through on related optimizations and documentation updates 
. I also looked more closely at packaging and reproducibility, especially around artifact builds, to improve our consistency in the release process 
.
Triaged
- https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37170 - No-argument form of @sensitive_post_parameters() doesn’t cleanse request.POST (accepted)
- https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37174 - Template fragment cache key collision for vary_on values containing “:” (accepted)
- https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37176 - Action should be importable from django.contrib.admin. (accepted)
Reviewed
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/21456 - Fixed #37157 – Doc’d sphinx-autobuild for documentation auto-reloading.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/21469 - Fixed typo in Configuring email docs.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/21418 - Refs #28586 – Doc’d writing a custom fetch mode.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/21460 - Fixed #37163 – Optimized @user_passes_test async checking.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/21459 - Refs #36532 – Optimized CSP decorator async checking.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/21489 - Fixed #37159 – Implemented reproducible artifact builds.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/21448 - Fixed #37152 – Raised ValueError for Bcc in EmailMessage headers.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/21465 - Fixed #37165 – Updated Async Support topic doc.
- https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2665 - Handle corporate member SVG logos
Authored
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/21493 - Refs #37142 – Removed docs for django.utils.warnings.django_file_prefixes().
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/21506 - Refs #36560, CVE-2026-35193 – Recognized qualified cache-control directives.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/21511 - Fixed #37160 – Made admin views raise PermissionDenied consistently.
- https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2666 - Fixed #2647 – Reduced billboard banner height on small screens.
Security
- Triaged new reports.
- Polished patches after round of reviews for confirmed vulnerabilities.
Other/Misc
- Weekly Fellows meeting.
- Biweekly meeting with Fellows and Line Manager (Andrew Godwin).
- Code research and options analysis for https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37161 - Implement a system check for no default MAILERS configuration.
- Packaging tools research for https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37159 - Implement reproducible artifact builds.