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PARALLEL TEST WORKERS NOW REUSE DATABASE CLONES, KILLING FLAKY TEST RUNS

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Jacob Walls ahmed5145 brunifrancesco mbaragiola claudep
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Django fixed a critical race condition where respawned test workers would crash trying to connect to non-existent database clones, causing entire parallel test suites to abort.

ParallelTestSuite assigned worker IDs from a monotonically increasing counter, so when multiprocessing.Pool respawned a crashed worker, the replacement incremented past N and tried to connect to a database clone that never existed, fataling the entire run [1]. The fix reuses the database clones from exited workers instead of creating new ones, a pattern developers using parallel testing have been fighting since issue #27734 was opened. This lands alongside cleanup work removing outdated advice to include ticket numbers directly in test code [2]. GeoDjango also landed millisecond precision for GPX timestamp parsing [3] and fixed spatial index alteration on RasterField [4], while core fixes a subtle bug where DatabaseDefault was unexpectedly falling back to Python defaults on multi-table inheritance primary keys [5]. Translation updates rolled across django-localflavor [6].

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  1. [1] Fixed #27734 -- Made parallel test workers reuse database clones of exited workers. ↗ django/django
  2. [2] Removed advice to include ticket numbers in tests. ↗ django/django
  3. [3] Fixed #36626 -- geodjango -- Preserved milliseconds when parsing GPX … ↗ django/django
  4. [4] Fixed #37236 -- Allowed altering spatial indexes on RasterField. ↗ django/django
  5. [5] Fixed #37238 -- Fixed unintentional fallback to python default for a db_default. ↗ django/django
  6. [6] Updated translations from Transifex ↗ django/django-localflavor

$ ls django/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review Django drops PostgreSQL 15 and PostGIS 3.2 the month in review Django 6.1, four CVEs, and a parallel-test fix that kills flaky runs
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Quick answers

What shipped in Django on August 1, 2026?
Django fixed a critical race condition where respawned test workers would crash trying to connect to non-existent database clones, causing entire parallel test suites to abort. In total, 9 commits and 8 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Django on August 1, 2026?
5 developers shipped this update, including ahmed5145, Jacob Walls, brunifrancesco, mbaragiola, and claudep.
What were the notable Django updates?
Fixed #27734 -- Made parallel test workers reuse database clones of exited workers, Removed advice to include ticket numbers in tests, and Fixed #36626 -- geodjango -- Preserved milliseconds when parsing GPX ….
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