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CHANNELS_REDIS DROPS PYTHON 3.9, TIGHTENS CI

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Nikolas Nyby
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Django's Redis adapter is cutting legacy Python support and fixing its CI pipeline in the same breath.

Channels_redis is dropping Python 3.9 support [1], treating it as sufficiently old to remove from the test matrix. Nikolas is simultaneously landing a lint check fix in the CI workflow [2], cleaning up the automation layer while the dependency floor moves up. This is a clean sweep: the version floor rises, the tooling stabilizes, and there's no breaking news downstream. The ASV benchmark harness picked up new ubuntu-latest results overnight [3], a routine data point with no signal.

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What shipped in Django on August 17, 2026?
Django's Redis adapter is cutting legacy Python support and fixing its CI pipeline in the same breath. In total, 3 commits and 2 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Django on August 17, 2026?
1 developer shipped this update, including Nikolas Nyby.
What were the notable Django updates?
Remove Python 3.9 support, github actions: Fix lint check, and Results for ubuntu-latest added [skip ci].
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$ log @django --recent

Ubuntu-latest results land in the Django benchmark suite 1 shipped cached_property deprecation lands, asgiref 3.13.0 ships 13 shipped ThreadSensitiveContext gains nesting, Q.check() escapes logged DB errors 22 shipped Windows CI gets gettext, djangosnippets drops a dead dependency 8 shipped

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Alignment & Post-training GSM8K scoring parses answers as exact decimals AI Red Teaming PyRIT closes a judge-spoofing hole, promptfoo accepts Langfuse v6

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Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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