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DJANGOPROJECT.COM SHORES UP CI TOOLING WITH ACTION UPGRADES AND PRE-COMMIT AUTOMATION

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Django's website infrastructure tightened its release pipeline overnight with setup-python v7 and a new pre-commit ecosystem strategy.

The djangoproject.com repo landed two critical GitHub Actions bumps: setup-python moved to v7 with an ESM migration and dependency refresh [1], while actions/checkout jumped to 7.0.1 to skip unsafe PR checks on default inputs [2]. Alongside those patches, the team enabled pre-commit ecosystem tracking in dependabot [3], a move that lets the tool auto-update similar dependencies in future and supersedes earlier manual hook work [4]. The Django benchmarking suite added fresh ubuntu-latest results to its performance baseline [5].

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Quick answers

What shipped in Django on August 25, 2026?
Django's website infrastructure tightened its release pipeline overnight with setup-python v7 and a new pre-commit ecosystem strategy. In total, 3 commits and 3 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Django on August 25, 2026?
2 developers shipped this update, including dependabot and ulgens.
What were the notable Django updates?
Bump actions/setup-python from 6 to 7, Bump actions/checkout from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1, and Enable "pre-commit" ecosystem in dependabot.
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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

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

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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