Who contributed to Django on August 28, 2026?

5 developers shipped this update, including tobiasmcnulty, Andrew Selzer, viralpraxis, Tyler Russin, and Aslan Osmanov.

What were the notable Django updates?

Fixed #37255 -- Avoided relying on implicit SELECT ordering in tests, Fixed #37255 -- Avoided relying on implicit SELECT ordering in tests, and Configured Stripe sandbox and products.

Aug 28, 2026

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Django's core test suite declares war on undefined SQL row order

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:55 UTC on August 28, 2026 · About Django

5 people shipped this

Andrew Selzer @afs2015 2 cited

viralpraxis @viralpraxis 2 cited

tobiasmcnulty @tobiasmcnulty 1 cited

Tyler Russin @tylerrussin 1 cited

Aslan Osmanov @OsmnvAslan 1 cited

Django's own tests are about to stop pretending PostgreSQL returns rows in insertion order, and that changes how you should trust your queries.

A top-story PR [1] fixes ~70 tests that rely on implicit SELECT ordering, a SQL standard violation that only passes by coincidence on PostgreSQL. The fix, also in [2], means your ORM queries without an ORDER BY were never guaranteed stable, and the test suite is finally catching up. Meanwhile, djangoproject.com rotated ten-year-old Stripe test API keys [3], a security hygiene win that removes keys that were "theoretically usable" and hard to set up due to missing product IDs. The site also moved toward sponsorships with a banner link [5] and a header change from 'Donate' to 'Sponsor' [6], signaling a strategic pivot in funding messaging. On the dev side, path() and re_path() now report the invalid view type in their TypeError [4], a small debugging win, and accessibility docs got their broken references fixed [7]. The 7 commits and 6 PRs across these repos show steady cleanup, not revolution.

Action items

→ Review your Django querysets for implicit ordering assumptions and add explicit ORDER BY where row order matters django/django [immediate]
→ Rotate any Stripe test keys committed before 2014 and ensure sandbox keys have restricted permissions django/djangoproject.com [immediate]
→ Watch the djangoproject.com sponsorship banner rollout for impact on donation conversion django/djangoproject.com [monitor]

References

[1] Fixed #37255 -- Avoided relying on implicit SELECT ordering in tests. ↗ django/django
[2] Fixed #37255 -- Avoided relying on implicit SELECT ordering in tests. django/django
[3] Configured Stripe sandbox and products. ↗ django/djangoproject.com
[4] Fixed #37296 -- Included the invalid view type in path()/re_path() error. django/django
[5] :handshake: Adds sponsor link to banner template (#2800) django/djangoproject.com
[6] Change 'Donate' link to 'Sponsor' in header ↗ django/djangoproject.com
[7] Fixed #37301 -- Fixed broken references in accessibility documentation. django/django