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Django fixes changelist search crashes and boosts djangoproject.com search speed

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Jacob Walls yassinbahri adamchainz Mariano Baragiola sarahboyce
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Jacob Walls @jacobtylerwalls 3 cited yassinbahri @yassinbahri 2 cited adamchainz @adamchainz 1 cited Mariano Baragiola @mbaragiola 1 cited sarahboyce @sarahboyce 1 cited

Django fixed a changelist search crash and over-matching bug, while djangoproject.com cut search page load time by 600ms.

Django fixed a changelist search crash and over-matching bug in `__exact` `search_fields` for non-text fields [1]. Fields with choices now properly reject invalid terms instead of letting them crash the changelist with an ORM error. Two related fixes restore database routing hints for custom prefetch querysets on forward `ForeignKey` and reverse `OneToOneField` paths [2] [3], which had regressed in Django 6.1 and could cause routers to pick the wrong database. Also, `RelatedIn` lookup preparation got a performance improvement [4]. On djangoproject.com, search performance improved significantly: the expensive headline annotations were moved after the paginator's limit is applied, reducing page load time from ~850ms to ~250ms for large result sets like "Model" [5] [6]. A deterministic sort was also added for search results [7]. The Teams page title was updated to an h1 tag and now includes "Working Groups" [8].

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  1. [1] Fixed #37263 -- Fixed changelist __exact search crashes and over-matching. ↗ django/django
  2. [2] Fixed #37300 -- Fixed database routing for custom forward prefetch querysets. ↗ django/django
  3. [3] Fixed #37300 -- Preserved parent instance hints on custom Prefetch querysets. ↗ django/django
  4. [4] Fixed #37237 -- Improved RelatedIn lookup preparation performance. ↗ django/django
  5. [5] Improve search performance ↗ django/djangoproject.com
  6. [6] Avoid expensive search headline calculations ↗ django/djangoproject.com
  7. [7] Use a deterministic sort for search results ↗ django/djangoproject.com
  8. [8] Updated Teams page title to h1 tag and include "Working Groups". ↗ django/djangoproject.com

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

the week in review Django ORM fix week and calendar versioning prep 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 September 1, 2026?
Django fixed a changelist search crash and over-matching bug, while djangoproject.com cut search page load time by 600ms. In total, 8 commits and 6 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Django on September 1, 2026?
5 developers shipped this update, including Jacob Walls, adamchainz, yassinbahri, Mariano Baragiola, and sarahboyce.
What were the notable Django updates?
Fixed #37263 -- Fixed changelist __exact search crashes and over-matching, Fixed #37300 -- Fixed database routing for custom forward prefetch querysets, and Fixed #37300 -- Preserved parent instance hints on custom Prefetch querysets.
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Django bumps minimum oracledb to 4.0.2 4 shipped Docs search fragments fixed, Benevity link restored 9 shipped Django prepares for calendar versioning with new version tuple support 21 shipped Django deprecation warnings switch to calendar-based names 7 shipped

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Meta React Native adds Stable API guards to renderer attributed string FastAPI & Pydantic Pydantic fixes Mypy plugin crash, tightens datetime constraints

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