$ ls django/reviews/ # the step-back reads
Django in review
One review per week (and month): what shipped, what broke, what to act on.
Sep 14–20, 2026 weekly [plan] 8 stories
Django drops PostgreSQL 15 and PostGIS 3.2
EmailValidator gains per-part validation, and a reverted GeneratedField system check lands with a 6.1.2 release note.
Sep 7–13, 2026 weekly [plan] 8 stories
Django bumps minimum oracledb to 4.0.2
The week's one compatibility change arrives alongside GEOS version shifts and two new security team members.
Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026 weekly [plan]
Django ORM fix week and calendar versioning prep
Multiple query regressions fixed and deprecations shift to calendar-based names as Django readies for versioning.
Aug 24–30, 2026 weekly
Django test suite locks down row order, benchmark CI expands to Ubuntu
Django's core test suite stopped relying on implicit SELECT ordering, and its benchmark CI now reports Ubuntu results.
Aug 1–31, 2026 monthly
Django 6.1, four CVEs, and a parallel-test fix that kills flaky runs
August closed with Django 6.1 shipping, a security team charter and $200K fundraising tier, and a parallel-test worker change that reuses...
Keep up with Django in about 3 minutes: what actually shipped — the commits, pull requests, releases, and security advisories that matter.
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