In addition to these tasks, rolled the 1.8.1 and 1.7.8 bug fix releases yesterday.
Report for week ending May 1, 2015:
Triaged
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https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24708 - forms.GenericIPAddressField.to_python behaves differently to other CharField subclasses. (accepted)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24710 - Replace BaseForm.errors property with get_errors method (won’t fix)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24706 - ModelForm._post_clean assumes that setting attributes onto an instance cannot raise ValidationError (accepted)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24709 - ArrayField doesn't support .update() and F() objects (accepted)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24711 - Allow flush management command to drop tables and re-run migrations (accepted)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24720 - using middleware.common to append slashes causes extra overhead to all requests that do not end in a slash (accepted)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24725 - "ProgrammingError: relation does not exist" when renaming many-to-many target model (accepted)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24727 - ClearableFileInput masks useful exceptions in is_initial() (accepted)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24726 - ArrayField with IntegerRangeField as base field generates invalid SQL on Insert operations (accepted)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24718 - Inconsistent Behavior by Admin when Creating vs Deleting Objects (won’t fix)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24728 - feedgenerator classes still use "mime_type" instead of "content_type" (accepted)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24731 - ManyToMany model clean validation of related fields (needsinfo)
Authored
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https://github.com/django/django/commit/3b133ffb8bdf1e0e4c3f2c3af8a62376da643350 - Fixed template_tests failure on Windows.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4592 - Fixed #24676 -- Fixed help text positioning in ``contrib.admin`` filter_* widgets.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4578 - Fixed #24724 -- Fixed GIS initialization crash on Windows.
Reviewed/committed
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https://github.com/django/django/pull/4570 - Fixed #24714 -- Used more specific assertions than assertEqual in tests.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4565 - Fixed #13008 -- Added more Cache-Control headers to never_cache() decorator.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4576 - Fixed #24717 -- Fixed model_regress test failure on RHEL6 SCL
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4580 - Added translation.override() context manager to docs.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4582 - Fixed #24729 -- Removed test db flush when using --keepdb.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4532 - Fixed #23271 -- Fixed makemessages crash/test failure for some locales.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4559 - Fixed #23387 -- Keep "Save as new" button after validation errors
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4550 - Fixed #24696 -- Made CSRF_COOKIE computation lazy.
Reviews of core dev work
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https://github.com/django/django/pull/4556 - Fixed #24119, #24120 -- Formalized debug integration for template backends
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4584 - Fixed #24725 -- Allowed renaming of target models in ManyToMany relations