Triaged
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https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28178 - Allow applications that make optional use of contrib.gis to better silence the lack of a GDAL install (accepted)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28179 - Unittest of a form with Multiselect not filling correctly (invalid)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28170 - File upload to a CIFS mount fails with Permissions Denied (accepted)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28183 - objects.create(**dictionary, key=value) regression in 1.11 (invalid)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28186 - Formset validate_min bug for empty_forms_count (duplicate)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28185 - ModelAdmin.lookup_allowed() fails to consider dynamic list_filter (duplicate)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28191 - 'or' is translated in "Invalid block tag" exception message (duplicate)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28192- Prevent passing positional arguments to form fields (accepted)
Authored
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https://github.com/django/django/pull/8473 - Fixed #28178 -- Changed contrib.gis to raise ImproperlyConfigured if gdal isn't installed.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/8474 - Fixed #28181 -- Added detection for GDAL 2.1 and 2.0.
Reviewed/committed
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https://github.com/django/django/pull/8423 - Refs #27795 -- Kept format setting type in Javascript and JSON i18n views.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/8479 - Refs #27795 -- Replaced force_text() with str() in contrib.messages
https://github.com/django/django/pull/8442 - Fixed #28142 -- Fixed is_safe_url() crash on an invalid IPv6 URL.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/8410 - Fixed #28129 -- Allowed custom template tags to use keyword-only arguments.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/8489 - Fixed #28188 -- Fixed crash when pickling model fields.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/8466 - Fixed #28148 -- Doc'd ImageField name validation concerns with the test client.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/8331 - Improved test coverage for createsuperuser command.