Fellow Report - September 17, 2016

[Tim Graham]

Following the release of Python 3.6 beta this week, I've spent some time fixing test failures and warnings in Django. All work is tracked in https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/27025.

Triaged

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https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/27210 - smtp EmailBackend doesn't honor fail_silently=True when receiving a socket level connection error (accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/27215 - Document new location of jquery in v1.10 (invalid)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/27217 - makemigrations crashes with "'SpatialRefSysMixin' has no attribute '_meta'" on PostGIS (accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/27213 - PostgreSQL-9.4 ArrayField with null throws ProgrammingError but not ValidationError on Linux but not Windows (worksforme)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/27228 - prefetch_related with select_related takes a lot of query (invalid)

Authored

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https://github.com/django/django/pull/7245 - Isolated test_close() cache test.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/7254 - Refs #27025 -- Fixed "invalid escape sequence" warnings in Python 3.6.

https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9d0f4da4d531 - Improved a deprecation warning (as a result of debugging the warnings in Django’s test suite)

Reviewed/committed

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https://github.com/django/django/pull/6903 - Fixed #25187 -- Made request available in authentication backends.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/6158 - Fixed #23155: Added request argument to user_login_failed signal.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/7226 - Fixed #27203 -- Replaced assertQuerysetEqual(..., lambda o: o) with assertSequenceEqual().

https://github.com/django/django/pull/7143 - Fixed #26170 -- Made ModelAdmin views run transactions on the correct database.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/7236 - Fixed #27211 -- Made UpdateCacheMiddleware include caching headers for "304 Not Modified" responses.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/7238 - Fixed #15143 -- Doc'd how to set the language for the test client.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/7225 - Fixed #27198 -- Made MultiValueDict.getlist() return a new list to prevent mutation.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/7240 - Refs #27083 -- Updated conditional header comparison to match RFC 7232.

Reviews of core dev work

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https://github.com/django/django/pull/7225 - Fixed #26524 -- Fixed crash in admin change view when displaying many to many forward refs.