Django: A Quiet Fix to Function Wrapping
Today's merges were small but meaningful: one fixes a subtle bug where decorating a view multiple times could silently corrupt the original function, and the other cleans up a documentation typo in the bulk update reference. Both are low-risk, high-clarity fixes.
Duration: PT2M21S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Django.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Django
- Published: 2026-07-13T13:03:25Z
- Audio duration: PT2M21S
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Good day, and welcome to Django, your developer briefing for July 13th, 2026.
Today's headline is a correctness fix under the hood of Django's transaction handling. In PR 21254, Sina Chaichi Maleki fixed ticket 29303, addressing a bug in the non atomic requests decorator. Previously, if you applied this decorator to the same view function more than once, it would mutate an attribute on the…
The second change is smaller in scope but still worth flagging for anyone writing bulk update queries. PR 21593, from Tom Most, fixes a typo in the querysets documentation. The bulk update code example referenced a nonexistent field, "Entry dot ids," when it should have read "Entry dot id." It's a small thing, but…
No major architectural shift here today. These are the kind of fixes that make Django more predictable and its docs more trustworthy, rather than headline features.
What's next: if you're using non atomic requests as a decorator in layered view logic, this fix removes a class of subtle bugs you may not have even known you had. And if you've been copying that bulk update example from the docs, you'll now get a version that actually runs as written.
That's your briefing for today. Back…
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