Django: Admin Ordering Bug Gets a Duplicate Fix, Docs Get a Cleanup
Two separate pull requests from the same author both fix a ticket about admin list-display ordering, while a trio of documentation fixes and the upcoming six-point-one release prep round out a quiet but tidy day in the codebase.
Duration: PT2M16S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Django.
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- Show: Django
- Published: 2026-07-03T14:14:32Z
- Audio duration: PT2M16S
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Good morning, it's July 3rd, 2026, and this is Django.
The top story today is a small but instructive mix-up: the same contributor, apoorvdarshan, opened two separate pull requests, numbers 21574 and 21575, both fixing the exact same issue - ticket 26372. The bug involves the admin's change list ordering. When a list-display method shadows a reverse relation, Django's…
Second theme: documentation hygiene. Sarah Boyce's PR 21234, backed by commits 318a316 and c8b1f22, cleaned up sphinx build warnings - a document referenced in multiple table-of-contents trees, and a duplicate target name in the release how-to guide. She also made most links anonymous to avoid future naming…
One more item: PR 21573 is an automated docstring addition to a "dunder del" method in the database utilities module. It's under review, flagged with a comment, and a reminder that automated documentation contributions still need human sign-off before merging.
What's next: watch for one of the two admin ordering pull requests to get closed as a duplicate, and expect the asgiref bump to actually land as part of six-point-one release prep.
That's the briefing for July 3rd. Back tomorrow with more from Django.
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