Django News - Contributor Covenant, Security Team Expansion, and Django 6.1 Updates - Feb 20th 2026
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Last week we had 25 pull requests merged into Django by 13 different contributors - including 2 first-time contributors! Congratulations to 93578237 and Hossam Hassan for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
News in Django 6.1:
- The new
QuerySet.totally_ordered propertyreturnsTrueif theQuerySetis ordered and the ordering is deterministic. HttpRequest.multipart_parser_classcan now be customized to use a different multipart parser class.StringAggnow supportsdistinct=Trueon SQLite when using the default delimiter Value(",") only.first()andlast()no longer order by the primary key when aQuerySet’s ordering has been forcibly cleared by callingorder_by()with no arguments.
It's also fixed for Django 5.2 NameError when inspecting functions making use of deferred annotations in Python 3.14 (#36903).
Is deprecated in Django 6.0: Passing a string to the delimiter argument of the (deprecated) PostgreSQL StringAgg class is deprecated. Use a Value or expression instead to prepare for compatibility with the generally available StringAgg class.
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