| in blog | Django News |
|---|---|
| published date | 2026-02-20 |
| original entry | Contributor Covenant, Security Team Expansion, and Django 6.1 Updates |
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News in Django 6.1:
QuerySet.totally_ordered property returns True if the QuerySet is ordered and the ordering is deterministic.HttpRequest.multipart_parser_class can now be customized to use a different multipart parser class.StringAgg now supports distinct=True on SQLite when using the default delimiter Value(",") only.first() and last() no longer order by the primary key when a QuerySet’s ordering has been forcibly cleared by calling order_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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