Issue 338: Django 6.1 alpha 1 released
| in blog | Django News |
|---|---|
| published date | 2026-05-22 |
| original entry | Issue 338: Django 6.1 alpha 1 released |
News
Django 6.1 alpha 1 has been released, signaling the next round of framework updates headed your way. Plan a quick test run in a staging environment so you can catch compatibility issues early as 6.1 develops.
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Updates to Django
Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Pradhvan from Djangonaut Space! 🚀
Last week we had 16 pull requests merged into Django by 11 different contributors - including 2 first-time contributors!
Congratulations to somi and Kasey for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board! 🥳
This week's Django highlights: 🦄
- Deprecated
QuerySet.select_related()with no arguments, along with the corresponding admin options that relied on this implicit form. (#36593)
RedirectViewnow supports apreserve_requestattribute, letting redirects keep the original HTTP method and body by returning 307 or 308 instead of 302 or 301. (#37062)
- Admin actions are now also shown on the object edit page, allowing bulk actions to be triggered directly from the change form. (#12090)
- Fixed Oracle compound-query compilation by clearing unnecessary ordering from combined query components in unions and
ORDER BYwrappers. (#36938)
That's all for this week in Django development! 🐍🦄
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