Django: JavaScript Tooling Overhaul and Bug Fixes

Django switched from ESLint to Biome for JavaScript linting and formatting, while fixing a critical query ordering bug and updating documentation processes.

Duration: PT1M44S

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This episode is a short developer briefing from Django.

It explains recent repository work in plain language.

  • Show: Django
  • Published: 2026-04-19T00:00:00Z
  • Audio duration: PT1M44S

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Good morning. This is your Django development briefing for April 19th, 2026.

Anže Pečar merged documentation updates for backwards incompatible changes to undocumented APIs, specifically addressing ticket 37048 regarding changes to InclusionAdminNode and parse_bits functions that affected existing implementations.

The most significant change today comes from Tom Carrick, who replaced ESLint with Biome for JavaScript linting and formatting across the entire codebase. This modernizes Django's JavaScript toolchain and affects over 30 files in the admin interface. All JavaScript files have been reformatted to match Biome's…

Jacob Walls fixed a critical regression in query ordering that caused crashes when using descending or random order_by strings with aggregation. The bug affected queries like annotated values with Max functions, throwing FieldError exceptions that prevented valid database operations.

Additional updates include enhanced XML deserializer support for nested fields, needed by Django MongoDB Backend's EmbeddedModelField, and improvements to the SITE_ID system check validation to use proper primary key references. Jacob Walls also updated the release procedures to reflect…

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