Django: Weekly Recap - Email Infrastructure & Admin Enhancements
Django merged 16 pull requests this week, implementing a major email backend overhaul with dictionary-based MAILERS configuration and adding admin actions to change forms. The team also deprecated QuerySet.select_related() with no arguments and fixed several compatibility issues with Python 3.14 and 3.15.
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- Show: Django
- Published: 2026-05-17T10:00:51Z
- Audio duration: PT3M17S
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Good morning. This is your Django Weekly Recap for May 10th through 17th, 2026.
Sixteen pull requests merged with 23 additional commits this week, delivering significant infrastructure changes and admin improvements.
The major feature this week is the implementation of dictionary-based MAILERS configuration in PR 21231. This 3,500-line change aligns Django's email backend configuration with similar capabilities in caches, databases, and storages, following DEP 0018. The update adds a MAILERS setting, updates all email backends…
Admin functionality received a substantial enhancement with PR 16012, which adds admin actions to change forms after a 14-year ticket. Users can now execute admin actions directly from object edit pages, with proper styling for save_on_top configurations.
For database operations, PR 19822 deprecates QuerySet.select_related() with no arguments due to performance concerns, affecting both the ORM and corresponding admin options. This follows Django's design philosophy of explicit configuration over implicit behavior.
Several fixes addressed compatibility issues. PR 21275 resolves test failures on Python 3.14.5+ due to upstream argument parser changes, while PR…
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