Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀

Last week we had 26 pull requests, into Django by 13 different contributors - including a first-time contributor! Congratulations to Gary Badwal for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

A huge congratulations on the work done at DjangoCon Europe 2026's sprint, because 4 of those PRs were merged during the sprints 🏰

News in Django:

• The undocumented function django.template.library.parse_bits() no longer accepts the takes_context argument, while the InclusionAdminNode.__init__() now takes the template tag name as the first positional argument.
• Fixed a misplaced </div> in the django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/change_list.html template added in Django 6.0 that could be problematic when overriding the pagination block (#37029).
• The new BitAnd, BitOr, and BitXor aggregates return the bitwise AND, OR, XOR, respectively. These aggregates were previously included only in contrib.postgres.
• The File class now always evaluates to True in boolean contexts, rather than relying on the name attribute. The built-in subclasses FieldFile, UploadedFile, TemporaryUploadedFile, InMemoryUploadedFile, and SimpleUploadedFile retain the previous behavior of evaluating based on the name attribute.