Calendar Week 20 — Ending 22 May

Released Django 4.1a1.

Triaged:

• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/33717 -- Drop support for PostgreSQL 11. (Accepted)
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/33718 -- Drop support for MySQL 5.7. (Accepted)
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/33699 -- Read ASGI request body from asyncio queue on-demand (Accepted)
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/33716 -- async middleware can be a regular function too (Invalid)

Reviewed:

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/15704 -- Fixed #33699 -- Made ASGI request read body on-demand.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/15710 -- Refs #33646 -- Fixed link markup in queries topic doc.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/15708 -- Fixed #33719 -- Fixed test command crash when running in parallel.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/15706 -- Refs #30581 -- Updated count of steps in model validation docs.
• https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/1165 -- Changed repository URLs to HTTPS.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/15701 -- Refs #33379 -- Fixed minimum supported version of MariaDB.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/15700 -- [4.1.x] Updated source translation catalogs.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/15667 -- Fixed #33683 -- Document HttpResponseBase and allow import from django.http
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/15510 -- Fixed #32565 -- URLResolver._is_callback, URLResolver._callback_strs, URLPattern.lookup_str moved to django.contrib.admindocs
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/15694 -- Refs #33685 -- Doc'd that using PostgreSQL's service names for testing purposes is not supported.

Authored:

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/15699 -- Pre-branch edits for 4.1a1
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/15665 -- Refs #32339 -- Deprecated default.html form template.