Calendar Week 13 — Ending 02 April

• Released channels-redis 4.1 (for redis-py 4.5.3 security release).
• Help onboarding new Fellow
• Begin GSoC reviews

Triaged:

• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34443 -- Filtering reverse relations against invalid lookups crashes. (Accepted)

Reviewed:

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/16436 -- Refs #31949 -- Async cache view decorators
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/16704 -- Reverted "Refs #31949 -- Enabled @sensitive_variables to work with async functions."
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/16603 -- Fixed #33738 -- Allowed handling ASGI http.disconnects in long-lived requests.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/16700 -- Bumped versions in pre-commit and npm configurations.
• https://github.com/django/channels_redis/pull/335 -- Fix docs for "hosts" #335
• https://github.com/django/channels_redis/pull/338 -- Fix prefix default in docs #338
• https://github.com/django/channels_redis/pull/341 -- Django conf should not be modified #341
• https://github.com/django/channels_redis/pull/337 -- Allow passing extra connection kwargs with host address #337
• https://github.com/django/channels_redis/pull/352 -- Refactored Redis connection utilities to share between layers. #352
• https://github.com/django/channels_redis/pull/347 -- Made core layer close connection pools on loop close. #347

Authored:

• https://github.com/django/channels_redis/pull/359 -- Bumped version and change notes for v4.1.0 release. #359
• https://github.com/django/channels_redis/pull/358 -- Refs #348 -- Skiped PY311 tests until redis-py fixes compatibility. #358
• https://github.com/django/channels_redis/pull/357 -- Updated GHA workflow action versions. #357
• https://github.com/django/channels_redis/pull/356 -- Redis compat: xfail problem test cases and update redis-py. #356