Django 1.9.8 release notes

July 18, 2016

Django 1.9.8 fixes a security issue and several bugs in 1.9.7.

XSS in admin’s add/change related popup

Unsafe usage of JavaScript’s Element.innerHTML could result in XSS in the admin’s add/change related popup. Element.textContent is now used to prevent execution of the data.

The debug view also used innerHTML. Although a security issue wasn’t identified there, out of an abundance of caution it’s also updated to use textContent.

Bugfixes

• Fixed missing varchar/text_pattern_ops index on CharField and TextField respectively when using AddField on PostgreSQL (#26889).
• Fixed makemessages crash on Python 2 with non-ASCII file names (#26897).