Django 4.2.8 release notes

December 4, 2023

Django 4.2.8 fixes several bugs in 4.2.7 and adds compatibility with Python 3.12.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a regression in Django 4.2 that caused makemigrations --check to stop displaying pending migrations (#34457).

• Fixed a regression in Django 4.2 that caused a crash of QuerySet.aggregate() with aggregates referencing other aggregates or window functions through conditional expressions (#34975).

• Fixed a regression in Django 4.2 that caused a crash when annotating a QuerySet with a Window expressions composed of a partition_by clause mixing field types and aggregation expressions (#34987).

• Fixed a regression in Django 4.2 where the admin’s change list page had misaligned pagination links and inputs when using list_editable (#34991).

• Fixed a regression in Django 4.2 where checkboxes in the admin would be centered on narrower screen widths (#34994).

• Fixed a regression in Django 4.2 that caused a crash of querysets with aggregations on MariaDB when the ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL mode was enabled (#34992).

• Fixed a regression in Django 4.2 where the admin’s read-only password widget and some help texts were incorrectly aligned at tablet widths (#34982).

• Fixed a regression in Django 4.2 that caused a migration crash on SQLite when altering unsupported Meta.db_table_comment (#35006).