Admin autocomplete search input does not get focused on click

[Márton Salomváry]

When using autocomplete_fields I expect the autocomplete dropdown's search input to be focused when the autocomplete is open. This used to be the case before 4.0 but it is no longer the case in 4.x.

Steps to reproduce:

• Clone this repo: ​https://github.com/salomvary/django-select2-bug
• pip3 install django==4
• python3 ./manage.py runserver
• Open ​http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/myappp/thing/add/
• Sign in with username: admin, password: admin
• Click on the select next to "Other things:"

Expected: search input is focused.
Actual: search input is not focused.

After pip3 install django==3 and restarting the server, the select can be tested with the expected behavior.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

This is a regression introduce in the update of admin's jQuery to 3.6.0, see ef4ef3b8f5e253f009d27952a4e75e008c9d6e5f. I don't think there is much we can do, it's an issue between two vendored libraries Select2 and jQuery. You can try to report it on their issue tracker.

[Márton Salomváry]

Replying to Mariusz Felisiak:

This is a regression introduce in the update of admin's jQuery to 3.6.0, see ef4ef3b8f5e253f009d27952a4e75e008c9d6e5f. I don't think there is much we can do, it's an issue between two vendored libraries Select2 and jQuery. You can try to report it on their issue tracker.

Thanks for the quick response, will try to figure out what to report and where.

[Márton Salomváry]

For reference this is the bug report in Select2 ​https://github.com/select2/select2/issues/5993

[Hielke Walinga]

This is now fixed in the new release of jQuery 3.7.

​https://github.com/select2/select2/issues/5993#issuecomment-1544538515

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Replying to Hielke Walinga:

This is now fixed in the new release of jQuery 3.7.

​https://github.com/select2/select2/issues/5993#issuecomment-1544538515

Great, we're going to bump jQuery to 3.7.X in Django 5.0.