From 42659ceb3f635b9eb640c0c7168e02fc71fabd05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Malcolm Box <malcolm@tellybug.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:55:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [1.6.x] Fixed #22516 -- Added versionchanged annotation for
 STATIC_ROOT default value.

Backport of 658710be00 from stable/1.7.x
---
 docs/ref/settings.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt
index 7f5e05c8f4..260eada1ee 100644
--- a/docs/ref/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt
@@ -2525,6 +2525,10 @@ STATIC_ROOT
 
 Default: ``None``
 
+.. versionchanged:: 1.6.2
+
+    The default changed from ``''`` (empty string) to ``None``.
+
 The absolute path to the directory where :djadmin:`collectstatic` will collect
 static files for deployment.