Fixed #6903 - Preserve admin changelist filters after saving or deleting an object

docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt

@@ -870,6 +870,14 @@ subclass::
     ``prepopulated_fields`` doesn't accept ``DateTimeField``, ``ForeignKey``,
     nor ``ManyToManyField`` fields.
 
+.. attribute:: ModelAdmin.preserve_filters
+
+    .. versionadded:: 1.6
+
+    The admin now preserves filters on the list view after creating, editing
+    or deleting an object. You can restore the previous behavior of clearing
+    filters by setting this attribute to ``False``.
+
 .. attribute:: ModelAdmin.radio_fields
 
     By default, Django's admin uses a select-box interface (<select>) for

docs/releases/1.6.txt

@@ -325,6 +325,11 @@ Minor features
   :ref:`see the updated recommendation <raising-validation-error>` for raising
   a ``ValidationError``.
 
+* :class:`~django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin` now preserves filters on the list view
+  after creating, editing or deleting an object. It's possible to restore the previous
+  behavior of clearing filters by setting the
+  :attr:`~django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.preserve_filters` attribute to ``False``.
+
 Backwards incompatible changes in 1.6
 =====================================
 
@@ -634,6 +639,16 @@ will render something like:
 If you want to keep the current behavior of rendering ``label_tag`` without
 the ``label_suffix``, instantiate the form ``label_suffix=''``.
 
+Admin views ``_changelist_filters`` GET parameter
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+To achieve preserving and restoring list view filters, admin views now
+pass around the `_changelist_filters` GET parameter. It's important that you
+account for that change if you have custom admin templates or if your tests
+rely on the previous URLs. If you want to revert to the original behavior you
+can set the
+:attr:`~django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.preserve_filters` attribute to ``False``.
+
 Miscellaneous
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