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Django 1.7.9 release notes
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*July 8, 2015*

Django 1.7.9 fixes several security issues and bugs in 1.7.8.

Bugfixes
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* Prevented the loss of ``null``/``not null`` column properties during field
  renaming of MySQL databases (:ticket:`24817`).

* Fixed ``SimpleTestCase.assertRaisesMessage()`` on Python 2.7.10
  (:ticket:`24903`).