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Django 2.0.8 release notes
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*August 1, 2018*

Django 2.0.8 fixes a security issue and several bugs in 2.0.7.

Bugfixes
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* Fixed a regression in Django 2.0.7 that broke the ``regex`` lookup on MariaDB
  (even though MariaDB isn't officially supported) (:ticket:`29544`).

* Fixed a regression where ``django.template.Template`` crashed if the
  ``template_string`` argument is lazy (:ticket:`29617`).