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| ===========================
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| Django Deprecation Timeline
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| ===========================
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| 
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| This document outlines when various pieces of Django will be removed or altered
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| in a backward incompatible way, following their deprecation, as per the
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| :ref:`deprecation policy <internal-release-deprecation-policy>`. More details
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| about each item can often be found in the release notes of two versions prior.
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| 
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| .. _deprecation-removed-in-5.0:
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| 
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| 5.0
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| ---
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| 
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| See the :ref:`Django 4.0 release notes <deprecated-features-4.0>` for more
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| details on these changes.
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| 
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| * The ``SERIALIZE`` test setting will be removed.
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| 
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| * The undocumented ``django.utils.baseconv`` module will be removed.
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| 
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| * The undocumented ``django.utils.datetime_safe`` module will be removed.
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| 
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| * The default value of the ``USE_TZ`` setting will change from ``False`` to
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|   ``True``.
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| 
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| * The default sitemap protocol for sitemaps built outside the context of a
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|   request will change from ``'http'`` to ``'https'``.
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| 
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| * The ``extra_tests`` argument for ``DiscoverRunner.build_suite()`` and
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|   ``DiscoverRunner.run_tests()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``django.contrib.postgres.aggregates.ArrayAgg``, ``JSONBAgg``, and
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|   ``StringAgg`` aggregates will return ``None`` when there are no rows instead
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|   of ``[]``, ``[]``, and ``''`` respectively.
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| 
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| * The ``USE_L10N`` setting will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ`` transitional setting will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for ``pytz`` timezones will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``is_dst`` argument will be removed from:
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| 
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|   * ``QuerySet.datetimes()``
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|   * ``django.utils.timezone.make_aware()``
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|   * ``django.db.models.functions.Trunc()``
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|   * ``django.db.models.functions.TruncSecond()``
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|   * ``django.db.models.functions.TruncMinute()``
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|   * ``django.db.models.functions.TruncHour()``
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|   * ``django.db.models.functions.TruncDay()``
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|   * ``django.db.models.functions.TruncWeek()``
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|   * ``django.db.models.functions.TruncMonth()``
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|   * ``django.db.models.functions.TruncQuarter()``
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|   * ``django.db.models.functions.TruncYear()``
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| 
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| * The ``django.contrib.gis.admin.GeoModelAdmin`` and ``OSMGeoAdmin`` classes
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|   will be removed.
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| 
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| * The undocumented ``BaseForm._html_output()`` method will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ability to return a ``str``, rather than a ``SafeString``, when rendering
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|   an ``ErrorDict`` and ``ErrorList`` will be removed.
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| 
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| .. _deprecation-removed-in-4.1:
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| 
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| 4.1
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| ---
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| 
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| See the :ref:`Django 3.2 release notes <deprecated-features-3.2>` for more
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| details on these changes.
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| 
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| * Support for assigning objects which don't support creating deep copies with
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|   ``copy.deepcopy()`` to class attributes in ``TestCase.setUpTestData()`` will
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|   be removed.
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| 
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| * ``BaseCommand.requires_system_checks`` won't support boolean values.
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| 
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| * The ``whitelist`` argument and ``domain_whitelist`` attribute of
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|   ``django.core.validators.EmailValidator`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``default_app_config`` module variable will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``TransactionTestCase.assertQuerysetEqual()`` will no longer automatically
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|   call ``repr()`` on a queryset when compared to string values.
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| 
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| * ``django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for the pre-Django 3.2 format of messages used by
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|   ``django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage`` will be removed.
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| 
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| .. _deprecation-removed-in-4.0:
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| 
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| 4.0
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| ---
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| 
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| See the :ref:`Django 3.0 release notes <deprecated-features-3.0>` for more
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| details on these changes.
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| 
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| * ``django.utils.http.urlquote()``, ``urlquote_plus()``, ``urlunquote()``, and
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|   ``urlunquote_plus()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.utils.encoding.force_text()`` and ``smart_text()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.utils.translation.ugettext()``, ``ugettext_lazy()``,
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|   ``ugettext_noop()``, ``ungettext()``, and ``ungettext_lazy()`` will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.views.i18n.set_language()`` will no longer set the user language in
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|   ``request.session`` (key ``django.utils.translation.LANGUAGE_SESSION_KEY``).
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| 
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| * ``alias=None`` will be required in the signature of
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|   ``django.db.models.Expression.get_group_by_cols()`` subclasses.
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| 
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| * ``django.utils.text.unescape_entities()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.utils.http.is_safe_url()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| See the :ref:`Django 3.1 release notes <deprecated-features-3.1>` for more
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| details on these changes.
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| 
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| * The ``PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT_DAYS`` setting will be removed.
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| 
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| * The undocumented usage of the :lookup:`isnull` lookup with non-boolean values
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|   as the right-hand side will no longer be allowed.
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| 
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| * The ``django.db.models.query_utils.InvalidQuery`` exception class will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * The ``django-admin.py`` entry point will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``HttpRequest.is_ajax()`` method will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for the pre-Django 3.1 encoding format of cookies values used by
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|   ``django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for the pre-Django 3.1 password reset tokens in the admin site (that
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|   use the SHA-1 hashing algorithm) will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for the pre-Django 3.1 encoding format of sessions will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for the pre-Django 3.1 ``django.core.signing.Signer`` signatures
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|   (encoded with the SHA-1 algorithm) will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for the pre-Django 3.1 ``django.core.signing.dumps()`` signatures
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|   (encoded with the SHA-1 algorithm) in ``django.core.signing.loads()`` will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * Support for the pre-Django 3.1 user sessions (that use the SHA-1 algorithm)
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|   will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``get_response`` argument for
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|   ``django.utils.deprecation.MiddlewareMixin.__init__()`` will be required and
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|   won't accept ``None``.
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| 
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| * The ``providing_args`` argument for ``django.dispatch.Signal`` will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * The ``length`` argument for ``django.utils.crypto.get_random_string()`` will
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|   be required.
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| 
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| * The ``list`` message for ``ModelMultipleChoiceField`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for passing raw column aliases to ``QuerySet.order_by()`` will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * The model ``NullBooleanField`` will be removed. A stub field will remain for
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|   compatibility with historical migrations.
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| 
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| * ``django.conf.urls.url()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The model ``django.contrib.postgres.fields.JSONField`` will be removed. A
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|   stub field will remain for compatibility with historical migrations.
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| 
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| * ``django.contrib.postgres.forms.JSONField``,
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|   ``django.contrib.postgres.fields.jsonb.KeyTransform``, and
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|   ``django.contrib.postgres.fields.jsonb.KeyTextTransform`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``{% ifequal %}`` and ``{% ifnotequal %}`` template tags will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``DEFAULT_HASHING_ALGORITHM`` transitional setting will be removed.
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| 
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| .. _deprecation-removed-in-3.1:
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| 
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| 3.1
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| ---
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| 
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| See the :ref:`Django 2.2 release notes <deprecated-features-2.2>` for more
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| details on these changes.
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| 
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| * ``django.utils.timezone.FixedOffset`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.core.paginator.QuerySetPaginator`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * A model's ``Meta.ordering`` will no longer affect ``GROUP BY`` queries.
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| 
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| * ``django.contrib.postgres.fields.FloatRangeField`` and
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|   ``django.contrib.postgres.forms.FloatRangeField`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``FILE_CHARSET`` setting will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.CachedStaticFilesStorage`` will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * ``RemoteUserBackend.configure_user()`` will require ``request`` as the first
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|   positional argument.
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| 
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| * Support for ``SimpleTestCase.allow_database_queries`` and
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|   ``TransactionTestCase.multi_db`` will be removed.
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| 
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| .. _deprecation-removed-in-3.0:
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| 
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| 3.0
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| ---
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| 
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| See the :ref:`Django 2.0 release notes<deprecated-features-2.0>` for more
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| details on these changes.
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| 
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| * The ``django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2`` module will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.shortcuts.render_to_response()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE`` setting will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``HttpRequest.xreadlines()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for the ``context`` argument of ``Field.from_db_value()`` and
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|   ``Expression.convert_value()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``field_name`` keyword argument of ``QuerySet.earliest()`` and
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|   ``latest()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| See the :ref:`Django 2.1 release notes <deprecated-features-2.1>` for more
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| details on these changes.
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| 
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| * ``django.contrib.gis.db.models.functions.ForceRHR`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.utils.http.cookie_date()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``staticfiles`` and ``admin_static`` template tag libraries will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.static()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The shim to allow ``InlineModelAdmin.has_add_permission()`` to be defined
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|   without an ``obj`` argument will be removed.
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| 
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| .. _deprecation-removed-in-2.1:
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| 
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| 2.1
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| ---
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| 
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| See the :ref:`Django 1.11 release notes<deprecated-features-1.11>` for more
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| details on these changes.
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| 
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| * ``contrib.auth.views.login()``, ``logout()``, ``password_change()``,
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|   ``password_change_done()``, ``password_reset()``, ``password_reset_done()``,
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|   ``password_reset_confirm()``, and ``password_reset_complete()`` will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * The ``extra_context`` parameter of ``contrib.auth.views.logout_then_login()``
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|   will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.test.runner.setup_databases()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.utils.translation.string_concat()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache`` will no longer support
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|   passing ``pylibmc`` behavior settings as top-level attributes of ``OPTIONS``.
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| 
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| * The ``host`` parameter of ``django.utils.http.is_safe_url()`` will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * Silencing of exceptions raised while rendering the ``{% include %}`` template
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|   tag will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``DatabaseIntrospection.get_indexes()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``authenticate()`` method of authentication backends will require
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|   ``request`` as the first positional argument.
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| 
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| * The ``django.db.models.permalink()`` decorator will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``USE_ETAGS`` setting will be removed. ``CommonMiddleware`` and
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|   ``django.utils.cache.patch_response_headers()`` will no longer set ETags.
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| 
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| * The ``Model._meta.has_auto_field`` attribute will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``url()``'s support for inline flags in regular expression groups (``(?i)``,
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|   ``(?L)``, ``(?m)``, ``(?s)``, and ``(?u)``) will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for ``Widget.render()`` methods without the ``renderer`` argument
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|   will be removed.
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| 
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| .. _deprecation-removed-in-2.0:
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| 
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| 2.0
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| ---
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| 
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| See the :ref:`Django 1.9 release notes<deprecated-features-1.9>` for more
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| details on these changes.
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| 
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| * The ``weak`` argument to ``django.dispatch.signals.Signal.disconnect()`` will
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|   be removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.db.backends.base.BaseDatabaseOperations.check_aggregate_support()``
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|   will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``django.forms.extras`` package will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``assignment_tag`` helper will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``host`` argument to ``assertsRedirects`` will be removed. The
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|   compatibility layer which allows absolute URLs to be considered equal to
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|   relative ones when the path is identical will also be removed.
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| 
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| * ``Field.rel`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``Field.remote_field.to`` attribute will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``on_delete`` argument for ``ForeignKey`` and ``OneToOneField``  will be
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|   required.
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| 
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| * ``django.db.models.fields.add_lazy_relation()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * When time zone support is enabled, database backends that don't support time
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|   zones won't convert aware datetimes to naive values in UTC anymore when such
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|   values are passed as parameters to SQL queries executed outside of the ORM,
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|   e.g. with ``cursor.execute()``.
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| 
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| * The ``django.contrib.auth.tests.utils.skipIfCustomUser()`` decorator will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * The ``GeoManager`` and ``GeoQuerySet`` classes will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``django.contrib.gis.geoip`` module will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``supports_recursion`` check for template loaders will be removed from:
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| 
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|   * ``django.template.engine.Engine.find_template()``
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|   * ``django.template.loader_tags.ExtendsNode.find_template()``
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|   * ``django.template.loaders.base.Loader.supports_recursion()``
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|   * ``django.template.loaders.cached.Loader.supports_recursion()``
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| 
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| * The ``load_template()`` and ``load_template_sources()`` template loader
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|   methods will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``template_dirs`` argument for template loaders will be removed:
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| 
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|   * ``django.template.loaders.base.Loader.get_template()``
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|   * ``django.template.loaders.cached.Loader.cache_key()``
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|   * ``django.template.loaders.cached.Loader.get_template()``
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|   * ``django.template.loaders.cached.Loader.get_template_sources()``
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|   * ``django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader.get_template_sources()``
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| 
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| * The ``django.template.loaders.base.Loader.__call__()`` method will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * Support for custom error views with a single positional parameter will be
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|   dropped.
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| 
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| * The ``mime_type`` attribute of ``django.utils.feedgenerator.Atom1Feed`` and
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|   ``django.utils.feedgenerator.RssFeed`` will be removed in favor of
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|   ``content_type``.
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| 
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| * The ``app_name`` argument to ``django.conf.urls.include()`` will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * Support for passing a 3-tuple as the first argument to ``include()`` will
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|   be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for setting a URL instance namespace without an application
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|   namespace will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``Field._get_val_from_obj()`` will be removed in favor of
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|   ``Field.value_from_object()``.
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| 
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| * ``django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``current_app`` parameter to the ``contrib.auth`` views will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``callable_obj`` keyword argument to
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|   ``SimpleTestCase.assertRaisesMessage()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for the ``allow_tags`` attribute on ``ModelAdmin`` methods will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * The ``enclosure`` keyword argument to ``SyndicationFeed.add_item()`` will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * The ``django.template.loader.LoaderOrigin`` and
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|   ``django.template.base.StringOrigin`` aliases for
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|   ``django.template.base.Origin`` will be removed.
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| 
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| See the :ref:`Django 1.10 release notes <deprecated-features-1.10>` for more
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| details on these changes.
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| 
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| * The ``makemigrations --exit`` option will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for direct assignment to a reverse foreign key or many-to-many
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|   relation will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``get_srid()`` and ``set_srid()`` methods of
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|   ``django.contrib.gis.geos.GEOSGeometry`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``get_x()``, ``set_x()``, ``get_y()``, ``set_y()``, ``get_z()``, and
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|   ``set_z()`` methods of ``django.contrib.gis.geos.Point`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``get_coords()`` and ``set_coords()`` methods of
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|   ``django.contrib.gis.geos.Point`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``cascaded_union`` property of ``django.contrib.gis.geos.MultiPolygon``
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|   will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.utils.functional.allow_lazy()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``shell --plain`` option will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``django.core.urlresolvers`` module will be removed.
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| 
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| * The model ``CommaSeparatedIntegerField`` will be removed. A stub field will
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|   remain for compatibility with historical migrations.
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| 
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| * Support for the template ``Context.has_key()`` method will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for the ``django.core.files.storage.Storage.accessed_time()``,
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|   ``created_time()``, and ``modified_time()`` methods will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for query lookups using the model name when
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|   ``Meta.default_related_name`` is set will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``__search`` query lookup and the
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|   ``DatabaseOperations.fulltext_search_sql()`` method will be removed.
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| 
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| * The shim for supporting custom related manager classes without a
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|   ``_apply_rel_filters()`` method will be removed.
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| 
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| * Using ``User.is_authenticated()`` and ``User.is_anonymous()`` as methods
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|   will no longer be supported.
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| 
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| * The private attribute ``virtual_fields`` of ``Model._meta`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The private keyword arguments ``virtual_only`` in
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|   ``Field.contribute_to_class()`` and ``virtual`` in
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|   ``Model._meta.add_field()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``javascript_catalog()`` and ``json_catalog()`` views will be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``django.contrib.gis.utils.precision_wkt()`` function will be removed.
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| 
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| * In multi-table inheritance, implicit promotion of a ``OneToOneField`` to a
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|   ``parent_link`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * Support for ``Widget._format_value()`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``FileField`` methods ``get_directory_name()`` and ``get_filename()`` will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * The ``mark_for_escaping()`` function and the classes it uses: ``EscapeData``,
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|   ``EscapeBytes``, ``EscapeText``, ``EscapeString``, and ``EscapeUnicode`` will
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|   be removed.
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| 
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| * The ``escape`` filter will change to use
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|   ``django.utils.html.conditional_escape()``.
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| 
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| * ``Manager.use_for_related_fields`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * Model ``Manager`` inheritance will follow MRO inheritance rules and the
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|   ``Meta.manager_inheritance_from_future`` to opt-in to this behavior will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * Support for old-style middleware using ``settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES`` will
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|   be removed.
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| 
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| .. _deprecation-removed-in-1.10:
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| 
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| 1.10
 | |
| ----
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| 
 | |
| See the :ref:`Django 1.8 release notes<deprecated-features-1.8>` for more
 | |
| details on these changes.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Support for calling a ``SQLCompiler`` directly as an alias for calling its
 | |
|   ``quote_name_unless_alias`` method will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``cycle`` and ``firstof`` template tags will be removed from the ``future``
 | |
|   template tag library (used during the 1.6/1.7 deprecation period).
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.conf.urls.patterns()`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Support for the ``prefix`` argument to
 | |
|   ``django.conf.urls.i18n.i18n_patterns()`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``SimpleTestCase.urls`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Using an incorrect count of unpacked values in the ``for`` template tag
 | |
|   will raise an exception rather than fail silently.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ability to reverse URLs using a dotted Python path will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ability to use a dotted Python path for the ``LOGIN_URL`` and
 | |
|   ``LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL`` settings will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Support for :py:mod:`optparse` will be dropped for custom management commands
 | |
|   (replaced by :py:mod:`argparse`).
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The class ``django.core.management.NoArgsCommand`` will be removed. Use
 | |
|   :class:`~django.core.management.BaseCommand` instead, which takes no arguments
 | |
|   by default.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.core.context_processors`` module will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.db.models.sql.aggregates`` module will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.contrib.gis.db.models.sql.aggregates`` module will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The following methods and properties of ``django.db.sql.query.Query`` will
 | |
|   be removed:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   * Properties: ``aggregates`` and ``aggregate_select``
 | |
|   * Methods: ``add_aggregate``, ``set_aggregate_mask``, and
 | |
|     ``append_aggregate_mask``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.template.resolve_variable`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The following private APIs will be removed from
 | |
|   :class:`django.db.models.options.Options` (``Model._meta``):
 | |
| 
 | |
|   * ``get_field_by_name()``
 | |
|   * ``get_all_field_names()``
 | |
|   * ``get_fields_with_model()``
 | |
|   * ``get_concrete_fields_with_model()``
 | |
|   * ``get_m2m_with_model()``
 | |
|   * ``get_all_related_objects()``
 | |
|   * ``get_all_related_objects_with_model()``
 | |
|   * ``get_all_related_many_to_many_objects()``
 | |
|   * ``get_all_related_m2m_objects_with_model()``
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``error_message`` argument of ``django.forms.RegexField`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``unordered_list`` filter will no longer support old style lists.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Support for string ``view`` arguments to ``url()`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The backward compatible shim  to rename ``django.forms.Form._has_changed()``
 | |
|   to ``has_changed()`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``removetags`` template filter will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``remove_tags()`` and ``strip_entities()`` functions in
 | |
|   ``django.utils.html`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``is_admin_site`` argument to
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset()`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.db.models.field.subclassing.SubfieldBase`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.utils.checksums`` will be removed; its functionality is included
 | |
|   in ``django-localflavor`` 1.1+.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``original_content_type_id`` attribute on
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.admin.helpers.InlineAdminForm`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The backwards compatibility shim to allow ``FormMixin.get_form()`` to be
 | |
|   defined with no default value for its ``form_class`` argument will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The following settings will be removed:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   * ``ALLOWED_INCLUDE_ROOTS``
 | |
|   * ``TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS``
 | |
|   * ``TEMPLATE_DEBUG``
 | |
|   * ``TEMPLATE_DIRS``
 | |
|   * ``TEMPLATE_LOADERS``
 | |
|   * ``TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID``
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The backwards compatibility alias ``django.template.loader.BaseLoader`` will
 | |
|   be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Django template objects returned by
 | |
|   :func:`~django.template.loader.get_template` and
 | |
|   :func:`~django.template.loader.select_template` won't accept a
 | |
|   :class:`~django.template.Context` in their
 | |
|   :meth:`~django.template.backends.base.Template.render()` method anymore.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * :doc:`Template response APIs </ref/template-response>` will enforce the use
 | |
|   of :class:`dict` and backend-dependent template objects instead of
 | |
|   :class:`~django.template.Context` and :class:`~django.template.Template`
 | |
|   respectively.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``current_app`` parameter for the following function and classes will be
 | |
|   removed:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   * ``django.shortcuts.render()``
 | |
|   * ``django.template.Context()``
 | |
|   * ``django.template.RequestContext()``
 | |
|   * ``django.template.response.TemplateResponse()``
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``dictionary`` and ``context_instance`` parameters for the following
 | |
|   functions will be removed:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   * ``django.shortcuts.render()``
 | |
|   * ``django.shortcuts.render_to_response()``
 | |
|   * ``django.template.loader.render_to_string()``
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``dirs`` parameter for the following functions will be removed:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   * ``django.template.loader.get_template()``
 | |
|   * ``django.template.loader.select_template()``
 | |
|   * ``django.shortcuts.render()``
 | |
|   * ``django.shortcuts.render_to_response()``
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Session verification will be enabled regardless of whether or not
 | |
|   ``'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware'`` is in
 | |
|   ``MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Private attribute ``django.db.models.Field.related`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``--list`` option of the ``migrate`` management command will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``ssi`` template tag will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Support for the ``=`` comparison operator in the ``if`` template tag will be
 | |
|   removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The backwards compatibility shims to allow ``Storage.get_available_name()``
 | |
|   and ``Storage.save()`` to be defined without a ``max_length`` argument will
 | |
|   be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Support for the legacy ``%(<foo>)s`` syntax in ``ModelFormMixin.success_url``
 | |
|   will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``GeoQuerySet`` aggregate methods ``collect()``, ``extent()``, ``extent3d()``,
 | |
|   ``make_line()``, and ``unionagg()`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Ability to specify ``ContentType.name`` when creating a content type instance
 | |
|   will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Support for the old signature of ``allow_migrate`` will be removed. It changed
 | |
|   from ``allow_migrate(self, db, model)`` to
 | |
|   ``allow_migrate(self, db, app_label, model_name=None, **hints)``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Support for the syntax of ``{% cycle %}`` that uses comma-separated arguments
 | |
|   will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The warning that :class:`~django.core.signing.Signer` issues when given an
 | |
|   invalid separator will become an exception.
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. _deprecation-removed-in-1.9:
 | |
| 
 | |
| 1.9
 | |
| ---
 | |
| 
 | |
| See the :ref:`Django 1.7 release notes<deprecated-features-1.7>` for more
 | |
| details on these changes.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.utils.dictconfig`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.utils.importlib`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.utils.tzinfo`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.utils.unittest`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``syncdb`` command will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.db.models.signals.pre_syncdb`` and
 | |
|   ``django.db.models.signals.post_syncdb`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``allow_syncdb`` on database routers will no longer automatically become
 | |
|   ``allow_migrate``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Automatic syncing of apps without migrations will be removed. Migrations will
 | |
|   become compulsory for all apps unless you pass the ``--run-syncdb`` option to
 | |
|   ``migrate``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The SQL management commands for apps without migrations, ``sql``, ``sqlall``,
 | |
|   ``sqlclear``, ``sqldropindexes``, and ``sqlindexes``, will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Support for automatic loading of ``initial_data`` fixtures and initial SQL
 | |
|   data will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * All models will need to be defined inside an installed application or
 | |
|   declare an explicit :attr:`~django.db.models.Options.app_label`.
 | |
|   Furthermore, it won't be possible to import them before their application
 | |
|   is loaded. In particular, it won't be possible to import models inside
 | |
|   the root package of their application.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The model and form ``IPAddressField`` will be removed. A stub field will
 | |
|   remain for compatibility with historical migrations.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``AppCommand.handle_app()`` will no longer be supported.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``RequestSite`` and ``get_current_site()`` will no longer be importable from
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.sites.models``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * FastCGI support via the ``runfcgi`` management command will be
 | |
|   removed. Please deploy your project using WSGI.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.utils.datastructures.SortedDict`` will be removed. Use
 | |
|   :class:`collections.OrderedDict` from the Python standard library instead.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``ModelAdmin.declared_fieldsets`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Instances of ``util.py`` in the Django codebase have been renamed to
 | |
|   ``utils.py`` in an effort to unify all util and utils references.
 | |
|   The modules that provided backwards compatibility will be removed:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   * ``django.contrib.admin.util``
 | |
|   * ``django.contrib.gis.db.backends.util``
 | |
|   * ``django.db.backends.util``
 | |
|   * ``django.forms.util``
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``ModelAdmin.get_formsets`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The backward compatibility shim introduced to rename the
 | |
|   ``BaseMemcachedCache._get_memcache_timeout()`` method to
 | |
|   ``get_backend_timeout()`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``--natural`` and ``-n`` options for :djadmin:`dumpdata` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``use_natural_keys`` argument for ``serializers.serialize()`` will be
 | |
|   removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Private API ``django.forms.forms.get_declared_fields()`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ability to use a ``SplitDateTimeWidget`` with ``DateTimeField`` will be
 | |
|   removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``WSGIRequest.REQUEST`` property will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The class ``django.utils.datastructures.MergeDict`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``zh-cn`` and ``zh-tw`` language codes will be removed and have been
 | |
|   replaced by the ``zh-hans`` and ``zh-hant`` language code respectively.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The internal ``django.utils.functional.memoize`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.core.cache.get_cache`` will be removed. Add suitable entries
 | |
|   to :setting:`CACHES` and use :data:`django.core.cache.caches` instead.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.db.models.loading`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Passing callable arguments to querysets will no longer be possible.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``BaseCommand.requires_model_validation`` will be removed in favor of
 | |
|   ``requires_system_checks``. Admin validators will be replaced by admin
 | |
|   checks.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``ModelAdmin.validator_class`` and ``default_validator_class`` attributes
 | |
|   will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``ModelAdmin.validate()`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.db.backends.DatabaseValidation.validate_field`` will be removed in
 | |
|   favor of the ``check_field`` method.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``validate`` management command will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.utils.module_loading.import_by_path`` will be removed in favor of
 | |
|   ``django.utils.module_loading.import_string``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``ssi`` and ``url`` template tags will be removed from the ``future`` template
 | |
|   tag library (used during the 1.3/1.4 deprecation period).
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.utils.text.javascript_quote`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Database test settings as independent entries in the database settings,
 | |
|   prefixed by ``TEST_``, will no longer be supported.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``cache_choices`` option to :class:`~django.forms.ModelChoiceField` and
 | |
|   :class:`~django.forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The default value of the
 | |
|   :attr:`RedirectView.permanent <django.views.generic.base.RedirectView.permanent>`
 | |
|   attribute will change from ``True`` to ``False``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.contrib.sitemaps.FlatPageSitemap`` will be removed in favor of
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.flatpages.sitemaps.FlatPageSitemap``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Private API ``django.test.utils.TestTemplateLoader`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``django.contrib.contenttypes.generic`` module will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Private APIs ``django.db.models.sql.where.WhereNode.make_atom()`` and
 | |
|   ``django.db.models.sql.where.Constraint`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. _deprecation-removed-in-1.8:
 | |
| 
 | |
| 1.8
 | |
| ---
 | |
| 
 | |
| See the :ref:`Django 1.6 release notes<deprecated-features-1.6>` for more
 | |
| details on these changes.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.contrib.comments`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The following transaction management APIs will be removed:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   - ``TransactionMiddleware``,
 | |
|   - the decorators and context managers ``autocommit``, ``commit_on_success``,
 | |
|     and ``commit_manually``, defined in ``django.db.transaction``,
 | |
|   - the functions ``commit_unless_managed`` and ``rollback_unless_managed``,
 | |
|     also defined in ``django.db.transaction``,
 | |
|   - the ``TRANSACTIONS_MANAGED`` setting.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The :ttag:`cycle` and :ttag:`firstof` template tags will auto-escape their
 | |
|   arguments. In 1.6 and 1.7, this behavior is provided by the version of these
 | |
|   tags in the ``future`` template tag library.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``SEND_BROKEN_LINK_EMAILS`` setting will be removed. Add the
 | |
|   :class:`django.middleware.common.BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware` middleware to
 | |
|   your ``MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES`` setting instead.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.middleware.doc.XViewMiddleware`` will be removed. Use
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.admindocs.middleware.XViewMiddleware`` instead.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``Model._meta.module_name`` was renamed to ``model_name``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Remove the backward compatible shims introduced to rename ``get_query_set``
 | |
|   and similar queryset methods. This affects the following classes:
 | |
|   ``BaseModelAdmin``, ``ChangeList``, ``BaseCommentNode``,
 | |
|   ``GenericForeignKey``, ``Manager``, ``SingleRelatedObjectDescriptor`` and
 | |
|   ``ReverseSingleRelatedObjectDescriptor``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Remove the backward compatible shims introduced to rename the attributes
 | |
|   ``ChangeList.root_query_set`` and ``ChangeList.query_set``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.views.defaults.shortcut`` will be removed, as part of the
 | |
|   goal of removing all ``django.contrib`` references from the core
 | |
|   Django codebase. Instead use
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.contenttypes.views.shortcut``. ``django.conf.urls.shortcut``
 | |
|   will also be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Support for the Python Imaging Library (PIL) module will be removed, as it
 | |
|   no longer appears to be actively maintained & does not work on Python 3.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The following private APIs will be removed:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   - ``django.db.backend``
 | |
|   - ``django.db.close_connection()``
 | |
|   - ``django.db.backends.creation.BaseDatabaseCreation.set_autocommit()``
 | |
|   - ``django.db.transaction.is_managed()``
 | |
|   - ``django.db.transaction.managed()``
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.forms.widgets.RadioInput`` will be removed in favor of
 | |
|   ``django.forms.widgets.RadioChoiceInput``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The module ``django.test.simple`` and the class
 | |
|   ``django.test.simple.DjangoTestSuiteRunner`` will be removed. Instead use
 | |
|   ``django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The module ``django.test._doctest`` will be removed. Instead use the doctest
 | |
|   module from the Python standard library.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY`` setting will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Usage of the hard-coded *Hold down "Control", or "Command" on a Mac, to select
 | |
|   more than one.* string to override or append to user-provided ``help_text`` in
 | |
|   forms for ManyToMany model fields will not be performed by Django anymore
 | |
|   either at the model or forms layer.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``Model._meta.get_(add|change|delete)_permission`` methods will
 | |
|   be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The session key ``django_language`` will no longer be read for backwards
 | |
|   compatibility.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Geographic Sitemaps will be removed
 | |
|   (``django.contrib.gis.sitemaps.views.index`` and
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.gis.sitemaps.views.sitemap``).
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.utils.html.fix_ampersands``, the ``fix_ampersands`` template filter and
 | |
|   ``django.utils.html.clean_html`` will be removed following an accelerated deprecation.
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. _deprecation-removed-in-1.7:
 | |
| 
 | |
| 1.7
 | |
| ---
 | |
| 
 | |
| See the :ref:`Django 1.5 release notes<deprecated-features-1.5>` for more
 | |
| details on these changes.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The module ``django.utils.simplejson`` will be removed. The standard library
 | |
|   provides :mod:`json` which should be used instead.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The function ``django.utils.itercompat.product`` will be removed. The Python
 | |
|   builtin version should be used instead.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Auto-correction of INSTALLED_APPS and TEMPLATE_DIRS settings when they are
 | |
|   specified as a plain string instead of a tuple will be removed and raise an
 | |
|   exception.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``mimetype`` argument to the ``__init__`` methods of
 | |
|   :class:`~django.http.HttpResponse`,
 | |
|   :class:`~django.template.response.SimpleTemplateResponse`, and
 | |
|   :class:`~django.template.response.TemplateResponse`, will be removed.
 | |
|   ``content_type`` should be used instead. This also applies to the
 | |
|   ``render_to_response()`` shortcut and the sitemap views,
 | |
|   :func:`~django.contrib.sitemaps.views.index` and
 | |
|   :func:`~django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap`.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * When :class:`~django.http.HttpResponse` is instantiated with an iterator,
 | |
|   or when :attr:`~django.http.HttpResponse.content` is set to an iterator,
 | |
|   that iterator will be immediately consumed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE`` setting, and the ``get_profile()`` method on
 | |
|   the User model, will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``cleanup`` management command will be removed. It's replaced by
 | |
|   ``clearsessions``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``daily_cleanup.py`` script will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``depth`` keyword argument will be removed from
 | |
|   :meth:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet.select_related`.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The undocumented ``get_warnings_state()``/``restore_warnings_state()``
 | |
|   functions from :mod:`django.test.utils` and the ``save_warnings_state()``/
 | |
|   ``restore_warnings_state()``
 | |
|   :ref:`django.test.*TestCase <django-testcase-subclasses>` methods are
 | |
|   deprecated. Use the :class:`warnings.catch_warnings` context manager
 | |
|   available starting with Python 2.6 instead.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The undocumented ``check_for_test_cookie`` method in
 | |
|   :class:`~django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm` will be removed
 | |
|   following an accelerated deprecation. Users subclassing this form should
 | |
|   remove calls to this method, and instead ensure that their auth related views
 | |
|   are CSRF protected, which ensures that cookies are enabled.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The version of ``django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm()`` that
 | |
|   supports base36 encoded user IDs
 | |
|   (``django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm_uidb36``) will be
 | |
|   removed. If your site has been running Django 1.6 for more than
 | |
|   ``PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT_DAYS``, this change will have no effect. If not,
 | |
|   then any password reset links generated before you upgrade to Django 1.7
 | |
|   won't work after the upgrade.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``django.utils.encoding.StrAndUnicode`` mix-in will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. _deprecation-removed-in-1.6:
 | |
| 
 | |
| 1.6
 | |
| ---
 | |
| 
 | |
| See the :ref:`Django 1.4 release notes<deprecated-features-1.4>` for more
 | |
| details on these changes.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.contrib.databrowse`` will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.contrib.localflavor`` will be removed following an accelerated
 | |
|   deprecation.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.contrib.markup`` will be removed following an accelerated
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|   deprecation.
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| 
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| * The compatibility modules ``django.utils.copycompat`` and
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|   ``django.utils.hashcompat`` as well as the functions
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|   ``django.utils.itercompat.all`` and ``django.utils.itercompat.any`` will
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|   be removed. The Python builtin versions should be used instead.
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| 
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| * The ``csrf_response_exempt`` and ``csrf_view_exempt`` decorators will
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|   be removed. Since 1.4 ``csrf_response_exempt`` has been a no-op (it
 | |
|   returns the same function), and ``csrf_view_exempt`` has been a
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|   synonym for ``django.views.decorators.csrf.csrf_exempt``, which should
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|   be used to replace it.
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| 
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| * The ``django.core.cache.backends.memcached.CacheClass`` backend
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|   was split into two in Django 1.3 in order to introduce support for
 | |
|   PyLibMC. The historical ``CacheClass`` will be removed in favor of
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|   ``django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache``.
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| 
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| * The UK-prefixed objects of ``django.contrib.localflavor.uk`` will only
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|   be accessible through their GB-prefixed names (GB is the correct
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|   ISO 3166 code for United Kingdom).
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| 
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| * The ``IGNORABLE_404_STARTS`` and ``IGNORABLE_404_ENDS`` settings have been
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|   superseded by :setting:`IGNORABLE_404_URLS` in the 1.4 release. They will be
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|   removed.
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| 
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| * The form wizard has been refactored to use class-based views with pluggable
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|   backends in 1.4. The previous implementation will be removed.
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| 
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| * Legacy ways of calling
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|   :func:`~django.views.decorators.cache.cache_page` will be removed.
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| 
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| * The backward-compatibility shim to automatically add a debug-false
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|   filter to the ``'mail_admins'`` logging handler will be removed. The
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|   :setting:`LOGGING` setting should include this filter explicitly if
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|   it is desired.
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| 
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| * The builtin truncation functions ``django.utils.text.truncate_words()``
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|   and ``django.utils.text.truncate_html_words()`` will be removed in
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|   favor of the ``django.utils.text.Truncator`` class.
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| 
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| * The ``django.contrib.gis.geoip.GeoIP`` class was moved to
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|   ``django.contrib.gis.geoip`` in 1.4 -- the shortcut in
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.gis.utils`` will be removed.
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| 
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| * ``django.conf.urls.defaults`` will be removed. The functions
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|   ``include()``, ``patterns()``, and ``url()``, plus
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|   :data:`~django.conf.urls.handler404` and :data:`~django.conf.urls.handler500`
 | |
|   are now available through ``django.conf.urls``.
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| 
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| * The functions ``setup_environ()`` and ``execute_manager()`` will be removed
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|   from :mod:`django.core.management`. This also means that the old (pre-1.4)
 | |
|   style of :file:`manage.py` file will no longer work.
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| 
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| * Setting the ``is_safe`` and ``needs_autoescape`` flags as attributes of
 | |
|   template filter functions will no longer be supported.
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| 
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| * The attribute ``HttpRequest.raw_post_data`` was renamed to ``HttpRequest.body``
 | |
|   in 1.4. The backward compatibility will be removed --
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|   ``HttpRequest.raw_post_data`` will no longer work.
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| 
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| * The value for the ``post_url_continue`` parameter in
 | |
|   ``ModelAdmin.response_add()`` will have to be either ``None`` (to redirect
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|   to the newly created object's edit page) or a pre-formatted url. String
 | |
|   formats, such as the previous default ``'../%s/'``, will not be accepted any
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|   more.
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| 
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| .. _deprecation-removed-in-1.5:
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| 
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| 1.5
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| ---
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| 
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| See the :ref:`Django 1.3 release notes<deprecated-features-1.3>` for more
 | |
| details on these changes.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Starting Django without a :setting:`SECRET_KEY` will result in an exception
 | |
|   rather than a ``DeprecationWarning``. (This is accelerated from the usual
 | |
|   deprecation path; see the :doc:`Django 1.4 release notes</releases/1.4>`.)
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``mod_python`` request handler will be removed. The ``mod_wsgi``
 | |
|   handler should be used instead.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``template`` attribute on ``django.test.client.Response``
 | |
|   objects returned by the :ref:`test client <test-client>` will be removed.
 | |
|   The :attr:`~django.test.Response.templates` attribute should be
 | |
|   used instead.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``django.test.simple.DjangoTestRunner`` will be removed.
 | |
|   Instead use a ``unittest``-native class. The features of the
 | |
|   ``django.test.simple.DjangoTestRunner`` (including fail-fast and
 | |
|   Ctrl-C test termination) can be provided by :class:`unittest.TextTestRunner`.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The undocumented function
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.formtools.utils.security_hash`` will be removed,
 | |
|   instead use ``django.contrib.formtools.utils.form_hmac``
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The function-based generic view modules will be removed in favor of their
 | |
|   class-based equivalents, outlined :doc:`here
 | |
|   </topics/class-based-views/index>`.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``django.core.servers.basehttp.AdminMediaHandler`` will be
 | |
|   removed.  In its place use
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.staticfiles.handlers.StaticFilesHandler``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The template tags library ``adminmedia`` and the template tag ``{%
 | |
|   admin_media_prefix %}`` will be removed in favor of the generic static files
 | |
|   handling. (This is faster than the usual deprecation path; see the
 | |
|   :doc:`Django 1.4 release notes</releases/1.4>`.)
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``url`` and ``ssi`` template tags will be modified so that the first
 | |
|   argument to each tag is a template variable, not an implied string. In 1.4,
 | |
|   this behavior is provided by a version of the tag in the ``future`` template
 | |
|   tag library.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``reset`` and ``sqlreset`` management commands will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Authentication backends will need to support an inactive user
 | |
|   being passed to all methods dealing with permissions.
 | |
|   The ``supports_inactive_user`` attribute will no longer be checked
 | |
|   and can be removed from custom backends.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * :meth:`~django.contrib.gis.geos.GEOSGeometry.transform` will raise
 | |
|   a :class:`~django.contrib.gis.geos.GEOSException` when called
 | |
|   on a geometry with no SRID value.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.http.CompatCookie`` will be removed in favor of
 | |
|   ``django.http.SimpleCookie``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.core.context_processors.PermWrapper`` and
 | |
|   ``django.core.context_processors.PermLookupDict`` will be removed in
 | |
|   favor of the corresponding
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.auth.context_processors.PermWrapper`` and
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.auth.context_processors.PermLookupDict``, respectively.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The :setting:`MEDIA_URL` or :setting:`STATIC_URL` settings will be
 | |
|   required to end with a trailing slash to ensure there is a consistent
 | |
|   way to combine paths in templates.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.db.models.fields.URLField.verify_exists`` will be removed. The
 | |
|   feature was deprecated in 1.3.1 due to intractable security and
 | |
|   performance issues and will follow a slightly accelerated deprecation
 | |
|   timeframe.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Translations located under the so-called *project path* will be ignored during
 | |
|   the translation building process performed at runtime. The
 | |
|   :setting:`LOCALE_PATHS` setting can be used for the same task by including the
 | |
|   filesystem path to a ``locale`` directory containing non-app-specific
 | |
|   translations in its value.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The Markup contrib app will no longer support versions of Python-Markdown
 | |
|   library earlier than 2.1. An accelerated timeline was used as this was
 | |
|   a security related deprecation.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``CACHE_BACKEND`` setting will be removed. The cache backend(s) should be
 | |
|   specified in the :setting:`CACHES` setting.
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. _deprecation-removed-in-1.4:
 | |
| 
 | |
| 1.4
 | |
| ---
 | |
| 
 | |
| See the :ref:`Django 1.2 release notes<deprecated-features-1.2>` for more
 | |
| details on these changes.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``CsrfResponseMiddleware`` and ``CsrfMiddleware`` will be removed.  Use
 | |
|   the ``{% csrf_token %}`` template tag inside forms to enable CSRF
 | |
|   protection. ``CsrfViewMiddleware`` remains and is enabled by default.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The old imports for CSRF functionality (``django.contrib.csrf.*``),
 | |
|   which moved to core in 1.2, will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``django.contrib.gis.db.backend`` module will be removed in favor
 | |
|   of the specific backends.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``SMTPConnection`` will be removed in favor of a generic email backend API.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The many to many SQL generation functions on the database backends
 | |
|   will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ability to use the ``DATABASE_*`` family of top-level settings to
 | |
|   define database connections will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ability to use shorthand notation to specify a database backend
 | |
|   (i.e., ``sqlite3`` instead of ``django.db.backends.sqlite3``) will be
 | |
|   removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``get_db_prep_save``, ``get_db_prep_value`` and
 | |
|   ``get_db_prep_lookup`` methods will have to support multiple databases.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``Message`` model (in ``django.contrib.auth``), its related
 | |
|   manager in the ``User`` model (``user.message_set``), and the
 | |
|   associated methods (``user.message_set.create()`` and
 | |
|   ``user.get_and_delete_messages()``), will be removed.  The
 | |
|   :doc:`messages framework </ref/contrib/messages>` should be used
 | |
|   instead. The related ``messages`` variable returned by the
 | |
|   auth context processor will also be removed. Note that this
 | |
|   means that the admin application will depend on the messages
 | |
|   context processor.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Authentication backends will need to support the ``obj`` parameter for
 | |
|   permission checking. The ``supports_object_permissions`` attribute
 | |
|   will no longer be checked and can be removed from custom backends.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Authentication backends will need to support the ``AnonymousUser`` class
 | |
|   being passed to all methods dealing with permissions.  The
 | |
|   ``supports_anonymous_user`` variable will no longer be checked and can be
 | |
|   removed from custom backends.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ability to specify a callable template loader rather than a
 | |
|   ``Loader`` class will be removed, as will the ``load_template_source``
 | |
|   functions that are included with the built in template loaders for
 | |
|   backwards compatibility.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.utils.translation.get_date_formats()`` and
 | |
|   ``django.utils.translation.get_partial_date_formats()``. These functions
 | |
|   will be removed; use the locale-aware
 | |
|   ``django.utils.formats.get_format()`` to get the appropriate formats.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * In ``django.forms.fields``, the constants: ``DEFAULT_DATE_INPUT_FORMATS``,
 | |
|   ``DEFAULT_TIME_INPUT_FORMATS`` and
 | |
|   ``DEFAULT_DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS`` will be removed. Use
 | |
|   ``django.utils.formats.get_format()`` to get the appropriate
 | |
|   formats.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ability to use a function-based test runner will be removed,
 | |
|   along with the ``django.test.simple.run_tests()`` test runner.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``views.feed()`` view and ``feeds.Feed`` class in
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.syndication`` will be removed. The class-based view
 | |
|   ``views.Feed`` should be used instead.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.core.context_processors.auth``.  This release will
 | |
|   remove the old method in favor of the new method in
 | |
|   ``django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``postgresql`` database backend will be removed, use the
 | |
|   ``postgresql_psycopg2`` backend instead.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The ``no`` language code will be removed and has been replaced by the
 | |
|   ``nb`` language code.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Authentication backends will need to define the boolean attribute
 | |
|   ``supports_inactive_user`` until version 1.5 when it will be assumed that
 | |
|   all backends will handle inactive users.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``django.db.models.fields.XMLField`` will be removed. This was
 | |
|   deprecated as part of the 1.3 release. An accelerated deprecation
 | |
|   schedule has been used because the field hasn't performed any role
 | |
|   beyond that of a simple ``TextField`` since the removal of ``oldforms``.
 | |
|   All uses of ``XMLField`` can be replaced with ``TextField``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * The undocumented ``mixin`` parameter to the ``open()`` method of
 | |
|   ``django.core.files.storage.Storage`` (and subclasses) will be removed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. _deprecation-removed-in-1.3:
 | |
| 
 | |
| 1.3
 | |
| ---
 | |
| 
 | |
| See the :ref:`Django 1.1 release notes<deprecated-features-1.1>` for more
 | |
| details on these changes.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * ``AdminSite.root()``.  This method of hooking up the admin URLs will be
 | |
|   removed in favor of including ``admin.site.urls``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| * Authentication backends need to define the boolean attributes
 | |
|   ``supports_object_permissions`` and ``supports_anonymous_user`` until
 | |
|   version 1.4, at which point it will be assumed that all backends will
 | |
|   support these options.
 |