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Django 2.1 release notes - UNDER DEVELOPMENT
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Welcome to Django 2.1!

These release notes cover the :ref:`new features <whats-new-2.1>`, as well as
some :ref:`backwards incompatible changes <backwards-incompatible-2.1>` you'll
want to be aware of when upgrading from Django 2.0 or earlier. We've
:ref:`dropped some features<removed-features-2.1>` that have reached the end of
their deprecation cycle, and we've :ref:`begun the deprecation process for some
features <deprecated-features-2.1>`.

See the :doc:`/howto/upgrade-version` guide if you're updating an existing
project.

Python compatibility
====================

Django 2.1 supports Python 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7. Django 2.0 is the last version to
support Python 3.4.  We **highly recommend** and only officially support the
latest release of each series.

.. _whats-new-2.1:

What's new in Django 2.1
========================

Minor features
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:mod:`django.contrib.admin`
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* :attr:`.ModelAdmin.search_fields` now accepts any lookup such as
  ``field__exact``.

:mod:`django.contrib.admindocs`
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* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.auth`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* :djadmin:`createsuperuser` now gives a prompt to allow bypassing the
  :setting:`AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS` checks.

:mod:`django.contrib.contenttypes`
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* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.gis`
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* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.messages`
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* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.postgres`
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* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.redirects`
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* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.sessions`
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* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.sitemaps`
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* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.sites`
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* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.staticfiles`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.syndication`
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* ...

Cache
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* ...

CSRF
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* ...

Database backends
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* ...

Email
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* ...

File Storage
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* ...

File Uploads
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* ...


Forms
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* ...

Generic Views
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* ...

Internationalization
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* ...

Management Commands
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* ...

Migrations
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* Added support for serialization of ``functools.partialmethod`` objects.

Models
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* Models can now use ``__init_subclass__()`` from :pep:`487`.

Requests and Responses
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* Added :meth:`.HttpRequest.get_full_path_info`.

Serialization
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* ...

Signals
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Templates
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* ...

Tests
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* ...

URLs
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* ...

Validators
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* ...

.. _backwards-incompatible-2.1:

Backwards incompatible changes in 2.1
=====================================

Database backend API
--------------------

* To adhere to :pep:`249`, exceptions where a database doesn't support a
  feature are changed from :exc:`NotImplementedError` to
  :exc:`django.db.NotSupportedError`.

:mod:`django.contrib.gis`
-------------------------

* Support for SpatiaLite 4.0 is removed.

Dropped support for MySQL 5.5
-----------------------------

The end of upstream support for MySQL 5.5 is December 2018. Django 2.1 supports
MySQL 5.6 and higher.

Dropped support for PostgreSQL 9.3
----------------------------------

The end of upstream support for PostgreSQL 9.3 is September 2018. Django 2.1
supports PostgreSQL 9.4 and higher.

Miscellaneous
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* ...

.. _deprecated-features-2.1:

Features deprecated in 2.1
==========================

Miscellaneous
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* ...

.. _removed-features-2.1:

Features removed in 2.1
=======================

These features have reached the end of their deprecation cycle and are removed
in Django 2.1. See :ref:`deprecated-features-1.11` for details, including how
to remove usage of these features.
in Django 2.1. See :ref:`deprecated-features-1.11` and for details, including
how to remove usage of these features.

* ``contrib.auth.views.login()``, ``logout()``, ``password_change()``,
  ``password_change_done()``, ``password_reset()``, ``password_reset_done()``,
  ``password_reset_confirm()``, and ``password_reset_complete()`` are removed.

* The ``extra_context`` parameter of ``contrib.auth.views.logout_then_login()``
  is removed.

* ``django.test.runner.setup_databases()`` is removed.

* ``django.utils.translation.string_concat()`` is removed.

* ``django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache`` no longer supports
  passing ``pylibmc`` behavior settings as top-level attributes of ``OPTIONS``.

* The ``host`` parameter of ``django.utils.http.is_safe_url()`` is removed.

* Silencing of exceptions raised while rendering the ``{% include %}`` template
  tag is removed.

* ``DatabaseIntrospection.get_indexes()`` is removed.

* The ``authenticate()`` method of authentication backends requires ``request``
  as the first positional argument.

* The ``django.db.models.permalink()`` decorator is removed.

* The ``USE_ETAGS`` setting is removed. ``CommonMiddleware`` and
  ``django.utils.cache.patch_response_headers()`` no longer set ETags.

* The ``Model._meta.has_auto_field`` attribute is removed.

* Support for regular expression groups with ``iLmsu#`` in ``url()`` is removed.

* Support for ``Widget.render()`` methods without the ``renderer`` argument
  is removed.
