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Fixed #12840: mark natural key serialization in the docs as new in 1.2. Thanks, ramiro. 

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@ -196,6 +196,10 @@ them. Something like this will work::
Natural keys
------------
.. versionadded:: 1.2
The ability to use natural keys when serializing/deserializing data was
added in the 1.2 release.
The default serialization strategy for foreign keys and many-to-many
relations is to serialize the value of the primary key(s) of the
objects in the relation. This strategy works well for most types of
@ -341,7 +345,7 @@ a `forward reference` with natural keys - the data you are referencing
must exist before you include a natural key reference to that data.
To accommodate this limitation, calls to :djadmin:`dumpdata` that use
the :djadminopt:`--natural` optionwill serialize any model with a
the :djadminopt:`--natural` option will serialize any model with a
``natural_key()`` method before it serializes normal key objects.
However, this may not always be enough. If your natural key refers to