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Django 1.8.7 release notes
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*Under development*

Django 1.8.7 fixes several bugs in 1.8.6.

Additionally, Django's vendored version of six, :mod:`django.utils.six`, has
been upgraded to the latest release (1.10.0).

Bugfixes
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* Fixed a crash of the debug view during the autumn DST change when
  :setting:`USE_TZ` is ``False`` and ``pytz`` is installed.

* Fixed a regression in 1.8.6 that caused database routers without an
  ``allow_migrate()`` method to crash (:ticket:`25686`).

* Fixed a regression in 1.8.6 by restoring the ability to use ``Manager``
  objects for the ``queryset`` argument of ``ModelChoiceField``
  (:ticket:`25683`).

* Fixed a regression in 1.8.6 that caused an application with South migrations
  in the ``migrations`` directory to fail (:ticket:`25618`).

* Fixed a data loss possibility with :class:`~django.db.models.Prefetch` if
  ``to_attr`` is set to a ``ManyToManyField`` (:ticket:`25693`).

* Fixed a regression in 1.8 by making ``gettext()`` once again return UTF-8
  bytestrings on Python 2 if the input is a bytestring (:ticket:`25720`).

* Fixed serialization of
  :class:`~django.contrib.postgres.fields.DateRangeField` and
  :class:`~django.contrib.postgres.fields.DateTimeRangeField` (:ticket:`24937`).