From 4f343a10f765c4a6672c8ef4c39d044dd7d6653f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 13:04:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [4.2.x] Refs #34118, Refs #34504 -- Added backward
 incompatibility note about EmailBackend.ssl_context.

Follow up to 2848e5d0ce5cf3c31fe87525536093b21d570f69.
Backport of 5a6d4d3bfde07daab9777545694beb014c832264 from main
---
 docs/releases/4.2.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/releases/4.2.txt b/docs/releases/4.2.txt
index 04482e3c17c..b113f3d2174 100644
--- a/docs/releases/4.2.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/4.2.txt
@@ -467,6 +467,12 @@ Miscellaneous
 
 * Support for ``PROJ`` < 5 is removed.
 
+* :class:`~django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend` now verifies a
+  :py:attr:`hostname <ssl.SSLContext.check_hostname>` and
+  :py:attr:`certificates <ssl.SSLContext.verify_mode>`. If you need the
+  previous behavior that is less restrictive and not recommended, subclass
+  ``EmailBackend`` and override the ``ssl_context`` property.
+
 .. _deprecated-features-4.2:
 
 Features deprecated in 4.2