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Django 1.9.6 release notes
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*Under development*

Django 1.9.6 fixes several bugs in 1.9.5.

Bugfixes
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* Added support for relative path redirects to the test client and to
  ``SimpleTestCase.assertRedirects()`` because Django 1.9 no longer converts
  redirects to absolute URIs (:ticket:`26428`).

* Fixed ``TimeField`` microseconds round-tripping on MySQL and SQLite
  (:ticket:`26498`).

* Prevented ``makemigrations`` from generating infinite migrations for a model
  field that references a ``functools.partial`` (:ticket:`26475`).

* Fixed a regression where ``SessionBase.pop()`` returned ``None`` rather than
  raising a ``KeyError`` for nonexistent values (:ticket:`26520`).

* Fixed a regression causing the cached template loader to crash when using
  template names starting with a dash (:ticket:`26536`).