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===========================
Django Deprecation Timeline
===========================
This document outlines when various pieces of Django will be removed or altered
in a backward incompatible way, following their deprecation, as per the
:ref:`deprecation policy <internal-release-deprecation-policy>`. More details
about each item can often be found in the release notes of two versions prior.
1.7
---
See the :doc:`Django 1.5 release notes</releases/1.5>` for more details on
these changes.
* The module ``django.utils.simplejson`` will be removed. The standard library
provides :mod:`json` which should be used instead.
* The function ``django.utils.itercompat.product`` will be removed. The Python
builtin version should be used instead.
* Auto-correction of INSTALLED_APPS and TEMPLATE_DIRS settings when they are
specified as a plain string instead of a tuple will be removed and raise an
exception.
* The ``mimetype`` argument to the ``__init__`` methods of
:class:`~django.http.HttpResponse`,
:class:`~django.template.response.SimpleTemplateResponse`, and
:class:`~django.template.response.TemplateResponse`, will be removed.
``content_type`` should be used instead. This also applies to the
:func:`~django.shortcuts.render_to_response` shortcut and
the sitemap views, :func:`~django.contrib.sitemaps.views.index` and
:func:`~django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap`.
* When :class:`~django.http.HttpResponse` is instantiated with an iterator,
or when :attr:`~django.http.HttpResponse.content` is set to an iterator,
that iterator will be immediately consumed.
* The ``AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE`` setting, and the ``get_profile()`` method on
the User model, will be removed.
* The ``cleanup`` management command will be removed. It's replaced by
``clearsessions``.
* The ``daily_cleanup.py`` script will be removed.
* The ``depth`` keyword argument will be removed from
:meth:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet.select_related`.
* The undocumented ``get_warnings_state()``/``restore_warnings_state()``
functions from :mod:`django.test.utils` and the ``save_warnings_state()``/
``restore_warnings_state()``
:ref:`django.test.*TestCase <django-testcase-subclasses>` methods are
deprecated. Use the :class:`warnings.catch_warnings` context manager
available starting with Python 2.6 instead.
* The undocumented ``check_for_test_cookie`` method in
:class:`~django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm` will be removed
following an accelerated deprecation. Users subclassing this form should
remove calls to this method, and instead ensure that their auth related views
are CSRF protected, which ensures that cookies are enabled.
* The version of :func:`django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm` that
supports base36 encoded user IDs
(``django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm_uidb36``) will be
removed. If your site has been running Django 1.6 for more than
:setting:`PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT_DAYS`, this change will have no effect. If
not, then any password reset links generated before you upgrade to Django 1.7
won't work after the upgrade.
1.8
---
* ``django.contrib.comments`` will be removed.
* The following transaction management APIs will be removed:
- ``TransactionMiddleware``,
- the decorators and context managers ``autocommit``, ``commit_on_success``,
and ``commit_manually``, defined in ``django.db.transaction``,
- the functions ``commit_unless_managed`` and ``rollback_unless_managed``,
also defined in ``django.db.transaction``,
- the ``TRANSACTIONS_MANAGED`` setting.
Upgrade paths are described in the :ref:`transaction management docs
<transactions-upgrading-from-1.5>`.
* The :ttag:`cycle` and :ttag:`firstof` template tags will auto-escape their
arguments. In 1.6 and 1.7, this behavior is provided by the version of these
tags in the ``future`` template tag library.
* The ``SEND_BROKEN_LINK_EMAILS`` setting will be removed. Add the
:class:`django.middleware.common.BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware` middleware to
your :setting:`MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES` setting instead.
* ``Model._meta.module_name`` was renamed to ``model_name``.
* Remove the backward compatible shims introduced to rename ``get_query_set``
and similar queryset methods. This affects the following classes:
``BaseModelAdmin``, ``ChangeList``, ``BaseCommentNode``,
``GenericForeignKey``, ``Manager``, ``SingleRelatedObjectDescriptor`` and
``ReverseSingleRelatedObjectDescriptor``.
* Remove the backward compatible shims introduced to rename the attributes
``ChangeList.root_query_set`` and ``ChangeList.query_set``.
* ``django.views.defaults.shortcut`` will be removed, as part of the
goal of removing all ``django.contrib`` references from the core
Django codebase. Instead use
``django.contrib.contenttypes.views.shortcut``. ``django.conf.urls.shortcut``
will also be removed.
* Support for the Python Imaging Library (PIL) module will be removed, as it
no longer appears to be actively maintained & does not work on Python 3.
You are advised to install `Pillow`_, which should be used instead.
.. _`Pillow`: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow
* The following private APIs will be removed:
- ``django.db.backend``
- ``django.db.close_connection()``
- ``django.db.backends.creation.BaseDatabaseCreation.set_autocommit()``
- ``django.db.transaction.is_managed()``
- ``django.db.transaction.managed()``
* ``django.forms.widgets.RadioInput`` will be removed in favor of
``django.forms.widgets.RadioChoiceInput``.
* The module ``django.test.simple`` and the class
``django.test.simple.DjangoTestSuiteRunner`` will be removed. Instead use
``django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner``.
* The module ``django.test._doctest`` will be removed. Instead use the doctest
module from the Python standard library.
* The ``CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY`` setting will be removed.
* Usage of the hard-coded *Hold down "Control", or "Command" on a Mac, to select
more than one.* string to override or append to user-provided ``help_text`` in
forms for ManyToMany model fields will not be performed by Django anymore
either at the model or forms layer.
* The ``Model._meta.get_(add|change|delete)_permission`` methods will
be removed.
* The session key ``django_language`` will no longer be read for backwards
compatibility.
* Geographic Sitemaps will be removed
(``django.contrib.gis.sitemaps.views.index`` and
``django.contrib.gis.sitemaps.views.sitemap``).
1.9
---
* ``django.utils.dictconfig`` will be removed.
* ``django.utils.importlib`` will be removed.
* ``django.utils.tzinfo`` will be removed.
* ``django.utils.unittest`` will be removed.
* The ``syncdb`` command will be removed.
* ``django.db.models.signals.pre_syncdb`` and
``django.db.models.signals.post_syncdb`` will be removed, and
``django.db.models.signals.pre_migrate`` and
``django.db.models.signals.post_migrate`` will lose their
``create_models`` and ``created_models`` arguments.
* ``allow_syncdb`` on database routers will no longer automatically become
``allow_migrate``.
* If models are organized in a package, Django will no longer look for
:ref:`initial SQL data<initial-sql>` in ``myapp/models/sql/``. Move your
custom SQL files to ``myapp/sql/``.
* The model and form ``IPAddressField`` will be removed.
* FastCGI support via the ``runfcgi`` management command will be
removed. Please deploy your project using WSGI.
* ``django.utils.datastructures.SortedDict`` will be removed. Use
:class:`collections.OrderedDict` from the Python standard library instead.
* ``ModelAdmin.declared_fieldsets`` will be removed.
* Instances of ``util.py`` in the Django codebase have been renamed to
``utils.py`` in an effort to unify all util and utils references.
The modules that provided backwards compatibility will be removed:
* ``django.contrib.admin.util``
* ``django.contrib.gis.db.backends.util``
* ``django.db.backends.util``
* ``django.forms.util``
* ``ModelAdmin.get_formsets`` will be removed.
* Remove the backward compatible shims introduced to rename the
``BaseMemcachedCache._get_memcache_timeout()`` method to
``get_backend_timeout()``.
* The ``--natural`` and ``-n`` options for :djadmin:`dumpdata` will be removed.
Use :djadminopt:`--natural-foreign` instead.
* The ``use_natural_keys`` argument for ``serializers.serialize()`` will be
removed. Use ``use_natural_foreign_keys`` instead.
* ``django.forms.get_declared_fields`` will be removed.
* The ``WSGIRequest.REQUEST`` property will be removed.
* The class ``django.utils.datastructures.MergeDict`` will be removed.
* The ``zh-cn`` and ``zh-tw`` language codes will be removed and have been
replaced by the ``zh-hans`` and ``zh-hant`` language code respectively.
* The internal ``django.utils.functional.memoize`` will be removed.
* ``django.core.cache.get_cache`` will be removed. Add suitable entries
to :setting:`CACHES` and use :data:`django.core.cache.caches` instead.
* ``django.db.models.loading`` will be removed. Use the new application
loading APIs instead. Several undocumented methods of the ``AppCache`` class
will also be removed.
2.0
---
* ``ssi`` and ``url`` template tags will be removed from the ``future`` template
tag library (used during the 1.3/1.4 deprecation period).