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Django 1.8 release notes - UNDER DEVELOPMENT
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============================================
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Welcome to Django 1.8!
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These release notes cover the `new features`_, as well as some `backwards
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incompatible changes`_ you'll want to be aware of when upgrading from Django
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1.6 or older versions. We've also dropped some features, which are detailed in
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:ref:`our deprecation plan <deprecation-removed-in-1.8>`, and we've `begun the
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deprecation process for some features`_.
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.. _`new features`: `What's new in Django 1.8`_
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.. _`backwards incompatible changes`: `Backwards incompatible changes in 1.8`_
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.. _`begun the deprecation process for some features`: `Features deprecated in 1.8`_
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Python compatibility
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====================
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Like Django 1.7, Django 1.8 requires Python 2.7 or above, though we
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**highly recommend** the latest minor release.
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What's new in Django 1.8
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========================
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...
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Minor features
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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:mod:`django.contrib.admin`
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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:mod:`django.contrib.auth`
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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:mod:`django.contrib.formtools`
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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:mod:`django.contrib.gis`
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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:mod:`django.contrib.messages`
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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:mod:`django.contrib.redirects`
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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:mod:`django.contrib.sessions`
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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:mod:`django.contrib.sitemaps`
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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:mod:`django.contrib.sites`
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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:mod:`django.contrib.staticfiles`
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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:mod:`django.contrib.syndication`
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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Cache
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^^^^^
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* ...
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Email
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^^^^^
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* :ref:`Email backends <topic-email-backends>` now support the context manager
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protocol for opening and closing connections.
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File Storage
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^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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File Uploads
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^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Forms
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^^^^^
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* Form widgets now render attributes with a value of ``True`` or ``False``
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as HTML5 boolean attributes.
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* The new :meth:`~django.forms.Form.has_error()` method allows checking
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if a specific error has happened.
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* If :attr:`~django.forms.Form.required_css_class` is defined on a form, then
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the ``<label>`` tags for required fields will have this class present in its
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attributes.
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Internationalization
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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Management Commands
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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* :djadmin:`dumpdata` now has the option :djadminopt:`--output` which allows
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specifying the file to which the serialized data is written.
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Models
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^^^^^^
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* ...
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Signals
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^^^^^^^
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Templates
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^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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Requests and Responses
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Tests
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^^^^^
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* The ``count`` argument was added to
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:meth:`~django.test.SimpleTestCase.assertTemplateUsed`. This allows you to
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assert that a template was rendered a specific number of times.
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Validators
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^^^^^^^^^^
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* ...
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Backwards incompatible changes in 1.8
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=====================================
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.. warning::
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In addition to the changes outlined in this section, be sure to review the
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:doc:`deprecation plan </internals/deprecation>` for any features that
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have been removed. If you haven't updated your code within the
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deprecation timeline for a given feature, its removal may appear as a
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backwards incompatible change.
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* Some operations on related objects such as
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:meth:`~django.db.models.fields.related.RelatedManager.add()` or
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:ref:`direct assignment<direct-assignment>` ran multiple data modifying
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queries without wrapping them in transactions. To reduce the risk of data
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corruption, all data modifying methods that affect multiple related objects
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(i.e. ``add()``, ``remove()``, ``clear()``, and
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:ref:`direct assignment<direct-assignment>`) now perform their data modifying
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queries from within a transaction, provided your database supports
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transactions.
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This has one backwards incompatible side effect, signal handlers triggered
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from these methods are now executed within the method's transaction and
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any exception in a signal handler will prevent the whole operation.
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Miscellaneous
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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* ``URLField.to_python`` no longer adds a trailing slash to pathless URLs.
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* ``django.contrib.gis`` dropped support for GEOS 3.1 and GDAL 1.6.
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.. _deprecated-features-1.8:
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Features deprecated in 1.8
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==========================
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Loading ``cycle`` and ``firstof`` template tags from ``future`` library
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Django 1.6 introduced ``{% load cycle from future %}`` and
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``{% load firstof from future %}`` syntax for forward compatibility of the
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:ttag:`cycle` and :ttag:`firstof` template tags. This syntax is now deprecated
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and will be removed in Django 2.0. You can simply remove the
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``{% load ... from future %}`` tags.
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``django.conf.urls.patterns()``
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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In the olden days of Django, it was encouraged to reference views as strings
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in ``urlpatterns``::
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urlpatterns = patterns('',
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url('^$', 'myapp.views.myview'),
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)
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and Django would magically import ``myapp.views.myview`` internally and turn
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the string into a real function reference. In order to reduce repetition when
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referencing many views from the same module, the ``patterns()`` function takes
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a required initial ``prefix`` argument which is prepended to all
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views-as-strings in that set of ``urlpatterns``::
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urlpatterns = patterns('myapp.views',
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url('^$', 'myview'),
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url('^other/$', 'otherview'),
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)
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In the modern era, we have updated the tutorial to instead recommend importing
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your views module and referencing your view functions (or classes) directly.
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This has a number of advantages, all deriving from the fact that we are using
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normal Python in place of "Django String Magic": the errors when you mistype a
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view name are less obscure, IDEs can help with autocompletion of view names,
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etc.
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So these days, the above use of the ``prefix`` arg is much more likely to be
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written (and is better written) as::
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from myapp import views
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urlpatterns = patterns('',
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url('^$', views.myview),
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url('^other/$', views.otherview),
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)
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Thus ``patterns()`` serves little purpose and is a burden when teaching new users
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(answering the newbie's question "why do I need this empty string as the first
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argument to ``patterns()``?"). For these reasons, we are deprecating it.
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Updating your code is as simple as ensuring that ``urlpatterns`` is a list of
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:func:`django.conf.urls.url` instances. For example::
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from django.conf.urls import url
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from myapp import views
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urlpatterns = [
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url('^$', views.myview),
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url('^other/$', views.otherview),
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]
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``django.test.SimpleTestCase.urls``
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The attribute :attr:`SimpleTestCase.urls <django.test.SimpleTestCase.urls>`
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for specifying URLconf configuration in tests has been deprecated and will be
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removed in Django 2.0. Use :func:`@override_settings(ROOT_URLCONF=...)
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<django.test.override_settings>` instead.
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``prefix`` argument to :func:`~django.conf.urls.i18n.i18n_patterns`
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Related to the previous item, the ``prefix`` argument to
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:func:`django.conf.urls.i18n.i18n_patterns` has been deprecated. Simply pass a
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list of :func:`django.conf.urls.url` instances instead.
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Using an incorrect count of unpacked values in the :ttag:`for` template tag
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Using an incorrect count of unpacked values in :ttag:`for` tag will raise an
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exception rather than fail silently in Django 2.0.
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