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authorDaniel Lindsley <daniel@toastdriven.com>2013-05-14 19:31:16 -0700
committerDaniel Lindsley <daniel@toastdriven.com>2013-05-14 19:32:04 -0700
commit33793f7c3edd8ff144ff2e9434367267c20af26a (patch)
tree2fc05d98ee3d9c2bb9fd9a208647ad280d52b78c /docs/internals
parentc792c83cad54f064b6ba13e285e95a90e2c61f09 (diff)
Fixed #19934 - Use of Pillow is now preferred over PIL.
This starts the deprecation period for PIL (support to end in 1.8).
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@@ -365,6 +365,12 @@ these changes.
* ``django.conf.urls.shortcut`` and ``django.views.defaults.shortcut`` will 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.close_connection()``