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authorRussell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com>2011-09-10 00:47:00 +0000
committerRussell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com>2011-09-10 00:47:00 +0000
commit5f287f75f2277ba821dcf5c444ab12d8eff6cce3 (patch)
treef665fe5b63d6969753ba90080728fc23bd767279 /docs/internals
parent33076af6f2aa5285b3a70246e14163b901b512f7 (diff)
Altered the behavior of URLField to avoid a potential DOS vector, and to avoid potential leakage of local filesystem data. A security announcement will be made shortly.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16760 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -115,6 +115,11 @@ their deprecation, as per the :ref:`deprecation policy
beyond that of a simple ``TextField`` since the removal of oldforms.
All uses of ``XMLField`` can be replaced with ``TextField``.
+ * ``django.db.models.fields.URLField.verify_exists`` has been
+ deprecated due to intractable security and performance
+ issues. Validation behavior has been removed in 1.4, and the
+ argument will be removed in 1.5.
+
1.5
---