Deprecated current_app in TemplateResponse and render(_to_response).

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
index a1d4c3a563..a6a315cc88 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
@@ -2628,11 +2628,16 @@ a pattern for your new view.
 .. note::
 
     Any view you render that uses the admin templates, or extends the base
-    admin template, should provide the ``current_app`` argument to
-    :class:`~django.template.RequestContext` or
-    :class:`~django.template.Context` when rendering the template.  It should
-    be set to either ``self.name`` if your view is on an ``AdminSite`` or
-    ``self.admin_site.name`` if your view is on a ``ModelAdmin``.
+    admin template, should set ``request.current_app`` before rendering the
+    template. It should be set to either ``self.name`` if your view is on an
+    ``AdminSite`` or ``self.admin_site.name`` if your view is on a
+    ``ModelAdmin``.
+
+    .. versionchanged:: 1.8
+
+       In previous versions of Django, you had to provide the ``current_app``
+       argument to :class:`~django.template.RequestContext` or
+       :class:`~django.template.Context` when rendering the template.
 
 .. _auth_password_reset:
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/template-response.txt b/docs/ref/template-response.txt
index bfee0e29af..3f7572b557 100644
--- a/docs/ref/template-response.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/template-response.txt
@@ -182,6 +182,11 @@ Methods
         :ref:`namespaced URL resolution strategy <topics-http-reversing-url-namespaces>`
         for more information.
 
+        .. deprecated:: 1.8
+
+           The ``current_app`` argument is deprecated. Instead you should set
+           ``request.current_app``.
+
     ``charset``
         The charset in which the response will be encoded. If not given it will
         be extracted from ``content_type``, and if that is unsuccessful, the