Made ModelForms raise ImproperlyConfigured if the list of fields is not specified.

Also applies to modelform(set)_factory and generic model views.

refs #19733.

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/mixins-editing.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/mixins-editing.txt
index dbe1c91547..cfa343c937 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/mixins-editing.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/mixins-editing.txt
@@ -129,15 +129,18 @@ ModelFormMixin
 
     .. attribute:: fields
 
-        .. versionadded:: 1.6
-
         A list of names of fields. This is interpreted the same way as the
         ``Meta.fields`` attribute of :class:`~django.forms.ModelForm`.
 
         This is a required attribute if you are generating the form class
         automatically (e.g. using ``model``). Omitting this attribute will
-        result in all fields being used, but this behavior is deprecated
-        and will be removed in Django 1.8.
+        result in an :exc:`~django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured`
+        exception.
+
+        .. versionchanged:: 1.8
+
+            Previously, omitting this attribute was allowed and resulted in
+            a form with all fields of the model.
 
     .. attribute:: success_url
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/models.txt b/docs/ref/forms/models.txt
index 1d2b468553..9700c1ed38 100644
--- a/docs/ref/forms/models.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/forms/models.txt
@@ -34,16 +34,16 @@ Model Form Functions
 
     See :ref:`modelforms-factory` for example usage.
 
-    .. versionchanged:: 1.6
-
     You must provide the list of fields explicitly, either via keyword arguments
     ``fields`` or ``exclude``, or the corresponding attributes on the form's
     inner ``Meta`` class. See :ref:`modelforms-selecting-fields` for more
-    information. Omitting any definition of the fields to use will result in all
-    fields being used, but this behavior is deprecated.
+    information. Omitting any definition of the fields to use will result in
+    an :exc:`~django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured` exception.
+
+    .. versionchanged:: 1.8
 
-    The ``localized_fields``, ``labels``, ``help_texts``, and
-    ``error_messages`` parameters were added.
+        Previously, omitting the list of fields was allowed and resulted in
+        a form with all fields of the model.
 
 .. function:: modelformset_factory(model, form=ModelForm, formfield_callback=None, formset=BaseModelFormSet, extra=1, can_delete=False, can_order=False, max_num=None, fields=None, exclude=None, widgets=None, validate_max=False, localized_fields=None, labels=None, help_texts=None, error_messages=None)