Fixed #21649 -- Added optional invalidation of sessions when user password changes.

Thanks Paul McMillan, Aymeric Augustin, and Erik Romijn for reviews.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/middleware.txt b/docs/ref/middleware.txt
index 0898ca516a..f7a6768d3c 100644
--- a/docs/ref/middleware.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/middleware.txt
@@ -204,6 +204,15 @@ Adds the ``user`` attribute, representing the currently-logged-in user, to
 every incoming ``HttpRequest`` object. See :ref:`Authentication in Web requests
 <auth-web-requests>`.
 
+.. class:: SessionAuthenticationMiddleware
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.7
+
+Allows a user's sessions to be invalidated when their password changes. See
+:ref:`session-invalidation-on-password-change` for details. This middleware must
+appear after :class:`django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware`
+in :setting:`MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES`.
+
 CSRF protection middleware
 --------------------------