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| author | Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org> | 2014-06-09 21:24:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org> | 2014-06-10 08:42:31 +0200 |
| commit | df09d854828bcff56eb72f48ff1ba8fce7e90c90 (patch) | |
| tree | e76d45e66bc656a102587b9b4753cd7a4d4f2ae4 /docs/releases | |
| parent | fea8ccdcc4fa47ea1d494843624c92197b4f2153 (diff) | |
Fixed #17552 -- Removed a hack for IE6 and earlier.
It prevented the GZipMiddleware from compressing some data types even on
more recent version of IE where the corresponding bug was fixed.
Thanks Aaron Cannon for the report and Tim Graham for the review.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/releases')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.8.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt index 774d94d94d..26b9d37a88 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt @@ -273,6 +273,11 @@ Miscellaneous * Database connections are considered equal only if they're the same object. They aren't hashable any more. +* :class:`~django.middleware.gzip.GZipMiddleware` used to disable compression + for some content types when the request is from Internet Explorer, in order + to work around a bug in IE6 and earlier. This behavior could affect + performance on IE7 and later. It was removed. + * ``URLField.to_python`` no longer adds a trailing slash to pathless URLs. * ``django.contrib.gis`` dropped support for GEOS 3.1 and GDAL 1.6. |