Fixed #23613 -- Deprecated django.utils.checksums

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
index 6085117b93..3a7c17b388 100644
--- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ about each item can often be found in the release notes of two versions prior.
 
 * ``django.db.models.field.subclassing.SubfieldBase`` will be removed.
 
+* ``django.utils.checksums`` will be removed; its functionality is included
+  in django-localflavor 1.1+.
+
 .. _deprecation-removed-in-1.9:
 
 1.9
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
index d430a4af45..41907634b2 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
@@ -829,3 +829,13 @@ in ``.values()`` calls or in aggregates. It has been replaced with
 :meth:`~django.db.models.Field.from_db_value`. Note that the new approach does
 not call the :meth:`~django.db.models.Field.to_python` method on assignment
 as was the case with ``SubfieldBase``.
+
+``django.utils.checksums``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The ``django.utils.checksums`` module has been deprecated and will be removed
+in Django 2.0. The functionality it provided (validating checksum using the
+Luhn algorithm) was undocumented and not used in Django. The module has been
+moved to the `django-localflavor`_ package (version 1.1+).
+
+.. _django-localflavor: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-localflavor