Fixed #25978 -- Deprecated shorcuts.render_to_response().

3 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
index d6123b6b53..56aa7adacf 100644
--- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ details on these changes.
 
 * The ``django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2`` module will be removed.
 
+* ``django.shortcuts.render_to_response()`` will be removed.
+
 .. _deprecation-removed-in-2.1:
 
 2.1
diff --git a/docs/releases/2.0.txt b/docs/releases/2.0.txt
index 818a8ada87..c4f65ec9ac 100644
--- a/docs/releases/2.0.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/2.0.txt
@@ -297,6 +297,10 @@ Miscellaneous
   ``'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2'``, though you can simplify that by
   using the ``'django.db.backends.postgresql'`` name added in Django 1.9.
 
+* ``django.shortcuts.render_to_response()`` is deprecated in favor of
+  :func:`django.shortcuts.render`. ``render()`` takes the same arguments
+  except that is also requires a ``request``.
+
 .. _removed-features-2.0:
 
 Features removed in 2.0
diff --git a/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt b/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt
index 705de11b69..51a39c88a1 100644
--- a/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt
@@ -86,9 +86,11 @@ This example is equivalent to::
 
 .. function:: render_to_response(template_name, context=None, content_type=None, status=None, using=None)
 
+   .. deprecated:: 2.0
+
    This function preceded the introduction of :func:`render` and works
    similarly except that it doesn't make the ``request`` available in the
-   response. It's not recommended and is likely to be deprecated in the future.
+   response.
 
 ``redirect()``
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