Stopped stripping microseconds with MySQL backend

Refs #19716.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
index e5d3282874..b37676008b 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
@@ -160,6 +160,14 @@ Cache
 * The ``incr()`` method of the
   ``django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache`` backend is now thread-safe.
 
+Database backends
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+* The MySQL backend no longer strips microseconds from ``datetime`` values as
+  MySQL 5.6.4 and up supports fractional seconds depending on the declaration
+  of the datetime field (when ``DATETIME`` includes fractional precision greater
+  than 0).
+
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