Refs #16508 -- Renamed the current "virtual" fields to "private".

The only reason why GenericForeignKey and GenericRelation are stored
separately inside _meta is that they need to be cloned for every model
subclass, but that's not true for any other virtual field. Actually,
it's only true for GenericRelation.

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
index d428f414f7..fee9c8cef7 100644
--- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
@@ -150,6 +150,12 @@ details on these changes.
 * Using ``User.is_authenticated()`` and ``User.is_anonymous()`` as methods
   will no longer be supported.
 
+* The private attribute ``virtual_fields`` of ``Model._meta`` will be removed.
+
+* The private keyword arguments ``virtual_only`` in
+  ``Field.contribute_to_class()`` and ``virtual`` in
+  ``Model._meta.add_field()`` will be removed.
+
 .. _deprecation-removed-in-1.10:
 
 1.10
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.10.txt b/docs/releases/1.10.txt
index 463cd4706e..c06602dc95 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.10.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.10.txt
@@ -921,6 +921,14 @@ Miscellaneous
 
 * The template ``Context.has_key()`` method is deprecated in favor of ``in``.
 
+* The private attribute ``virtual_fields`` of ``Model._meta`` is
+  deprecated in favor of ``private_fields``.
+
+* The private keyword arguments ``virtual_only`` in
+  ``Field.contribute_to_class()`` and ``virtual`` in
+  ``Model._meta.add_field()`` are deprecated in favor of ``private_only``
+  and ``private``, respectively.
+
 .. _removed-features-1.10:
 
 Features removed in 1.10