Fixed #24564 -- Moved AbstractBaseUser and BaseUserManager so they can be used without auth in INSTALLED_APPS

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/releases/1.9.txt b/docs/releases/1.9.txt
index cceb0611b5..513177fff2 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.9.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.9.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ Minor features
 * The ``BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher`` will now update passwords if its
   ``rounds`` attribute is changed.
 
+* ``AbstractBaseUser`` and ``BaseUserManager`` were moved to a new
+  ``django.contrib.auth.base_user`` module so that they can be imported without
+  including ``django.contrib.auth`` in :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` (this raised
+  a deprecation warning in older versions and is no longer supported in
+  Django 1.9).
+
 :mod:`django.contrib.gis`
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt b/docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt
index cc7a326c23..9ca2e72b2d 100644
--- a/docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/auth/customizing.txt
@@ -586,6 +586,16 @@ password resets. You must then provide some key implementation details:
         identifies the user in an informal way. It may also return the same
         value as :meth:`django.contrib.auth.models.User.get_full_name()`.
 
+    .. admonition:: Importing ``AbstractBaseUser``
+
+        .. versionadded:: 1.9
+
+        ``AbstractBaseUser`` and ``BaseUserManager`` are importable from
+        ``django.contrib.auth.base_user`` so that they can be imported without
+        including ``django.contrib.auth`` in :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` (this
+        raised a deprecation warning in older versions and is no longer
+        supported in Django 1.9).
+
 The following methods are available on any subclass of
 :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractBaseUser`: