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@@ -1140,6 +1140,11 @@ Default content type to use for all ``HttpResponse`` objects, if a MIME type
isn't manually specified. Used with :setting:`DEFAULT_CHARSET` to construct
the ``Content-Type`` header.
+.. deprecated:: 2.0
+
+ This setting is deprecated because it doesn't interact well with
+ third-party apps and is obsolete since HTML5 has mostly superseded XHTML.
+
.. setting:: DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER
``DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER``