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diff --git a/docs/howto/upgrade-version.txt b/docs/howto/upgrade-version.txt index 8777f433f9..fd018d4342 100644 --- a/docs/howto/upgrade-version.txt +++ b/docs/howto/upgrade-version.txt @@ -89,3 +89,11 @@ Deployment When you are sufficiently confident your app works with the new version of Django, you're ready to go ahead and :doc:`deploy </howto/deployment/index>` your upgraded Django project. + +If you are using caching provided by Django, you should consider clearing your +cache after upgrading. Otherwise you may run into problems, for example, if you +are caching pickled objects as these objects are not guaranteed to be +pickle-compatible across Django versions. A past instance of incompatibility +was caching pickled :class:`~django.http.HttpResponse` objects, either +directly or indirectly via the :func:`~django.views.decorators.cache.cache_page` +decorator. |