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@@ -161,13 +161,20 @@ Minor features
* :class:`~django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordResetForm` now
has a method :meth:`~django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordResetForm.send_email`
that can be overridden to customize the mail to be sent.
+
* The ``max_length`` of :attr:`Permission.name
<django.contrib.auth.models.Permission.name>` has been increased from 50 to
255 characters. Please run the database migration.
+
* :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.CustomUser.USERNAME_FIELD` and
:attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.CustomUser.REQUIRED_FIELDS` now supports
:class:`~django.db.models.ForeignKey`\s.
+* The default iteration count for the PBKDF2 password hasher has been
+ increased by 33%. This backwards compatible change will not affect users who
+ have subclassed ``django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher`` to
+ change the default value.
+
:mod:`django.contrib.gis`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^