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diff --git a/docs/releases/2.0.txt b/docs/releases/2.0.txt index 18d170aa1b..904597a033 100644 --- a/docs/releases/2.0.txt +++ b/docs/releases/2.0.txt @@ -349,6 +349,12 @@ of binary fields or HTTP streams, for example). You might have to update your code to limit bytestring usage to a minimum, as Django no longer accepts bytestrings in certain code paths. +For example, ``reverse()`` now uses ``str()`` instead of ``force_text()`` to +coerce the ``args`` and ``kwargs`` it receives, prior to their placement in +the URL. For bytestrings, this creates a string with an undesired ``b`` prefix +as well as additional quotes (``str(b'foo')`` is ``"b'foo'"``). To adapt, call +``decode()`` on the bytestring before passing it to ``reverse()``. + Database backend API -------------------- |