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@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ The undocumented, internally unused ``validate_integer()`` function is now
stricter as it validates using a regular expression instead of simply casting
the value using ``int()`` and checking if an exception was raised.
+Denial-of-service possibility in URL validation
+===============================================
+
+:class:`~django.core.validators.URLValidator` included a regular expression
+that was extremely slow to evaluate against certain invalid inputs. This regular
+expression has been simplified and optimized.
+
Bugfixes
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