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-rw-r--r--docs/releases/1.7.1.txt5
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt
index e2b2f2d9c7..6c380dd2c3 100644
--- a/docs/ref/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES
Default: ``{}`` (Empty dictionary)
A dictionary mapping ``"app_label.model_name"`` strings to functions that take
-a model object and return its URL. This is a way of overriding
+a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding
``get_absolute_url()`` methods on a per-installation basis. Example::
ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ a model object and return its URL. This is a way of overriding
Note that the model name used in this setting should be all lower-case, regardless
of the case of the actual model class name.
+.. versionchanged:: 1.7.1
+
+ ``ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES`` now works on models that don't declare
+ ``get_absolute_url()``.
+
.. setting:: ADMINS
ADMINS
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.1.txt b/docs/releases/1.7.1.txt
index 368749f595..46a19f1f6d 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.7.1.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.7.1.txt
@@ -26,3 +26,8 @@ Bugfixes
* Fixed a typo in an ``inlineformset_factory()`` error message that caused a
crash (:ticket:`23451`).
+
+* Restored the ability to use :setting:`ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES` with the
+ ``'auth.User'`` model (:ticket:`11775`). As a side effect, the setting now
+ adds a ``get_absolute_url()`` method to any model that appears in
+ ``ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES`` but doesn't define ``get_absolute_url()``.