From 33793f7c3edd8ff144ff2e9434367267c20af26a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lindsley Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 19:31:16 -0700 Subject: Fixed #19934 - Use of Pillow is now preferred over PIL. This starts the deprecation period for PIL (support to end in 1.8). --- docs/internals/deprecation.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/internals') diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt index 862907b2a8..774de2a2fd 100644 --- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt +++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt @@ -365,6 +365,12 @@ these changes. * ``django.conf.urls.shortcut`` and ``django.views.defaults.shortcut`` will be removed. +* Support for the Python Imaging Library (PIL) module will be removed, as it + no longer appears to be actively maintained & does not work on Python 3. + You are advised to install `Pillow`_, which should be used instead. + +.. _`Pillow`: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow + * The following private APIs will be removed: - ``django.db.close_connection()`` -- cgit v1.3