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authorMariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com>2021-01-14 10:27:04 +0100
committerMariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com>2021-01-14 17:50:04 +0100
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Refs #31842 -- Removed DEFAULT_HASHING_ALGORITHM transitional setting.
Per deprecation timeline.
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@@ -101,17 +101,17 @@ of this release <deprecated-jsonfield>`.
``DEFAULT_HASHING_ALGORITHM`` settings
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-The new :setting:`DEFAULT_HASHING_ALGORITHM` transitional setting allows
-specifying the default hashing algorithm to use for encoding cookies, password
-reset tokens in the admin site, user sessions, and signatures created by
+The new ``DEFAULT_HASHING_ALGORITHM`` transitional setting allows specifying
+the default hashing algorithm to use for encoding cookies, password reset
+tokens in the admin site, user sessions, and signatures created by
:class:`django.core.signing.Signer` and :meth:`django.core.signing.dumps`.
Support for SHA-256 was added in Django 3.1. If you are upgrading multiple
instances of the same project to Django 3.1, you should set
-:setting:`DEFAULT_HASHING_ALGORITHM` to ``'sha1'`` during the transition, in
-order to allow compatibility with the older versions of Django. Note that this
-requires Django 3.1.1+. Once the transition to 3.1 is complete you can stop
-overriding :setting:`DEFAULT_HASHING_ALGORITHM`.
+``DEFAULT_HASHING_ALGORITHM`` to ``'sha1'`` during the transition, in order to
+allow compatibility with the older versions of Django. Note that this requires
+Django 3.1.1+. Once the transition to 3.1 is complete you can stop overriding
+``DEFAULT_HASHING_ALGORITHM``.
This setting is deprecated as of this release, because support for tokens,
cookies, sessions, and signatures that use SHA-1 algorithm will be removed in