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authorJacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org>2010-03-01 19:49:05 +0000
committerJacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org>2010-03-01 19:49:05 +0000
commitc8015052d935a99a5c8f96434b2d0cd16d8a4e14 (patch)
tree19c5154c8e84cfafa0781d11fd0b8a187648fd43 /docs/releases
parent647651698fb84d864f911db15503f77acdd0cbf0 (diff)
Fixed #5786: relaxed the validation for usernames to allow more common characters '@', etc.
This is really just a stop-gap until we come up with a improved way of handling disparate auth data, but it should help us stretch a bit more milage out of the current system. Thanks to alextreme, lbruno, and clayg. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@12634 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -742,3 +742,10 @@ views in your :ref:`URLconf <topics-http-urls>`. This means that you can
maintain complete control over the URL structure of your feeds. Like any other view, feeds views are passed a ``request`` object, so you can
do anything you would normally do with a view, like user based access control,
or making a feed a named URL.
+
+Relaxed requirements for usernames
+----------------------------------
+
+The built-in :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` model's
+:attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.username` field now allows a wider range
+of characters, including ``@``, ``+``, ``.`` and ``-`` characters.