Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#18302 closed Bug (invalid)

1.4 cache session storage is not backward compatible

Reported by: slymsg@… Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: 1.4
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

I just updated from 1.3 to 1.4 using
django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache
and my sessions were lost.

Apparently the cache backend in 1.4 uses an
extra prefix to store the session_key in the cache:

KEY_PREFIX = "django.contrib.sessions.cache"

Since this prefix cannot be configured from the
settings, I had to create a new cache session backend
based on the 1.4 version, setting KEY_PREFIX to "".

I cannot find anything about this change in the
changelogs. Did I miss something?

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Luke Plant, 12 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

It was a change in 1.3.1 - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.3.1/

According to those notes, we didn't consider it backwards incompatible since sessions are meant to be transient. In addition, you shouldn't have been upgrading from 1.3 to 1.4 - you should have been using 1.3.1 as soon as it was released since it was a security release.

For those reasons I'm going to mark INVALID.

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