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20922	Allow customizing the serializer used by contrib.sessions	gwahl@…	Tim Graham	"The `django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies` session backend should be written in a way that allows subclasses to use their own serializer implementation. This will allow using JSON instead of Pickle to serialize sessions.

For background, see #20444 and https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/YwlZ9m9k1bE/discussion."	New feature	closed	contrib.sessions	1.5	Release blocker	fixed			Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0