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Django 1.11.8 release notes
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*December 2, 2017*

Django 1.11.8 fixes several bugs in 1.11.7.

Bugfixes
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* Reallowed, following a regression in Django 1.10, ``AuthenticationForm`` to
  raise the inactive user error when using ``ModelBackend`` (:ticket:`28645`).

* Added support for ``QuerySet.values()`` and ``values_list()`` for
  ``union()``, ``difference()``, and ``intersection()`` queries
  (:ticket:`28781`).

* Fixed incorrect index name truncation when using a namespaced ``db_table``
  (:ticket:`28792`).

* Made ``QuerySet.iterator()`` use server-side cursors on PostgreSQL after
  ``values()`` and ``values_list()`` (:ticket:`28817`).

* Fixed crash on SQLite and MySQL when ordering by a filtered subquery that
  uses ``nulls_first`` or ``nulls_last`` (:ticket:`28848`).

* Made query lookups for ``CICharField``, ``CIEmailField``, and ``CITextField``
  use a ``citext`` cast (:ticket:`28702`).

* Fixed a regression in caching of a ``GenericForeignKey`` when the referenced
  model instance uses multi-table inheritance (:ticket:`28856`).

* Fixed "Cannot change column 'x': used in a foreign key constraint" crash on
  MySQL with a sequence of ``AlterField`` and/or ``RenameField`` operations in
  a migration (:ticket:`28305`).