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title: "Django 1.9.6 release notes"
version: 6.0
locale: en
source: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/releases/1.9.6/
canonical: https://djangodocs.dev/en/6.0/releases/1.9.6/
---
# Django 1.9.6 release notes

*May 2, 2016*

Django 1.9.6 fixes several bugs in 1.9.5.

## Bugfixes

- Added support for relative path redirects to the test client and to
  `SimpleTestCase.assertRedirects()` because Django 1.9 no longer converts
  redirects to absolute URIs ([#26428](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/26428)).
- Fixed `TimeField` microseconds round-tripping on MySQL and SQLite
  ([#26498](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/26498)).
- Prevented `makemigrations` from generating infinite migrations for a model
  field that references a `functools.partial` ([#26475](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/26475)).
- Fixed a regression where `SessionBase.pop()` returned `None` rather than
  raising a `KeyError` for nonexistent values ([#26520](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/26520)).
- Fixed a regression causing the cached template loader to crash when using
  template names starting with a dash ([#26536](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/26536)).
- Restored conversion of an empty string to null when saving values of
  `GenericIPAddressField` on SQLite and MySQL ([#26557](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/26557)).
- Fixed a `makemessages` regression where temporary `.py` extensions were
  leaked in source file paths ([#26341](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/26341)).