# HG changeset patch
# User Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@logilab.fr>
# Date 1382105063 -7200
# Node ID 84ff860a966b7b89fa71447914b97d8f542afece
# Parent  5f10cd13224d8bd6f56a33103c7486c08ab0af15
[doc] document changed attribute default value storage

diff -r 5f10cd13224d -r 84ff860a966b doc/3.18.rst
--- a/doc/3.18.rst	Mon Sep 16 11:58:40 2013 +0200
+++ b/doc/3.18.rst	Fri Oct 18 16:04:23 2013 +0200
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
   systematically deferred to an operation, instead of a) trying in a
   hook and b) if it failed, retrying later in an operation
 
+* The default value storage for attributes is no longer String, but
+  Bytes.  This opens the road to storing arbitrary python objects, e.g.
+  numpy arrays, and fixes a bug where default values whose truth value
+  was False were not properly migrated.
 
 Deprecation
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