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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md
index 1795cfaf..59afc2b9 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ If successfully authenticated, `SessionAuthentication` provides the following cr
Unauthenticated responses that are denied permission will result in an `HTTP 403 Forbidden` response.
-If you're using an AJAX style API with SessionAuthentication, you'll need to make sure you include a valid CSRF token for any "unsafe" HTTP method calls, such as `PUT`, `POST` or `DELETE` requests. See the [Django CSRF documentation][csrf-ajax] for more details.
+If you're using an AJAX style API with SessionAuthentication, you'll need to make sure you include a valid CSRF token for any "unsafe" HTTP method calls, such as `PUT`, `PATCH`, `POST` or `DELETE` requests. See the [Django CSRF documentation][csrf-ajax] for more details.
# Custom authentication
@@ -190,9 +190,9 @@ Typically the approach you should take is:
* If authentication is not attempted, return `None`. Any other authentication schemes also in use will still be checked.
* If authentication is attempted but fails, raise a `AuthenticationFailed` exception. An error response will be returned immediately, without checking any other authentication schemes.
-You *may* also override the `.authentication_header(self, request)` method. If implemented, it should return a string that will be used as the value of the `WWW-Authenticate` header in a `HTTP 401 Unauthorized` response.
+You *may* also override the `.authenticate_header(self, request)` method. If implemented, it should return a string that will be used as the value of the `WWW-Authenticate` header in a `HTTP 401 Unauthorized` response.
-If the `.authentication_header()` method is not overridden, the authentication scheme will return `HTTP 403 Forbidden` responses when an unauthenticated request is denied access.
+If the `.authenticate_header()` method is not overridden, the authentication scheme will return `HTTP 403 Forbidden` responses when an unauthenticated request is denied access.
## Example
diff --git a/docs/api-guide/requests.md b/docs/api-guide/requests.md
index 72932f5d..39a34fcf 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/requests.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/requests.md
@@ -83,13 +83,13 @@ You won't typically need to access this property.
# Browser enhancements
-REST framework supports a few browser enhancements such as browser-based `PUT` and `DELETE` forms.
+REST framework supports a few browser enhancements such as browser-based `PUT`, `PATCH` and `DELETE` forms.
## .method
`request.method` returns the **uppercased** string representation of the request's HTTP method.
-Browser-based `PUT` and `DELETE` forms are transparently supported.
+Browser-based `PUT`, `PATCH` and `DELETE` forms are transparently supported.
For more information see the [browser enhancements documentation].
diff --git a/docs/api-guide/views.md b/docs/api-guide/views.md
index d1e42ec1..574020f9 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/views.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/views.md
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ The following methods are called before dispatching to the handler method.
## Dispatch methods
The following methods are called directly by the view's `.dispatch()` method.
-These perform any actions that need to occur before or after calling the handler methods such as `.get()`, `.post()`, `put()` and `.delete()`.
+These perform any actions that need to occur before or after calling the handler methods such as `.get()`, `.post()`, `put()`, `patch()` and `.delete()`.
### .initial(self, request, \*args, **kwargs)