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@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ The following people have helped make REST framework great.
* Steve Gregory - [steve-gregory]
* Federico Capoano - [nemesisdesign]
* Bruno ReniƩ - [brutasse]
+* Kevin Stone - [kevinastone]
Many thanks to everyone who's contributed to the project.
@@ -223,3 +224,4 @@ You can also contact [@_tomchristie][twitter] directly on twitter.
[steve-gregory]: https://github.com/steve-gregory
[nemesisdesign]: https://github.com/nemesisdesign
[brutasse]: https://github.com/brutasse
+[kevinastone]: https://github.com/kevinastone
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### Master
+* Support proper 401 Unauthorized responses where appropriate, instead of always using 403 Forbidden.
* Support json encoding of timedelta objects.
* `format_suffix_patterns()` now supports `include` style URL patterns.
* Bugfix: Return proper validation errors when incorrect types supplied for relational fields.
* Bugfix: Support nullable FKs with `SlugRelatedField`.
* Bugfix: Don't call custom validation methods if the field has an error.
+**Note**: If the primary authentication class is `TokenAuthentication` or `BasicAuthentication`, a view will now correctly return 401 responses to unauthenticated access, with an appropriate `WWW-Authenticate` header, instead of 403 responses.
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### 2.1.16
**Date**: 14th Jan 2013