Merge pull request #991 from CDLUC3/develop

Merge Develop to the main branch

Author: jsjiang

settings/settings.py.j2

@@ -349,7 +349,8 @@ NEWSFEED_POLLING_INTERVAL = 1800
 
 SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 7 * 24 * 60 * 60
 SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE = True
-SESSION_SERIALIZER = 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer'
+SESSION_SERIALIZER = 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer'
+SESSION_ENGINE = "django.contrib.sessions.backends.db"
 SESSION_COOKIE_PATH = '/'
 
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settings/tests.py

@@ -345,7 +345,8 @@
 
 SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 7 * 24 * 60 * 60
 SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE = True
-SESSION_SERIALIZER = 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer'
+SESSION_SERIALIZER = 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer'
+SESSION_ENGINE = "django.contrib.sessions.backends.db"
 SESSION_COOKIE_PATH = '/'
 
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