- Added the ``pyramid.renderers.null_renderer`` object as an API. The null

  renderer is an object that can be used in advanced integration cases as
  input to the view configuration ``renderer=`` argument.  When the null
  renderer is used as a view renderer argument, Pyramid avoids converting the
  view callable result into a Response object.  This is useful if you want to
  reuse the view configuration and lookup machinery outside the context of
  its use by the Pyramid router.  This feature was added for consumption by
  the ``pyramid_rpc`` package, which uses view configuration and lookup
  outside the context of a router in exactly this way.  ``pyramid_rpc`` has
  been broken under 1.1 since 1.1b1; adding it allows us to make it work
  again.

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diff --git a/docs/api/renderers.rst b/docs/api/renderers.rst
index c13694219..15670c46e 100644
--- a/docs/api/renderers.rst
+++ b/docs/api/renderers.rst
@@ -13,3 +13,12 @@
 
 .. autoclass:: JSONP
 
+.. attribute:: null_renderer
+
+   An object that can be used in advanced integration cases as input to the
+   view configuration ``renderer=`` argument.  When the null renderer is used
+   as a view renderer argument, Pyramid avoids converting the view callable
+   result into a Response object.  This is useful if you want to reuse the
+   view configuration and lookup machinery outside the context of its use by
+   the Pyramid router (e.g. the package named ``pyramid_rpc`` does this).
+