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diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
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--- a/docs/conf.py
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@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ copyright = '%s, Agendaless Consulting' % datetime.datetime.now().year
#
# The short X.Y version.
version = '1.3a2'
+
# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
release = version
diff --git a/docs/whatsnew-1.3.rst b/docs/whatsnew-1.3.rst
index 12132e7fd..53ab8e91d 100644
--- a/docs/whatsnew-1.3.rst
+++ b/docs/whatsnew-1.3.rst
@@ -101,6 +101,16 @@ actually recommended if you rely on proxying from Apache or Nginx to a
``pserve`` -invoked application. **The wsgiref server is not a production
quality server.** See :ref:`alternate_wsgi_server` for more information.
+.. warning::
+
+ Previously, paste.httpserver "helped" by converting header values that weren't
+ strings to strings. The wsgiref server, on the other hand implements the spec
+ more fully. This specifically may affect you if you are modifying headers on
+ your response. The following error might be an indicator of this problem:
+ **AssertionError: Header values must be strings, please check the type of
+ the header being returned.** A common case would be returning unicode headers
+ instead of string headers.
+
A new :mod:`pyramid.compat` module was added which provides Python 2/3
straddling support for Pyramid add-ons and development environments.