- establish make_transient and make_transient_to_detached as special-use,
advanced use only functions
- list all conditions under make_transient() under which an attribute
will not be loaded and establish that make_transient() does not attempt
to load all attributes before detaching the object from its
session, fixes #3640

unambiguous tracking of all object lifecycle state transitions
in terms of the :class:`.Session` itself, e.g. pending,
transient,  persistent, detached.   The state of the object
within each event is also defined.
fixes #2677
- Added a new session lifecycle state :term:`deleted`.  This new state
represents an object that has been deleted from the :term:`persistent`
state and will move to the :term:`detached` state once the transaction
is committed.  This resolves the long-standing issue that objects
which were deleted existed in a gray area between persistent and
detached.   The :attr:`.InstanceState.persistent` accessor will
**no longer** report on a deleted object as persistent; the
:attr:`.InstanceState.deleted` accessor will instead be True for
these objects, until they become detached.
- The :paramref:`.Session.weak_identity_map` parameter is deprecated.
See the new recipe at :ref:`session_referencing_behavior` for
an event-based approach to maintaining strong identity map behavior.
references #3517

- rewrite the multiple mappers section