diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 93e64f9..324c6ff 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
    by removing all implicit session locking.
  * Fixed a bug that broke that Luminotes Desktop product download page if
    PayPal took too long to notify Luminotes of the purchase.
-   
 
 1.5.2: October 1, 2008
  * Leading/trailing spaces in note titles are now ignored when making links
diff --git a/controller/test/Test_controller.py b/controller/test/Test_controller.py
index 2373fad..0158a18 100644
--- a/controller/test/Test_controller.py
+++ b/controller/test/Test_controller.py
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ class Test_controller( object ):
         u"server.environment": "production",
         u"session_filter.on": True,
         u"session_filter.storage_type": u"ram",
-        u"session_filter.locking": "implicit",
         u"encoding_filter.on": True,
         u"encoding_filter.encoding": "utf-8",
         u"decoding_filter.on": True,