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

where we refer to the "weak_identity_map" option, and add additional
exposition in the session documentation which refers to it.
fixes #3517

:meth:`.Session.begin_nested` operations would fail to propagate
the "dirty" flag for an object that had been updated within
the inner savepoint, such that if the enclosing savepoint were
rolled back, the object would not be part of the state that was
expired and therefore reverted to its database state.
fixes #3352

commit phase of the session, which without it could cause
a "dictionary changed size during iter" error if garbage collection
interacted within the process.   Change was introduced by

attached to session X" would fail to prevent the object from
also being attached to the new session, in the case that execution
continued after the error raise occurred.
fixes #3301

an ``after_rollback()`` handler for a :class:`.Session` incorrectly
adds state to that :class:`.Session` within the handler, and the task
to warn and remove this state (established by :ticket:`2389`) attempts
to proceed.
fixes #3309