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<h1>Adding API change notes<a class="headerlink" href="#adding-api-change-notes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Please place new portions of <code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">api_changes.rst</span></code> in the
<code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">next_api_changes</span></code> directory.</p>
<p>When adding an entry please look at the currently existing files to
see if you can extend any of them.  If you create a file, name it
<code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">what_api_changes.rst</span></code> (ex <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">deprecated_rcparams.rst</span></code>) with
contents following the form:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">Brief</span> <span class="n">description</span> <span class="n">of</span> <span class="n">change</span>
<span class="o">---------------------------</span>

<span class="n">Long</span> <span class="n">description</span> <span class="n">of</span> <span class="n">change</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">justification</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="ow">and</span> <span class="n">work</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">arounds</span> <span class="n">to</span>
<span class="n">maintain</span> <span class="n">old</span> <span class="n">behavior</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="k">if</span> <span class="nb">any</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>If you need more heading levels, please use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">~~~~</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">++++</span></code>.</p>
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