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+title: Release 0.49
+short-description: Release notes for 0.49 (preliminary)
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+
+# New features
+
+This page is a placeholder for the eventual release notes.
+
+Notable new features should come with release note updates. This is
+done by creating a file snippet called `snippets/featurename.md` and
+whose contents should look like this:
+
+    ## Feature name
+
+    A short description explaining the new feature and how it should be used.
+