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 1.5.0 (in development)
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+This long overdue release of beets includes far too many exciting and useful
+features than could ever be satisfactorily enumerated.
+As a technical detail, it also introduces two new external libraries:
+`MediaFile`_ and `Confuse`_ used to be part of beets but are now reusable
+dependencies---packagers, please take note.
+Finally, this is the last version of beets where we intend to support Python
+2.x; future releases will soon require Python 3.5.
+
 New features:
 
 * :doc:`/plugins/mpdstats`: Add strip_path option to help build the right local path