From 1d1a85711d76278dd1fe2b8dac55724f8f278cb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Adri=C3=A1n=20Chaves?= <adrian@chaves.io>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:23:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] news.rst: cover start-item-related delay fix, reproducible in
 Scrapy 2.12

---
 docs/news.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index dc22b0f69..f3adc3355 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -80,6 +80,15 @@ New features
     (:issue:`740`, :issue:`1051`, :issue:`1443`, :issue:`3237`, :issue:`4467`,
     :issue:`5282`, :issue:`6715`)
 
+Bug fixes
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+-   Yielding an start item (i.e. from :meth:`~scrapy.Spider.yield_seeds` or an
+    equivalent) no longer delays the next iteration of starting requests and
+    items by up to 5 seconds.
+
+    (:issue:`6715`, :issue:`6729`)
+
 
 .. _release-2.12.0: