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@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ Release notes
 Scrapy 1.3.0 (2016-12-XX)
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+This release comes rather soon after 1.2.2 for one main reason:
+it was found out that releases since 0.18 up to 1.2.2 (included) use
+some backported code from Twisted, even if newer Twisted modules are available.
+Scrapy now uses ``twisted.web.client`` and ``twisted.internet.endpoints`` directly.
+
+As it is a major change, we wanted to get the bug fix out quickly
+while not breaking any projects using the 1.2 series.
+
 New Features
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