From 559b4edaec9b0b73376178427e2684f25b7d78c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elias Dorneles <eliasdorneles@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:42:50 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] update release notes with changes from #1581

---
 docs/news.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index 450ab5542..0876695be 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Bug fixes
 - DefaultRequestHeaders middleware now runs before UserAgent middleware
   (:issue:`2088`). **Warning: this is technically backwards incompatible**,
   though we consider this a bug fix.
+- HTTP cache extension and plugins that use the ``.scrapy`` data directory now
+  work outside projects (:issue:`1581`).  **Warning: this is technically
+  backwards incompatible**, though we consider this a bug fix.
 - ``Selector`` does not allow passing both ``response`` and ``text`` anymore
   (:issue:`2153`).
 - Fixed logging of wrong callback name with ``scrapy parse`` (:issue:`2169`).