From 97a0fed020926af464631d31bdfb354a12aea8c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Adri=C3=A1n=20Chaves?= <adrian@chaves.io>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:27:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Document the execution order change of non-generator
 start_requests, for the sake of completion

---
 docs/news.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index fd77fb6b2..eb7ecf8d5 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ Backward-incompatible changes
 -   In ``scrapy.core.spidermw.SpiderMiddlewareManager``,
     ``process_start_requests()`` has been replaced by ``process_start()``.
 
+-   The now-deprecated ``start_requests()`` method, when it returns an iterable
+    instead of being defined as a generator, is now executed *after* the
+    :ref:`scheduler <topics-scheduler>` instance has been created.
+
 Deprecations
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~