From bae3f8745589b09e0ea75fa463a5423546ca442c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Adri=C3=A1n=20Chaves?= <adrian@chaves.io>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 12:04:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Cover a backward-incompatible Request serialization change in
 the 2.6 release notes

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

diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index 5d92067b5..e4e2bce3c 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ Backward-incompatible changes
     meet expectations, :exc:`TypeError` is now raised at startup time. Before,
     other exceptions would be raised at run time. (:issue:`3559`)
 
+-   The ``_encoding`` field of serialized :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` objects
+    is now named ``encoding``, in line with all other fields (:issue:`5130`)
+
 
 Deprecation removals
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