2.0 migration notes for mandatory mark-and-sweep

8 years ago · c82e2db891
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--- a/doc/release-notes-v2-0.rst
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@ -1077,6 +1077,11 @@ Other incompatible changes
  under version guarantees and may change in an incompatible fashion in even a
  minor release.

+* Memory management without mark-and-sweep is no longer supported; relying on
+  only refcounting was error prone because reference cycles or debugger use
+  could result in leaked garbage that would only get collected on heap
+  destruction.
+
 Known issues
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