This is the directory for news snippets used by towncrier: https://github.com/twisted/towncrier When changing code in a way that's visible to an end user please make a new file in this directory. It will be removed and integrated into release notes document upon a release of a new version of Barrier. towncrier has a few standard types of news fragments, signified by the file extension. These are: .feature: Signifying a new feature. .bugfix: Signifying a bug fix. .doc: Signifying a documentation improvement. .removal: Signifying a deprecation or removal of public API.