diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/branch-author-selection-02d8652d12c4dd7a.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/branch-author-selection-02d8652d12c4dd7a.yaml
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+---
+features:
+  - |
+    A new ``gitreview.branchauthor`` option allows configuring the change
+    author (owner) name part of the autocreated branch name when downloading
+    changes.
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/commit-hook-submodules-121f76901305ff98.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/commit-hook-submodules-121f76901305ff98.yaml
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+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    The Change-Id generating commit hook is now installed into any detected Git
+    submodules, so that it will take effect when creating changes within a
+    submodule and not just in the parent repository.
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/default-notopic-3f854006482616cd.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/default-notopic-3f854006482616cd.yaml
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+---
+features:
+  - |
+    A new ``gitreview.notopic`` configuration setting makes git-review always
+    behave as if the ``--notopic`` command line option was supplied.
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/discontinue-draft-support-031e1fe3453ca839.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/discontinue-draft-support-031e1fe3453ca839.yaml
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+---
+deprecations:
+  - |
+    Not really a deprecation so much as a removal, Gerrit 2.15 (released in
+    2017) ceased providing a draft state for changes, and many large sites were
+    disabling support for it far earlier than that. As of now, git-review has
+    removed the ``-D`` and ``--draft`` options entirely, and so can no longer
+    push draft changes on old Gerrit deployments which still allowed them.
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/drop-python27-support-37e1602a03d602ab.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/drop-python27-support-37e1602a03d602ab.yaml
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+---
+critical:
+  - |
+    As of this release, git-review no longer supports running under the Python
+    2.7 interpreter. The major version component has been increased
+    accordingly. Users wishing to use git-review with Python 2.7 can cap their
+    installations like ``pip install "git-review<2"``, though pip version 9 and
+    later will use python_requires package metadata to avoid installing
+    git-review on an unsupported interpreter. Future removal of support for
+    Python 3 minor versions will only result in a minor version increase for
+    corresponding git-review releases.
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/git-credentials-bytes-6fcecd405dc4ed29.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/git-credentials-bytes-6fcecd405dc4ed29.yaml
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+++ b/releasenotes/notes/git-credentials-bytes-6fcecd405dc4ed29.yaml
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+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    Encoding was corrected for Git credentials, which was previously causing
+    HTTP authentication to fail under some Python 3 versions.
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/preserve-local-edits-on-download-0f11c676e5516d9f.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/preserve-local-edits-on-download-0f11c676e5516d9f.yaml
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+++ b/releasenotes/notes/preserve-local-edits-on-download-0f11c676e5516d9f.yaml
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+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    Change download functions now preserve any unapplied local edits on the
+    branch when attempting to reset the worktree.
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/push-no-follow-tags-3f366ecee85b508d.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/push-no-follow-tags-3f366ecee85b508d.yaml
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+++ b/releasenotes/notes/push-no-follow-tags-3f366ecee85b508d.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    The ``--no-follow-tags`` option to ``git push`` is now used for all pushes,
+    so that git-review won't error when encountering a local tag which is
+    absent from Gerrit.