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+## What's new:
+
+From now on we keep track of changes in the CHANGELOG.md. 
+If you want your changes to show up there follow the [guidelines](#gl).
+In particular tag your commits by the [gitchangelog](https://github.com/vaab/gitchangelog) commit message format. 
+
 ## Contributing to GPy
 
 We welcome any contributions to GPy, after all it is an open source project. We use the GitHub feature of pull requests for contributions.