# HG changeset patch
# User Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
# Date 1618928323 -7200
# Node ID 035c06f9fddfc5a50e8434c5b9e86a74ca55362e
# Parent  65d18001cfbfac6864218465681ce24fb51c34b7
relnode: document the move to `zstd` as default compression

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10497

diff -r 65d18001cfbf -r 035c06f9fddf relnotes/next
--- a/relnotes/next	Tue Apr 20 16:12:19 2021 +0200
+++ b/relnotes/next	Tue Apr 20 16:18:43 2021 +0200
@@ -11,6 +11,16 @@
    for compression. The default is single threaded operation. Currently
    only supported for zstd.
 
+== Default Format Change ==
+
+These changes affects newly created repositories (or new clone) done with
+Mercurial 5.8.
+
+  * The `ZSTD` compression will now be used by default for new repositories
+    when available. This compression format was introduced in Mercurial 5.0,
+    released in May 2019. See `hg help config.format.revlog-compression` for
+    details.
+
 == New Experimental Features ==
 
  * There's a new `diff.merge` config option to show the changes