Please follow these guidelines when making a Pull Request. This template was adapted from here and here.
Describe your changes in detail.
Why is this change required? What problem does it solve? If it fixes an open issue, please link to the issue here.
What kind of change does this PR introduce? (Bug fix, feature, documentation update...)
What is the current behavior? What is the new behavior?
Other relevant information to this pull request.
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The file should be located at the /news/PR-<#>.rst where <#> should be replaced with the appropriate PR number.
Please see here for the news file template.