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+0-sample-topic
+--------------
+
+* This is a sample release note for the change in a topic.
+  Developers should add similar notes for each topic branch
+  making a noteworthy change.  Each document should be named
+  and titled to match the topic name to avoid merge conflicts.
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/Apple-link-framework.rst b/Help/release/dev/Apple-link-framework.rst
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+Apple-link-framework
+--------------------
+
+* The :genex:`LINK_LIBRARY` generator expression gained the ability to link
+  frameworks in various ways when targeting ``Apple`` platforms. The following
+  new features were added:
+
+  * ``FRAMEWORK``
+  * ``NEEDED_FRAMEWORK``
+  * ``REEXPORT_FRAMEWORK``
+  * ``WEAK_FRAMEWORK``
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/Genex-LINK_GROUP.rst b/Help/release/dev/Genex-LINK_GROUP.rst
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+Genex-LINK_GROUP
+----------------
+
+* The :genex:`LINK_GROUP` generator expression was added to manage the grouping
+  of libraries during the link step. The variables
+  :variable:`CMAKE_<LANG>_LINK_GROUP_USING_<FEATURE>` and
+  :variable:`CMAKE_LINK_GROUP_USING_<FEATURE>` are used to define features
+  usable by the :genex:`LINK_GROUP` generator expression.
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/Genex-LINK_LIBRARY.rst b/Help/release/dev/Genex-LINK_LIBRARY.rst
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+Genex-LINK_LIBRARY
+------------------
+
+* The :genex:`LINK_LIBRARY` generator expression was added to manage how
+  libraries are specified during the link step. The variables
+  :variable:`CMAKE_<LANG>_LINK_LIBRARY_USING_<FEATURE>` and
+  :variable:`CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_USING_<FEATURE>` are used to define features
+  usable by the :genex:`LINK_LIBRARY` generator expression. Moreover, the
+  :prop_tgt:`LINK_LIBRARY_OVERRIDE` and
+  :prop_tgt:`LINK_LIBRARY_OVERRIDE_<LIBRARY>` target properties are available
+  to resolve incompatible features.
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/cmcmd-end-of-options-delimiter.rst b/Help/release/dev/cmcmd-end-of-options-delimiter.rst
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+cmcmd-end-of-options-delimiter
+------------------------------
+
+* The :manual:`cmake(1)` ``-E`` commands ``cat`` and ``env`` learned to respect
+  a double dash (``--``) argument that acts as a delimiter indicating the end of
+  options. Any following arguments are treated as operands/positional arguments,
+  even if they begin with a dash ``-`` character.
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/cpack-zstd-parallel.rst b/Help/release/dev/cpack-zstd-parallel.rst
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+cpack-zstd-parallel
+-------------------
+
+* CPack now supports the :variable:`CPACK_THREADS` option for ``zstd``
+  compression when compiled with libarchive 3.6 or higher.  It is
+  supported by official CMake binaries available on ``cmake.org``.
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/file-download-range.rst b/Help/release/dev/file-download-range.rst
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+file-download-range
+-------------------
+
+* Add the fields ``RANGE_START`` and ``RANGE_END`` to ``file(DOWNLOAD)``.
+  Those fields provide a convenient way to specify the range, passed to the
+  libcurl, which can be useful for downloading parts of big binary files.
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/trace-global-frame.rst b/Help/release/dev/trace-global-frame.rst
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+trace-global-frame
+------------------
+
+* Add the field ``global_frame`` to the json-v1 trace format. This
+  frame tracks the depth of the call stack globally across all
+  ``CMakeLists.txt`` files involved in the trace, and will let tools
+  reconstruct stack traces that span from the top-level ``CMakeLists.txt``
+  file of the project.
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/trace-line-end.rst b/Help/release/dev/trace-line-end.rst
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+trace-line-end
+--------------
+
+* Add the field ``line_end`` to the json-v1 trace format. This
+  field tells you the line in file ``file`` at which the function
+  call ends. Tools can use this new field, together with ``line``
+  and ``file``, to map traces to lines of CMake source code.
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/vs_buildcache_support.rst b/Help/release/dev/vs_buildcache_support.rst
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+vs_buildcache_support
+---------------------
+
+* The :prop_tgt:`VS_NO_COMPILE_BATCHING` target property was added to
+  tell :ref:`Visual Studio Generators` whether to disable compiler parallelism
+  and call the compiler with one c/cpp file at a time.