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+# 0.13.0
+
+- **Breaking change:** adopt the new `Durability` API proposed in [RFC #6]
+    - this replaces and generalizes the existing concepts of constants
+- **Breaking change:** remove "volatile" queries
+    - instead, create a normal query which invokes the
+      `report_untracked_read` method on the salsa runtime
+- introduce "slots", an optimization to salsa's internal workings
+- document `#[salsa::requires]` attribute, which permits private dependencies
+- Adopt `AtomicU64` for `runtimeId` (#182)
+- use `ptr::eq` and `ptr::hash` for readability
+- upgrade parking lot, rand dependencies
+
+[RFC #6]: https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa-rfcs/pull/6