From 06272aed5fc456ebcc29151315416b684bc16c87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Natsuo Kishimoto <mail@paul.kishimoto.name>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 11:19:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add #532 to release notes

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 RELEASE_NOTES.rst | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.rst b/RELEASE_NOTES.rst
index 51bb1d682..4935b9382 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.rst
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
-.. Next release
-.. ============
+Next release
+============
+
+- :mod:`ixmp` locates GAMS API libraries needed for the Java code underlying :class:`.JDBCBackend` based on the system GAMS installation (:pull:`532`).
+  As a result:
+
+  - :class:`.JDBCBackend` supports is usable on MacOS with newer, ``arm64``-architecture processors and Python/GAMS compiled for ``arm64`` (:issue:`473`, :issue:`531`).
+  - GAMS API libraries are no longer (re-)packaged with ixmp in the directory :file:`ixmp/backend/jdbc/`.
 
 .. _v3.9.0: