From 38a3943f171d312f62389730abf0bed110571984 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Bonfield <jkb@sanger.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 12:19:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Document the future plan to make CRAM3.1 the default version

---
 NEWS | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9b21db825..e6962e25f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ The primary user-visible changes in this release are updates to the
 annot-tsv tool and some speed improvements.  Full details of other
 changes and bugs fixed are below.
 
+Notice: this is the last SAMtools / HTSlib release where CRAM 3.0 will be
+the default CRAM version.  From the next we will change to CRAM 3.1
+unless the version is explicitly specified, for example using
+"samtools view -O cram,version=3.0".
+
 
 Updates
 -------