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@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ Library improvements
 
   * New method for generic QR with column pivoting ([#13480]).
 
+  * A new `SparseVector` type allows for one-dimensional sparse arrays. Slicing
+    and reshaping sparse matrices now return vectors when appropriate. The
+    `sparsevec` function returns a one-dimensional sparse vector instead of a
+    one-column sparse matrix.
+
 Deprecated or removed
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