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diff --git a/doc/release/1.7.0-notes.rst b/doc/release/1.7.0-notes.rst
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@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ functions. To facilitate this transition, numpy 1.7 produces a
FutureWarning if it detects that you may be attempting to write to
such an array. See the documentation for np.diagonal for details.
+Similar to np.diagonal above, in a future version of numpy, indexing
+a record array by a list of field names will return a view onto the
+original array, instead of producing a copy as they do now. As with
+np.diagonal, numpy 1.7 produces a DeprecationWarning if it detects
+that you may be attemping to write to such an array. See the documentation
+for array indexing for details.
+
The default casting rule for UFunc out= parameters has been changed from
'unsafe' to 'same_kind'. Most usages which violate the 'same_kind'
rule are likely bugs, so this change may expose previously undetected