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+# Optim v1.0.0
+* Significant changes to the Non-, Once-, and TwiceDifferentiable setup
+* Test refactoring
+* Drop v0.4 support
+* Swap the order of arguments to gradients and Hessians, such that the mutated object comes first
+* Add limits to f-, g-, and h_calls
+
 # Optim v0.7.6 release notes
 * Fix deprecations for *Function constructors
 * Fix depwarns on Julia master (v0.6)
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-julia 0.4
+julia 0.5
 Calculus
 ForwardDiff 0.3.0 0.4.0
 PositiveFactorizations