From 69139950eda9566452213dad2db68828dd25fe08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zacharyburnett <zburnett@stsci.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 14:22:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add change log entry

---
 CHANGES.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 74a1a38f0a9..bf5098da218 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ assign_wcs
 associations
 ------------
 
+- fix issue where initializing ``matplotlib`` logging with ``usetex=True``
+  would cause the log message passed to the multiline logging handler to be ``bytes``
+  instead of the expected ``str`` [#7616]
+
 - Ensure NRS IFU exposures don't make a spec2 association for grating/filter combinations
   where the nrs2 detector isn't illuminated.  Remove dupes in mkpool. [#8395]