From 8832b7603fe5f09269abfeae41dacc316b7fb6e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sacha Verweij <Sacha0@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 15:58:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add NEWS.md entry for bitbroadcast deprecation (#19771).
 (#21804)

(cherry picked from commit ba56cbb7bbf7f631178381328092f77a5553a708)
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 NEWS.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index c730bc28a65a3..43278d397e7f0 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -436,6 +436,9 @@ Deprecated or removed
   * The zero-argument constructor `MersenneTwister()` has been
     deprecated in favor of the explicit `MersenneTwister(0)` ([#16984]).
 
+  * `bitbroadcast` has been deprecated in favor of `broadcast`, which now produces a
+    `BitArray` instead of `Array{Bool}` for functions yielding a boolean result ([#19771]).
+
 <!--- generated by NEWS-update.jl: -->
 [#265]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/265
 [#4615]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4615
@@ -511,6 +514,7 @@ Deprecated or removed
 [#19722]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19722
 [#19724]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19724
 [#19741]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19741
+[#19771]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19771
 [#19784]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19784
 [#19786]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19786
 [#19787]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19787