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+* The deprecated :mod:`iris.fileformats.grib` was removed. All Iris GRIB functionality is now delivered through :mod:`iris-grib`.
diff --git a/docs/iris/src/whatsnew/contributions_2.0/incompatiblechange_2017-Oct-27_logging_removed.txt b/docs/iris/src/whatsnew/contributions_2.0/incompatiblechange_2017-Oct-27_logging_removed.txt
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+* In Iris v1 it was possible to configure Iris to log at import time through :attr:`iris.config.LOGGING`. This capability has been removed in iris v2.