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 ### Features
 
-- support Python 3.12 (@corneliusroemer)
-- support Pandas v2. [#1671] (@corneliusroemer and @victorlin)
+- This is the first version to officially support Python 3.12 and Pandas v2. [#1671] [#1678] (@corneliusroemer, @victorlin)
 - curate: change output metadata to [RFC 4180 CSV-like TSVs][] to match the TSV format output by other Augur subcommands and the Nextstrain ecosystem as discussed in [#1566][]. [#1565][] (@joverlee521)
 
 [#1565]: https://github.com/nextstrain/augur/pull/1565