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+]>
+
+<part id="api-breaks">
+  <title>API Breaks</title>
+
+  <para>
+    gedit is a quite old piece of software (created in 1998, at the beginnings
+    of the GNOME project), and as every software, the code evolves during its
+    lifetime. So there are sometimes API breaks for gedit plugins, there are no
+    API stability guarantees.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    When it is possible, instead of directly removing an API, that API is first
+    marked as deprecated, and then removed for the next API break. See the
+    <link linkend="api-index-deprecated">index of deprecated symbols</link>.
+  </para>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>3.36.0 -> 3.37.1</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          All previously deprecated APIs have been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The lockdown support has been removed (for the
+          org.gnome.desktop.lockdown GSettings). So the
+          <code>gedit_app_get_lockdown()</code> function has been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <code>GBOOLEAN_TO_POINTER()</code> and
+          <code>GPOINTER_TO_BOOLEAN()</code> macros have been removed from
+          <code>gedit-utils.h</code>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <code>gedit_utils_get_current_workspace()</code>,
+          <code>gedit_utils_get_window_workspace()</code> and
+          <code>gedit_utils_get_current_viewport()</code> functions have been
+          removed because workspaces information is not available on Wayland.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>3.34.0 -> 3.35.2</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          All previously deprecated APIs have been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <code>GeditDocument:use-gvfs-metadata</code> property has been
+          removed. But there was anyway a warning for not using that property in
+          a gedit plugin.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          For <link linkend="gedit-document-get-metadata">gedit_document_get_metadata()</link>
+          and <link linkend="gedit-document-set-metadata">gedit_document_set_metadata()</link>,
+          the key names should now have the prefix <code>"gedit-"</code> with
+          possibly an additional namespace for the plugin name, for example
+          <code>"gedit-spell-foobar"</code>. So the key names are now the same
+          regardless of the operating system, and the key names should no longer
+          start with <code>"metadata::"</code>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>For previous gedit versions</title>
+    <para>
+      See the
+      <ulink url="https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/Attic/Old_API_Changes">Old API Changes wiki page</ulink>.
+    </para>
+  </refsect1>
+</part>