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-# Change Log
+# Release Notes
+
+> Release Early, Release Often
+>
+> — Eric S. Raymond, [The Cathedral and the Bazaar][cite].
## 2.0.0
-* **Fix all of the things.**
+* **Fix all of the things.** (Well, almost.)
* For more information please see the [2.0 migration guide][migration].
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* Initial release.
+[cite]: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html
[migration]: migration.md \ No newline at end of file
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@@ -24,13 +24,13 @@ For a more thorough background, check out Klabnik's [Hypermedia API reading list
REST framework is an agnositic Web API toolkit. It does help guide you towards building well-connected APIs, and makes it easy to design appropriate media types, but it does not strictly enforce any particular design style.
-## What REST framework *does* provide.
+## What REST framework provides.
It is self evident that REST framework makes it possible to build Hypermedia APIs. The browseable API that it offers is built on HTML - the hypermedia language of the web.
REST framework also includes [serialization] and [parser]/[renderer] components that make it easy to build appropriate media types, [hyperlinked relations][fields] for building well-connected systems, and great support for [content negotiation][conneg].
-## What REST framework *doesn't* provide.
+## What REST framework doesn't provide.
What REST framework doesn't do is give you is machine readable hypermedia formats such as [Collection+JSON][collection] or HTML [microformats] by default, or the ability to auto-magically create fully HATEOAS style APIs that include hypermedia-based form descriptions and semantically labelled hyperlinks. Doing so would involve making opinionated choices about API design that should really remain outside of the framework's scope.