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   ranges. Also, fixed an issue with CID ranges when round-tripping AST->string->AST
   (#1872).
 - [Snippets/otf2ttf] In otf2ttf.py script update LSB in hmtx to match xMin (#1873).
+- [colorLib] Added experimental support for building ``COLR`` v1 tables as per
+  the `colr-gradients-spec <https://github.com/googlefonts/colr-gradients-spec/blob/master/colr-gradients-spec.md>`__
+  draft proposal. **NOTE**: both the API and the XML dump of ``COLR`` v1 are
+  susceptible to change while the proposal is being discussed and formalized (#1822).
 
 4.7.0 (released 2020-04-03)
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