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+- [cu2qu] Added ``fontTools.cu2qu`` package, imported from the original
+  `cu2qu <https://github.com/googlefonts/cu2qu>`__ project. The ``cu2qu.pens`` module
+  was moved to ``fontTools.pens.cu2quPen``. The optional cu2qu extension module
+  can be compiled by installing `Cython <https://cython.org/>` before installing
+  fonttools from source (i.e. git repo or sdist tarball). The wheel package that
+  is published on PyPI (i.e. the one ``pip`` downloads, unless ``--no-binary``
+  option is used), will continue to be pure-Python for now (#1868).
+
 4.6.0 (released 2020-03-24)
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