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+NetworkX 2.8.4
+==============
+
+Release date: 13 June 2022
+
+Supports Python 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10.
+
+NetworkX is a Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the
+structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks.
+
+For more information, please visit our `website <https://networkx.org/>`_
+and our :ref:`gallery of examples <examples_gallery>`.
+Please send comments and questions to the `networkx-discuss mailing list
+<http://groups.google.com/group/networkx-discuss>`_.
+
+Highlights
+----------
+
+Minor documentation and bug fixes.
+
+Merged PRs
+----------
+
+- Bump release version
+- Clean up maximal_independent_set tests (#5567)
+- MAINT: Cleanup centrality module, remove unused variables (#5308)
+- importorskip scipy instead of numpy for total spanning tree (#5693)
+- Add initial_graph parameter to scale_free_graph and deprecate create_using (#5697)
+- Add docstring example for attr transfer to linegraph. (#5698)
+- Update ISMAGS.analyze_symmetry docstring. (#5696)
+- Add default value p=2 for minkowski distance metric. (#5700)
+- Update inline code to inline math in docstring (#5701)
+- Update multigraph docstrings to reflect `remove_edges_from` behavior. (#5699)
+- Update simple_cycles docstring w/ yields and examples (#5709)
+- Chromatic polynomial (#5675)
+- Catch ':' explicitly while working with pydot (#5710)
+- Revert "Add workaround for pytest failures on 3.11b2" (#5717)
+- Default to lightmode for documentation (#5715)
+- Dont compute all biconnected components in `is_biconnected()` (#5688)
+- Some more changes to make pytest-randomly happy (#5719)
+- Add durations flag to coverage run on CI. (#5718)
+- Recover order of layers in multipartite_layout when layers are sortable (#5705)
+- Update doc requirements (#5711)
+- Touchups to MG and MDG edges docstrings. (#5708)
+- Add PendingDeprecation for pydot (#5721)
+- Add example of topo_order kwarg to dag_longest_path (#5728)
+- CI: add pytest-randomly workflow. (#4553)
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+- Ross Barnowski
+- Szabolcs Horvát
+- Lucas H. McCabe
+- Jarrod Millman
+- Mridul Seth
+- Matus Valo