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 # Overview
 
-Django REST framework is a lightweight library that makes it easy to build Web APIs.  It is designed as a modular and easy to customize architecture, based on Django's class based views.
+Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
 
 Web APIs built using REST framework are fully self-describing and web browseable - a huge useability win for your developers.  It also supports a wide range of media types, authentication and permission policies out of the box.
 
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 For most cases APIs using model fields will behave as previously, however if you are using a custom renderer, not provided by REST framework, then you may now need to add support for rendering `Decimal` instances to your renderer implmentation.
 
+## View names and descriptions
+
+The mechanics of how view names and descriptions are generated from the docstring and classname has been modified and cleaned up somewhat.
+
+If you've been customizing this behavior, for example perhaps to use `rst` markup for the browseable API, then you'll need to take a look at the implementation to see what updates you need to make.
+
+Note that the relevant methods have always been private APIs, and the docstrings called them out as intended to be deprecated. 
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 # Other notes