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 Current release
 ---------------
 
+What's new in psycopg 2.7
+-------------------------
+
+New features:
+
+- Added `~psycopg2.__libpq_version__` and
+  `~psycopg2.extensions.libpq_version()` to inspect the version of the
+  ``libpq`` library the module was compiled/loaded with
+  (:tickets:`#35, #323`).
+
+
 What's new in psycopg 2.6.1
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^