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 Current release
 ---------------
 
+What's new in psycopg 2.9.6
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Package manylinux 2014 for aarch64 and ppc64le platforms, in order to
+  include libpq 15 in the binary package (:ticket:`#1396`).
+
+
 What's new in psycopg 2.9.5
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^