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 CHANGES WITH 254 in spe:
 
+        Announcements of Future Feature Removals and Incompatible Changes:
+
+        * EnvironmentFile now treats the line following a comment line trailing
+          with escape as a non comment line. For details, see:
+          https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/27975
+
         Security relevant changes:
 
         * pam_systemd will now by default pass the CAP_WAKE_ALARM ambient