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@@ -11,6 +11,17 @@ shown (issue #726).
 * centering of three part table wasn't working (issue #692)
 * add_footnote(notation = "none") didn't work properly
 in Markdown output (issue #672)
+* In previous versions, kableExtra manipulated knitr's global settings to auto
+format tables. In 1.4.0, we introduced a markdown table parser, which will
+parse the inputting markdown table back to a dataframe and resend it to the
+kbl function. In this way, all the auto formatting happens within this
+package. In terms of latex table specifically, we also turned on booktabs and
+longtable by default to mimic the default behavior of how pandoc handle
+markdown tables. As a result, most users won't even feel the change. The only
+part that gets impacted is the table labels or references set within the kable
+function through the label option. For this part, first, people can set labels
+using knitr chunk options. Also, people can easily overcome it by either using
+kbl or setting format in kable.