From 8056a677b4b3c04a9b48b012efc26ea5ab8286e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ran Benita <ran@unusedvar.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 11:01:55 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add changelog for PR #7631

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+The result type of :meth:`capfd.readouterr() <_pytest.capture.CaptureFixture.readouterr>` (and similar) is no longer a namedtuple,
+but should behave like one in all respects. This was done for technical reasons.