From d5cc0f2a622ad7ce182ed1f4dad0ac1641a68d2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?David=20R=C3=B6thlisberger?= <david@stb-tester.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 17:16:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] changelog for new NUMBERS doctest option

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 AUTHORS                    | 1 +
 changelog/5576.feature.rst | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelog/5576.feature.rst

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 087fce8d0..aacf16a36 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ Danielle Jenkins
 Dave Hunt
 David Díaz-Barquero
 David Mohr
+David Paul Röthlisberger
 David Szotten
 David Vierra
 Daw-Ran Liou
diff --git a/changelog/5576.feature.rst b/changelog/5576.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..267a28292
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/5576.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+New `NUMBER <https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/doctest.html#using-doctest-options>`__
+option for doctests to ignore irrelevant differences in floating-point numbers.
+Inspired by Sébastien Boisgérault's `numtest <https://github.com/boisgera/numtest>`__
+extension for doctest.