From fd261280dc87172591adb1780dc3b02ff08f5fb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dennis Heimbigner <dmh@ucar.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:17:32 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes

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 RELEASE_NOTES.md | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
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+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Release Notes       {#RELEASE_NOTES}
 This file contains a high-level description of this package's evolution. Releases are in reverse chronological order (most recent first). Note that, as of netcdf 4.2, the `netcdf-c++` and `netcdf-fortran` libraries have been separated into their own libraries.
 ## 4.8.1 - TBD
 
+* [Bug Fix] Fix ncdump bug when printing VLENs with basetype char. See [Github #1986](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1986).  
 * [Bug Fix] Allow some primitive type names to be used as identifiers depending on the file format. See [Github #1984](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1984).  
 * [Enhancement] Add support for reading/writing pure Zarr storage format that supports the XArray _ARRAY_DIMENSIONS attribute. See [Github #1952](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1952) for more information.
 * [Update] Updated version of bzip2 used in filter testing/functionality, in support of [Github #1969](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1969).