From 33811a0f3d00028e50aa475a432b023c66ba713b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@math.tamu.edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:26:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add changelog entry.

---
 doc/news/changes.h | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/news/changes.h b/doc/news/changes.h
index cef4132d1a..d24e8bc605 100644
--- a/doc/news/changes.h
+++ b/doc/news/changes.h
@@ -39,6 +39,17 @@ inconvenience this causes.
 
 <ol>
 
+ <li> Changed: The conversion constructors of class Vector from the
+ PETScWrappers::Vector, PETScWrappers::MPI::Vector,
+ TrilinosWrappers::Vector, and TrilinosWrappers::MPI::Vector classes
+ are now marked as <code>explicit</code>, i.e., they will no longer
+ allow implicit, silent conversions. Such conversions lead to awkward
+ errors that are hard to debug, and in cases where they are necessary,
+ are best described in code through explicit casts.
+ <br>
+ (Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/06/25)
+ </li>
+
  <li> Changed: The deal.II distributed vector classes do now derive from
  LinearAlgebra::VectorSpaceVector and have been moved to the
  LinearAlgebra::distributed namespace. In the definition of the new
-- 
2.39.5