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 Changes to the LLVM IR
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-* ...
+* Using the legacy pass manager for the optimization pipeline is deprecated and
+  will be removed after LLVM 14. In the meantime, only minimal effort will be
+  made to maintain the legacy pass manager for the optimization pipeline.
 
 Changes to building LLVM
 ------------------------