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@@ -617,6 +617,14 @@ and cmake options. There are a few exceptions:
``QPDF_TEST_COMPARE_IMAGES`` to ``1`` to *enable* image comparison
tests. Either way, they are off by default.
+- Non-user-visible change: the preprocessor symbol that triggers the
+ export of functions into the public ABI (application binary
+ interface) has been changed from ``DLL_EXPORT`` to
+ ``libqpdf_EXPORTS``. This detail is encapsulated in the build and is
+ only relevant to people who are building qpdf on their own or who
+ may have previously needed to work around a collision between qpdf's
+ use of ``DLL_EXPORT`` and someone else's use of the same symbol.
+
- A handful of options that were specific to autoconf or the old build
system have been dropped.