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+If you use custom templates, you may need to revise them as pandoc
+changes.  We recommend tracking the changes in the default templates,
+and modifying your custom templates accordingly. An easy way to do this
+is to fork the
+[pandoc-templates repository](http://github.com/jgm/pandoc-templates)
+and merge in changes after each pandoc release.
+
 Pandoc's markdown
 =================