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+12.2.0
+------
+
+Security
+========
+
+TODO
+^^^^
+
+TODO
+
+:cve:`YYYY-XXXXX`: TODO
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+TODO
+
+Backwards incompatible changes
+==============================
+
+TODO
+^^^^
+
+TODO
+
+Deprecations
+============
+
+TODO
+^^^^
+
+TODO
+
+API changes
+===========
+
+Error when encoding an empty image
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Attempting to encode an image with zero width or height would previously raise
+a :py:exc:`SystemError`. That has now been changed to a :py:exc:`ValueError`.
+
+This does not add any new errors. SGI, ICNS and ICO formats are still able to
+save (0, 0) images.
+
+API additions
+=============
+
+FontFile.to_imagefont()
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+:py:class:`~PIL.FontFile.FontFile` instances can now be directly converted to
+:py:class:`~PIL.ImageFont.ImageFont` instances::
+
+    >>> from PIL import PcfFontFile
+    >>> with open("Tests/fonts/10x20-ISO8859-1.pcf", "rb") as fp:
+    ...   pcffont = PcfFontFile.PcfFontFile(fp)
+    ...   pcffont.to_imagefont()
+    ...
+    <PIL.ImageFont.ImageFont object at 0x10457bb80>
+
+Other changes
+=============
+
+TODO
+^^^^
+
+TODO
diff --git a/docs/releasenotes/index.rst b/docs/releasenotes/index.rst
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@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ expected to be backported to earlier versions.
   :maxdepth: 2
 
   versioning
+  12.2.0
   12.1.1
   12.1.0
   12.0.0