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@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Version 0.25
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
 
+   v0.25.2
    v0.25.1
    v0.25.0
 
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+.. _whatsnew_0252:
+
+What's new in 0.25.2 (October XX, 2019)
+---------------------------------------
+
+These are the changes in pandas 0.25.2. See :ref:`release` for a full changelog
+including other versions of pandas.
+
+.. _whatsnew_0252.bug_fixes:
+
+Bug fixes
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+Categorical
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+-
+
+Datetimelike
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+-
+-
+-
+
+Timezones
+^^^^^^^^^
+
+-
+
+Numeric
+^^^^^^^
+
+-
+-
+-
+-
+
+Conversion
+^^^^^^^^^^
+
+-
+
+Interval
+^^^^^^^^
+
+-
+
+Indexing
+^^^^^^^^
+
+-
+-
+-
+-
+
+Missing
+^^^^^^^
+
+-
+
+I/O
+^^^
+
+-
+-
+-
+
+Plotting
+^^^^^^^^
+
+-
+-
+-
+
+Groupby/resample/rolling
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+-
+-
+-
+-
+-
+
+Reshaping
+^^^^^^^^^
+
+-
+-
+-
+-
+-
+
+Sparse
+^^^^^^
+
+-
+
+Other
+^^^^^
+
+-
+-
+
+.. _whatsnew_0.252.contributors:
+
+Contributors
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. contributors:: v0.25.1..HEAD