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   convenient time; the long term plan is to remove `merkle` from this repo.
 * `countFromInformationSchema` function to add support for MySQL 8.
 
+### Storage
+
+* Ephemeral nodes of the Merkle tree are no longer written to storage (#2568).
+  This is backwards compatible with versions >= v0.6. The leftover ephemeral
+  nodes may continue being stored, but since they are not used by reads, the API
+  remains operating correctly.
+
 ## v1.4.0
 
 * Recommended go version for development: 1.17