Nuclinfo Major Pair and Minor Pair overhaul

package/CHANGELOG

@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ The rules for this file:
   * release numbers follow "Semantic Versioning" http://semver.org
 
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-??/??/?? IAlibay, ianmkenney, PicoCentauri, pgbarletta, p-j-smith, richardjgowers
+
+??/??/?? IAlibay, ianmkenney, PicoCentauri, pgbarletta, p-j-smith, richardjgowers,
+         ALescoulie
+
 
  * 2.7.0
 
@@ -26,6 +29,8 @@ Fixes
     RMSD of None
 
 Enhancements
+  * Add faster nucleic acid Major and Minor pair distance calculators using
+    AnalysisBase for updated nucleicacids module (Issue #3720, PR #3735)
   * Updated lib.qcprot.CalcRMSDRotationalMatrix to accept either float32 or float64
     inputs
   * Added a warning about charge neutrality to the documentation of
@@ -64,6 +69,9 @@ Changes
     as DEF is deprecated as of Cython>=3.0 (Issue #4237, PR #4246)
 
 Deprecations
+  * using `List[Residue]` as input for `analysis.nucleicacids.WatsonCrickDist()` is 
+    deprecated and will be removed in release 3.0.0; instead use a `ResidueGroup` 
+    (Issue #3720, PR #3735)
 
 
 08/15/23 IAlibay, jaclark5, MohitKumar020291, orionarcher, xhgchen,