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 ### Breaking Changes
 
+- [THRIFT-4743](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4743) - compiler: remove plug-in mechanism
 - [THRIFT-4720](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4720) - cpp: C++03/C++98 support has been removed; also removed boost as a runtime dependency
 - [THRIFT-4730](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4730) - cpp: BoostThreadFactory, PosixThreadFactory, StdThreadFactory removed
 - [THRIFT-4732](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4732) - cpp: CMake build changed to use BUILD_SHARED_LIBS