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 * `across(everything())` doesn't select grouping columns created via `.by` in
   `summarise()` (@mgirlich, #1493).
+  
+* Spark SQL backend now supports persisting tables with
+  `compute(x, name = I("x.y.z"), temporary = FALSE)` (@zacdav-db, #1502).
 
 # dbplyr 2.5.0