From d98fb7864f9dcd96534650a1c06efcc42ab7ae41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rcooke <rcooke.ast@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:50:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] cubic bugfix

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 doc/releases/1.17.1dev.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/releases/1.17.1dev.rst b/doc/releases/1.17.1dev.rst
index 194bea27a..2829355d7 100644
--- a/doc/releases/1.17.1dev.rst
+++ b/doc/releases/1.17.1dev.rst
@@ -43,4 +43,5 @@ Bug Fixes
   in both spatial dimensions equal to half the field of view.
 - Fix the code for the extraction of the 1D flat spectrum, so that
   the spectrum is extracted even when `pixelflat_model` does not exist.
-
+- The variance cube previously had a cubic term, and this has been changed
+  to a quadratic term. This has been cross-checked with simple subpixel calculations.