rl-2003: mention python driver

(cherry picked from commit a435d41af5ca29c879ee84b19186c55f2caa35ee)

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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml
index 1c0aaca8ae2..64a56d9197f 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml
@@ -75,6 +75,24 @@ services.xserver.displayManager.defaultSession = "xfce+icewm";
 </programlisting>
     </para>
    </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     The testing driver implementation in NixOS is now in Python <filename>make-test-python.nix</filename>.
+     This was done by Jacek Galowicz (<link xlink:href="https://github.com/tfc">@tfc</link>), and with the
+     collaboration of Julian Stecklina (<link xlink:href="https://github.com/blitz">@blitz</link>) and
+     Jana Traue (<link xlink:href="https://github.com/jtraue">@jtraue</link>). All documentation has been updated to use this
+     testing driver, and a vast majority of the 286 tests in NixOS were ported to python driver. In 20.09 the Perl driver implementation,
+     <filename>make-test.nix</filename>, is slated for removal. This should give users of the NixOS integration framework
+     a transitory period to rewrite their tests to use the Python implementation. Users of the Perl driver will see
+     this warning everytime they use it:
+<screen>
+<prompt>$ </prompt>warning: Perl VM tests are deprecated and will be removed for 20.09.
+Please update your tests to use the python test driver.
+See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/71684 for details.
+</screen>
+     API compatibility is planned to be kept for at least the next release with the perl driver.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </section>