Updated with default conversion changes from 6.0 in documentation (#1426

) * Updated with default conversion changes from 6.0 in documentation * Fixed doc references
jupyter · Sep 25, 2020 · 18e1b16 · 18e1b16
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diff --git a/docs/source/changelog.rst b/docs/source/changelog.rst
@@ -531,6 +531,7 @@ New Features
 Deprecations
 ++++++++++++
 - Drop support for python 3.3 :ghpull:`843`
+- Default conversion method on the CLI was removed (``--to html`` now required)
 
 Fixing Problems
 +++++++++++++++

diff --git a/docs/source/usage.rst b/docs/source/usage.rst
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ The command-line syntax to run the ``nbconvert`` script is::
 This will convert the Jupyter notebook file ``notebook.ipynb`` into the output
 format given by the ``FORMAT`` string.
 
-Default output format - HTML
-----------------------------
-The default output format is HTML, for which the ``--to`` argument may be
-omitted::
+Default output format
+---------------------
 
-  $ jupyter nbconvert notebook.ipynb
+In 5.x versions of nbconvert the default output format was html. In 6.0 the default was removed,
+requiring CLI calls to explicitly set a ``--to`` argument in order to execute. To mimic original
+5.x behavior one should add ``--to=html`` to the ``jupyter nbconvert`` command.
 
 .. _supported_output: