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@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ New features
      Kullback-Leibler divergence and the Itakura-Saito divergence.
      By `Tom Dupre la Tour`_.
 
+   - Added :func:`metrics.regression.mean_squared_log_error`, which computes 
+     the mean square error of the logarithmic transformation of targets, 
+     particularly useful for targets with an exponential trend.
+     :issue:`7655` by :user:`Karan Desai <karandesai-96>`.
+
 Enhancements
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