From edb1d65a93965f47e3052fbbc634df52dd217687 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Morten Piibeleht <morten.piibeleht@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 15:33:53 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] News and compat annotation for #29782 (^(::Number,
 ::AbstractMatrix))

---
 NEWS.md           | 1 +
 base/promotion.jl | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e7a4464b52816..ce4e64332d56a 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ Standard library changes
   * `current_project()` now searches the parent directories of a Git repository for a `Project.toml` file.
     This also affects the behavior of the `--project` command line option when using the default
     `--project=@.` ([#29108]).
+  * Exponentiation operator `^` now supports raising a `Number` to an `AbstractMatrix` power ([#29782]).
 
 Compiler/Runtime improvements
 -----------------------------
diff --git a/base/promotion.jl b/base/promotion.jl
index 4eb80c1b68239..351cb2edf69a8 100644
--- a/base/promotion.jl
+++ b/base/promotion.jl
@@ -341,6 +341,9 @@ julia> A^3
  37   54
  81  118
 ```
+
+!!! compat "Julia 1.1"
+    Julia 1.1. added support for raising a number to a matrix power using `^`.
 """
 ^(x::Number, y::Number) = ^(promote(x,y)...)