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+The backward-compatible defaults in :func:`mne.preprocessing.maxwell_filter` of ``st_overlap=False`` and ```mc_interp=None`` will change to their smooth variants ``True`` and ``"hann"``, respectively, in 1.11, by `Eric Larson`_.