potential commits for 1.0.36 release notes about tarsnap HOT 5 CLOSED

Did you look all the way back to the last release? 74476c1 is important, and c2ff62b is probably also worth mentioning... they're both tarsnap-dies errors which quite a few people tripped over (although the second one I agree has a vague git commit message).

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I think my focus for release notes was more towards new features (or funny bugfixes, such as files over 68 years old). I saw 74476c1 but didn't think it needed to be in the release notes. I didn't understand c2ff62b at first glance, but it didn't look like a new feature.

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Fair enough. My general sense is that release notes should cover things relevant to users, regardless of whether it's new features or fixes of user-visible bugs. (But things like insignificant memory leaks can be swept into "minor bug fixes" since users are unlikely to ever run into them.)

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Oh, 58ea6e2 definitely needs to be mentioned in the release notes too... "tarsnap can make linux reboot" is a nasty user-visible bug.

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I think I managed to list everything important in the email I just sent to the alphatest list.

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