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-rw-r--r--dev/doc/changes.md15
-rw-r--r--dev/doc/critical-bugs12
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/dev/doc/MERGING.md b/dev/doc/MERGING.md
index 3f1b470878..c9eceb1270 100644
--- a/dev/doc/MERGING.md
+++ b/dev/doc/MERGING.md
@@ -71,8 +71,9 @@ those external projects should have been prepared (cf. the relevant sub-section
in the [CI README](../ci/README.md#Breaking-changes) and the PR can be tested
with these fixes thanks to ["overlays"](../ci/user-overlays/README.md).
-Moreover the PR must absolutely update the [`CHANGES.md`](../../CHANGES.md) or
-the [`dev/doc/changes.md`](changes.md) file.
+Moreover the PR author *must* add an entry to the [unreleased
+changelog](../../doc/changelog/README.md) or to the
+[`dev/doc/changes.md`](changes.md) file.
If overlays are missing, ask the author to prepare them and label the PR with
the [needs: overlay](https://github.com/coq/coq/labels/needs%3A%20overlay) label.
diff --git a/dev/doc/changes.md b/dev/doc/changes.md
index 40c3c32e4f..9e0d47651e 100644
--- a/dev/doc/changes.md
+++ b/dev/doc/changes.md
@@ -20,6 +20,15 @@ General deprecation
removed. Please, make sure your plugin is warning-free in 8.8 before
trying to port it over 8.9.
+Warnings
+
+- Coq now builds plugins with `-warn-error` enabled by default. The
+ amount of dangerous warnings in plugin code was very high, so we now
+ require plugins in the CI to adhere to the Coq warning policy. We
+ _strongly_ recommend against disabling the default set of warnings.
+ If you have special needs, see the documentation of your build
+ system and/or OCaml for further help.
+
Names
- Kernel names no longer contain a section path. They now have only two
@@ -194,12 +203,6 @@ Termops
- Internal printing functions have been placed under the
`Termops.Internal` namespace.
-Notations:
-
-- Notation.availability_of_notation is not anymore needed: if a
- delimiter is needed, it is provided by Notation.uninterp_notation
- which fails in case the notation is not available.
-
### Unit testing
The test suite now allows writing unit tests against OCaml code in the Coq
diff --git a/dev/doc/critical-bugs b/dev/doc/critical-bugs
index f532e1b68f..01c2b574a2 100644
--- a/dev/doc/critical-bugs
+++ b/dev/doc/critical-bugs
@@ -195,6 +195,18 @@ Conversion machines
GH issue number: ?
risk:
+ component: "virtual machine" (compilation to bytecode ran by a C-interpreter)
+ summary: primitive integer emulation layer on 32 bits not robust to garbage collection
+ introduced: master (before v8.10 in GH pull request #6914)
+ impacted released versions: none
+ impacted development branches:
+ impacted coqchk versions: none (no virtual machine in coqchk)
+ fixed in:
+ found by: Roux, Melquiond
+ exploit:
+ GH issue number: #9925
+ risk:
+
component: "native" conversion machine (translation to OCaml which compiles to native code)
summary: translation of identifier from Coq to OCaml was not bijective, leading to identify True and False
introduced: V8.5