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@@ -67,9 +67,11 @@ The next few rules are more of a technical nature::
branches) an empty merge should be done.
2. All news updates intended for public viewing, such as new features,
- bug fixes, improvements, etc., should go into the NEWS file of the
- *first* to be released version with the given change. In other words
- any NEWS file change only needs to done in one branch.
+ bug fixes, improvements, etc., should go into the NEWS file of *any
+ stable release* version with the given change. In other words,
+ news about a bug fix which went into PHP-5.4, PHP-5.5 and master
+ should be noted in both PHP-5.4/NEWS and PHP-5.5/NEWS but
+ not master, which is not a public released version yet.
3. Do not commit multiple file and dump all messages in one commit. If you
modified several unrelated files, commit each group separately and