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+The 'overgeneral-exceptions' option now only takes fully qualified name
+into account (``builtins.Exception`` not ``Exception``). If you overrode
+this option, you need to use the fully qualified name now.
+
+There's still a warning, but it will be removed in 3.1.0.
+
+Refs #8411