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@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ THE Z SHELL (ZSH)
 Version
 -------
 
-This is version 5.8 of the shell.  This is a stable release.  There are
-a few visible improvements since 5.7 as well as many bugfixes.
+This is version 5.8 of the shell.  This is a security and feature release.
+There are a few visible improvements since 5.7, as well as many bugfixes.
+All zsh installations are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
 
 Note in particular the changes highlighted under "Incompatibilities since
 5.7.1" below.  See NEWS for more information.
@@ -60,6 +61,12 @@ This only affects you if you override that function in your dotfiles.
 The cd and chdir builtins no longer interpret operands like -1 and +2 as
 stack entries when POSIX_CD is enabled.
 
+Dropping privileges with `unsetopt privileged` may fail (with an error
+message) on some older and uncommon platforms due to library dependency
+changes made in the course of fixing CVE-2019-20044.  Please report this
+to the zsh-workers mailing list if your system is affected.  See NEWS for
+more.
+
 Incompatibilities between 5.6.2 and 5.7.1
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