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 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
 
+** Bug fixes
+
+  When recursing, chmod -R no longer gets confused into following a symlink
+  if some other process simultaneously replaces a non-symlink with a symlink.
+  The fix is effective on modern hosts with the fchmodat or lchmod syscalls.
+  [bug introduced in the beginning]
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.16 (2012-03-26) [stable]