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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Note that some of these can be done concurrently.
 
 1. Choose to merge or not merge pending changes
 	- Ideally there would be a release candidate and rigorous testing, but there never seems to be enough time...
+1. Test Issues labelled "Patch pending"
 1. Write the changelog
 	- You can use `git log --pretty='format:[%h %an] %s%n%b%n' 2.x..` (substitute the last release tag for "2.x") as a starting point.
 	- After parsing through the commits to get a list of user-facing changes, group them as in the example below. Use past tense. You should include Issue numbers for bugs and feature requests, but not PRs.