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@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ See LICENSE for licensing details (GPL v2).
   stuff has been renamed and shuffled around to be more consistent.
 
 ### code
+- irc_dictionary and irc_radixtree stuff is now in librb, prefixed accordingly.
+  Typedefs have been added for consistency reasons. For example, now you would
+  write `rb_dictionary \*foo` and `RB_DICTIONARY_FOREACH`.
+- C99 bools have been added. Don't use ints as simple true/false flags anymore.
+  Don't use `YES`/`NO` or `TRUE`/`FALSE` macros (`TRUE`/`FALSE` has been removed
+  and `YES`/`NO` is awaiting the same fate). Use just `true` and `false`.
 - libratbox has been renamed to librb, as we have diverged from upstream long
   ago.
 - Almost all 2.8-style hashtable structures have been moved to dictionaries or