# HG changeset patch
# User Arun Giridhar <arungiridhar@gmail.com>
# Date 1669198992 18000
# Node ID bbd07d0f587be8a3ce8eb6d12ae75aafe2ad7fc1
# Parent  f491195f768729ad24ddc96e1458f3127da1a413# Parent  cb5d5c9d9c14f8f5fb34e9417e9b14933f272f7a
maint: Merge stable to default.

diff -r f491195f7687 -r bbd07d0f587b etc/NEWS.8.md
--- a/etc/NEWS.8.md	Wed Nov 23 05:14:34 2022 -0500
+++ b/etc/NEWS.8.md	Wed Nov 23 05:23:12 2022 -0500
@@ -121,9 +121,7 @@
 
   *What this means for user code*: If you want to treat "foo" as a character
   vector as opposed to a string object, *and* if you intend to use a future
-  version of Octave with string classes, then rewrite "foo" as 'foo'.  If you
-  need to retain the character vector behavior for "foo", you can continue to
-  use Octave 8 with long-term support.
+  version of Octave with string classes, then rewrite "foo" as 'foo'.
 
 ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 8