From 4df0c7510153fff1504d9abf4be6291f9b84bedf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roger Sheen <roger@infotexture.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 14:30:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add details on links to titles with footnotes

- https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/4269
- https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/pull/4276

Signed-off-by: Roger Sheen <roger@infotexture.net>
---
 release-notes/index.dita | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/release-notes/index.dita b/release-notes/index.dita
index e6c6d09c..02ab6940 100644
--- a/release-notes/index.dita
+++ b/release-notes/index.dita
@@ -108,8 +108,10 @@
             <xref href="https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/4264" format="html" scope="external">#4264</xref>,
             <xref href="https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/4280" format="html" scope="external">#4280</xref>
           </li>
-          <li id="4269">Footnote in <xmlelement>title</xmlelement>, footnote text appears in <xmlelement
-            >xref</xmlelement>
+          <li id="4269">In earlier versions, cross-references or other links to titles that contained footnotes included
+            the footnote text. For a link to a target element that has no explicit link text, DITA-OT computes default
+            link text from the target element. Link text computation now ignores any <xmlelement>fn</xmlelement>
+            elements it encounters, so the link shows only the text from the <xmlelement>title</xmlelement> element.
             <xref href="https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/4269" format="html" scope="external">#4269</xref>
           </li>
           <li id="4275">Different topicmeta/navtitle should keep their value even if the target file is the same