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 * All user-facing messages are now prepared using the `{cli}` package (#2418, @IndrajeetPatil). All messages have been reviewed and updated to be more informative and consistent.
 * File locations in lints and error messages contain clickable hyperlinks to improve code navigation (#2645, #2588, @olivroy).
 * {lintr} now depends on R version 4.0.0. It already does so implicitly due to recursive upstream dependencies requiring this version; we've simply made that dependency explicit and up-front (#2569, @MichaelChirico).
+* `unreachable_code_linter()` is less strict about whether `allow_comment_regex=` contains capture groups (#2678, @MichaelChirico).
 
 # lintr 3.1.2