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[oliviertassinari]

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Describe the bug

Renovate opens pull requests linking the PRs on the changelog without any proxies. This makes the work of the maintainers harder. We can no longer easily find all the related effort to a given issue.

Have you created a minimal reproduction repository?

See https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui/issues/27170

[rarkins]

Strange - must be a pattern which our sanitizers miss. Also strange that it's an open issue being referenced in a changelog. We need to locate the backlink in the PRs, then locate the raw changelog it's derived from, and then fix our sanitisation.

[oliviertassinari]

@rarkins I assume it's because of this link in the changelog: https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui/blame/next/CHANGELOG.md#L16

[rarkins]

@zharinov Could you take a look?

[zharinov]

@zharinov Could you take a look?

Okay

[rarkins]

Please test in private repos so that we don't increase the back links any further. I know if you delete a link then the backlink still remains, although maybe if you delete the whole repo then it disappears.

[zharinov]

Yes, the whole repo deletion works, while link deletion isn't

[rarkins]

Maybe the "." at the end of that link fools the linkify we use? There just be something special about that link because the others seem fine and we haven't had a link spam complaint in at least a year

[zharinov]

Hi @oliviertassinari, did you notice another occurrences of this bug for other issues? We think it has something to do with markdown parsing of particular line you mentioned in the CHANGELOG.md.

[oliviertassinari]

Not I can think of. Happy to hear that it's an isolated/edge-case issue.

[renovate-release]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 25.69.2 🎉

The release is available on:

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• 25.69.2

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[oliviertassinari]

Thanks for the fix

[rarkins]

We need to unfortunately reopen this due to a regression error causing mui/material-ui#11133 to be reverted

[renovate-release]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 25.72.3 🎉

The release is available on:

• GitHub release
• 25.72.3

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