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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Bugfixes
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 - Fix a long-standing bug where room avatars were not included in email notifications. ([\#10658](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10658))
-- Added opentracing logging to help debug #9424. ([\#10704](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10704))
+- Added opentracing logging to help debug stuck messages (as described by issue [#9424](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9424)). ([\#10704](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10704))
 - Fix a bug where the ordering algorithm was skipping the `origin_server_ts` step in the spaces summary resulting in unstable room orderings. ([\#10730](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10730))
 - Allow user registration via SSO to require consent tracking for SSO mapping providers that don't prompt for Matrix ID selection. Contributed by @AndrewFerr. ([\#10733](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10733))
 - Fix edge case when persisting events into a room where there are multiple events we previously hadn't calculated auth chains for (and hadn't marked as needing to be calculated). ([\#10743](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10743))