diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
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+5997.	[cleanup]	Less ceremonial UNEXPECTED_ERROR() and FATAL_ERROR()
+			reporting macros. [GL !6914]
+
 5996.	[bug]		Fix a couple of bugs in cfg_print_duration(), which
 			could result in generating incomplete duration values
 			when printing the configuration using named-checkconf.