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From: Richard Neher <richard.neher@unibas.ch>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:57:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add to changelog

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 ## __NEXT__
 
+- Explicitly specify how the root and ambiguous states are handled during sequence reconstruction and mutation counting. Fixes issue [#1689][] (@rneher) and was resolved in PR [#1690][].
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+[#1689]: https://github.com/nextstrain/augur/pull/1689
+[#1690]: https://github.com/nextstrain/augur/pull/1690
 
 ## 26.2.0 (20 November 2024)