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+  o Minor features (compilation, testing):
+    - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the C
+      type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
+      data-driven parser uses to store a value there.  Previously, we needed
+      to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes. Closes ticket
+      23643.