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 <title>Release 1.8 (TBA)</title>
 
-<para>TODO</para>
+<itemizedlist>
 
-</chapter>
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+  <listitem><para>Derivations can specify the new special attribute
+  <varname>allowedRequisites</varname>, which has a similar meaning to
+  <varname>allowedReferences</varname>. But instead of only enforcing
+  to explicitly specify the immediate references, it requires the
+  derivation to specify all the dependencies recursively (hence the
+  name, requisites) that are used by the resulting
+  output.</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</chapter>