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@@ -169,8 +169,14 @@ Nothing built in, but the exit code makes it a one-liner:
 ```bash title="check-recent.sh"
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # Check the last N commit messages; exits non-zero if any fail.
+
+# Resolved before the loop rather than inside it: an unreadable range or a
+# directory that is not a repository would otherwise expand to nothing, and
+# a loop that never runs would report success.
+shas=$(git rev-list -n "${1:-10}" HEAD) || exit 1
+
 status=0
-for sha in $(git rev-list -n "${1:-10}" HEAD); do
+for sha in $shas; do
   if ! git log -1 --format=%B "$sha" | commit-check -m --compact; then
     echo "  ↑ $sha"
     status=1
 
@@ -35,6 +35,21 @@ types, following
 
 [:octicons-arrow-right-24: CC201](rules.md#cc201)
 
+## 2.8.0 — Custom message patterns
+
+`message_pattern` replaces the generated Conventional Commits regex with one of
+your own, for teams that already enforce a different format.
+
+```toml title="cchk.toml"
+[commit]
+message_pattern = "^PROJ-\\d+: .+"
+```
+
+This release also dropped Python 3.9. The minimum is now 3.10.
+
+[:octicons-arrow-right-24: CC001](rules.md#cc001) ·
+[Configuration](configuration.md)
+
 ## 2.7.0 — Force push blocking
 
 A `pre-push` hook that refuses a force push to a shared branch, plus a