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+40.alpha.1
+==========
+* Don't depend on sassc when building from tarball [Florian; !150]
+* Port extensions preferences to GTK4 [Florian; !148]
+* Misc. bug fixes and cleanups [Florian, Jonas; !149, !151, !153]
+
+Contributors:
+  Jonas Dreßler, Florian Müllner
+
 40.alpha
 ========
 * window-list: Honor changes in skip-taskbar property [Sergio; !130]