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-rw-r--r--docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.41.0.md5
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md
index 66027c2..9c4df7e 100644
--- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md
+++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ This command detects revision control commit information at build time and place
- `input` file to modify (e.g. `version.c.in`) (required)
- `output` file to write the results to (e.g. `version.c`) (required)
-- `fallback` version number to use when no revision control information is present, such as when building from a release tarball (required)
+- `fallback` version number to use when no revision control information is present, such as when building from a release tarball (defaults to `meson.project_version()`)
- `command` string list with the command to execute, see [`custom_target`](#custom_target) for details on how this command must be specified
- `replace_string` string in the input file to substitute with the commit information (defaults to `@VCS_TAG@`)
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.41.0.md b/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.41.0.md
index 6e00ecd..9c02cdc 100644
--- a/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.41.0.md
+++ b/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.41.0.md
@@ -12,3 +12,8 @@ Add features here as code is merged to master.
## Dependency Handler for LLVM
Native support for linking against LLVM using the `dependency` function.
+
+## vcs_tag keyword fallback is is now optional
+
+The `fallback` keyword in `vcs_tag` is now optional. If not given, its value
+defaults to the return value of `meson.project_version()`.