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+- **Fixed:**
+  A bug producing ill-typed instances of existential variables when let-ins
+  interleaved with assumptions
+  (`#13387 <https://github.com/coq/coq/pull/13387>`_,
+  fixes `#12348 <https://github.com/coq/coq/issues/13387>`_,
+  by Hugo Herbelin).