From ccda6a1f5e7e59b6c639421babb802eabdf633ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ran Benita <ran@unusedvar.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:36:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: add compat note about `config.args` to pytest 9.0.0
 changelog

Refs #13996.
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 doc/en/changelog.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/en/changelog.rst b/doc/en/changelog.rst
index d9e9928db00..8f869634c73 100644
--- a/doc/en/changelog.rst
+++ b/doc/en/changelog.rst
@@ -266,6 +266,9 @@ Removals and backward incompatible breaking changes
   now, CI mode is only activated if at least one of those variables is defined and set to a *non-empty* value.
 
 
+- The non-public ``config.args`` attribute used to be able to contain ``pathlib.Path`` instances; now it can only contain strings.
+
+
 - `#13779 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/13779>`_: **PytestRemovedIn9Warning deprecation warnings are now errors by default.**
 
   Following our plan to remove deprecated features with as little disruption as