diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc
index 87ac9067f1..9073520c25 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc
@@ -298,6 +298,22 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    the image upgrade.
    (merge 1a1579c42d jk/ci-static-analysis-image-bump later to maint).
 
+ * The alias tests in 't/t0014-alias.sh' have been updated to dynamically
+   query the list of deprecated commands using 'git
+   --list-cmds=deprecated' to avoid test failures when running with
+   'WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES' in a build directory that contains stale
+   executables of formerly deprecated commands.
+   (merge bc57ecb915 jk/t0014-dynamic-deprecated-cmds later to maint).
+
+ * The code path that deals with relative paths in the diff-lib has
+   been cleaned up.
+
+ * The get_commit_action() function has been refactored to be a pure
+   predicate by moving the side-effecting line-level log range folding to
+   simplify_commit().  This ensures that evaluating a commit's action
+   before the walk reaches it does not prematurely mutate its tracked
+   line ranges, making it safer for potential lookahead evaluations.
+
 
 Fixes since v2.55
 -----------------
@@ -496,14 +512,26 @@ Fixes since v2.55
    and another prevented the editor from opening when the final command
    in a chain containing 'fixup -c' was skipped.
 
- * The alias tests in 't/t0014-alias.sh' have been updated to dynamically
-   query the list of deprecated commands using 'git
-   --list-cmds=deprecated' to avoid test failures when running with
-   'WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES' in a build directory that contains stale
-   executables of formerly deprecated commands.
-   (merge bc57ecb915 jk/t0014-dynamic-deprecated-cmds later to maint).
-
  * Git for Windows has been updated to avoid auto-detecting the symlink
    type if the target path starts with a slash, preventing NTLM
    credential leaks when checking out repositories with crafted
    symbolic links pointing to network shares.
+
+ * 'git cat-file --batch-command' that asked for 'contents' without
+   'type' segfaults, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 2abc7f0304 jk/cat-file-batch-wo-type-fix later to maint).
+
+ * A memory leak in 'git merge' when run without arguments (which
+   triggers the default-to-upstream path) has been fixed.  A test has
+   been added to cover this case.
+   (merge 68cce04a02 tc/merge-default-to-upstream-leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * A boundary case check in reachability bitmap traversal has been
+   corrected to properly handle the object at position zero, which was
+   previously skipped, leading to redundant bitmap loading.
+   (merge b56b48301e dl/pack-bitmap-position-zero later to maint).
+
+ * A crash in the 'sparse-index' collapse code when encountering an
+   invalidated cache-tree node (due to an intent-to-add path) has been
+   fixed by avoiding collapsing such subtrees.
+   (merge eede1e69fe ds/sparse-index-ita-crash later to maint).