Add release-notes for the context-restriction in readFile

2022-11-14 15:03:53 +01:00
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  arguments will be ignored and the resulting derivation will have
  `__impure` set to `true`, making it an impure derivation.

+* If `builtins.readFile` is called on a file with context, then only the parts
+  of that context that appear in the content of the file are retained.
+  This avoids a lot of spurious errors where some benign strings end-up having
+  a context just because they are read from a store path
+  ([#7260](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7260)).