diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 35edc7fbf..ccd1fe4c4 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -313,7 +313,6 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
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 * Important: Single $ signs are no longer silently stripped!
->>>>>>> 1.263.2.51
   Before you panic that we have broken all your build files, we have kept
   the old "$$" -> "$" behaviour. So only build files which accidentally had
   a $ sign in a string that was being silently stripped may break.