From aa906264ee8de9404912a5e2048deb89884474a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Wilding <david.wilding@canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 11:35:59 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] filter out build dir from vale checks

---
 docs/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
index 07e7d4b9..ebe94703 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ VALE_DIR         ?= $(DOCS_VENVDIR)/lib/python*/site-packages/vale
 VALE_CONFIG      ?= $(DEV_DIR)/vale.ini
 PA11Y_CMD        ?= $(DEV_DIR)/node_modules/pa11y/bin/pa11y.js --config $(DEV_DIR)/pa11y.json
 CONFIRM_SUDO     ?= N
-CHECK_PATH       ?= $(filter-out $(DOCS_VENVDIR),$(wildcard *))
+CHECK_PATH       ?= $(filter-out $(DOCS_VENVDIR) $(DOCS_BUILDDIR),$(wildcard *))
 
 # Put it first so that "make" without argument is like "make help".
 help:

From 676c5eaede2447d02dda8d4307523abff04ca0af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Wilding <david.wilding@canonical.com>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 15:32:03 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] mention the fix in the changelog

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f59db621..a7360315 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,7 +2,16 @@
 
 ## Upcoming
 
+* Prevent Vale from processing Markdown files in the build directory
 * Update link to documenation in README
+
+### Changed
+
+* `docs/Makefile` [#605](https://github.com/canonical/sphinx-stack/pull/605)
+* `README.md` [#603](https://github.com/canonical/sphinx-stack/pull/603)
+
+## 2.0
+
 * Add an `AUTOBUILD_EXTRA_OPTS` variable to extend sphinx-autobuild options for `make run`
 * Add default support for the sphinx-llm extension
 * Pin dependencies to major versions
@@ -13,7 +22,6 @@
 
 ### Changed
 
-* `README.md` [#603](https://github.com/canonical/sphinx-stack/pull/603)
 * `docs/conf.py`  [#562](https://github.com/canonical/sphinx-docs-starter-pack/pull/562), [#576](https://github.com/canonical/sphinx-docs-starter-pack/pull/576), [#590](https://github.com/canonical/sphinx-docs-starter-pack/pull/590), [#595](https://github.com/canonical/sphinx-docs-starter-pack/pull/595), [#598](https://github.com/canonical/sphinx-docs-starter-pack/pull/598)
 * `docs/Makefile` [#575](https://github.com/canonical/sphinx-docs-starter-pack/pull/575), [#590](https://github.com/canonical/sphinx-docs-starter-pack/pull/590)
 * `docs/requirements.txt` [#590]([#590](https://github.com/canonical/sphinx-docs-starter-pack/pull/590))

From 1ae85cf6d8d05867bb11d6d66c7187856dc57dba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Wilding <david.wilding@canonical.com>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 15:32:26 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] change title of the changelog

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a7360315..b060ba18 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# sphinx-docs-starter-pack changelog
+# sphinx-stack changelog
 
 ## Upcoming