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+Rooms published in `/publicRooms` don't necessarily have `public` join rules or `world_readable` history visibility.
diff --git a/changelogs/server_server/newsfragments/2104.clarification b/changelogs/server_server/newsfragments/2104.clarification
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+Rooms published in `/publicRooms` don't necessarily have `public` join rules or `world_readable` history visibility.