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  Sun Oct 4 09:59:09 2026 -0700
trackDb docs: maxItems now also sets the VCF record limit of vcfTabix tracks, refs #37306

diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/trackDb/changes.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/trackDb/changes.html
index 89691ed2b1c..3c8c9180152 100755
--- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/trackDb/changes.html
+++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/trackDb/changes.html
@@ -32,30 +32,38 @@
 
 <DIV class="trackDbDoc_intro">
 <H1>Track Database Definition</H1>
 
 <p>This document summarizes the changes to the <a href="trackDbHub.html">UCSC Genome Browser Hub TrackDb specification</a>.<p>
 
 <TABLE class="settingsTable" id="Common_Settings">
 <tbody>
 <tr valign="TOP">
 <th width="100">Date</th>
 <th width="15%">Track Types</th>
 <th width="15%">Link to Doc</th>
 <th>Change</th>
 </tr>
 
+<tr>
+    <td>2026-09-30</td>
+    <td>vcfTabix</td>
+    <td><a href="trackDbHub.html#maxItems">maxItems</a></td>
+    <td>Now also sets the maximum number of VCF records loaded for the window, which was only
+    configurable server-wide with the hg.conf setting vcfMaxItems (default 10,000).</td>
+</tr>
+
 <tr>
     <td>2026-09-26</td>
     <td>vcf, vcfTabix, vcfPhasedTrio</td>
     <td><a href="trackDbHub.html#excludeFilterValues">excludeFilterValues</a></td>
     <td>New setting. A comma-separated list of FILTER column values whose variants are
     hidden by default. The values are pre-checked in the "Exclude variants with these FILTER
     values" list on the configuration page, and the user can uncheck them.</td>
 </tr>
 
 <tr>
     <td>2026-09-21</td>
     <td>bed, bigBed, bedDetail, bedGraph, bedLogR</td>
     <td><a href="trackDbHub.html#itemRgb">itemRgb</a></td>
     <td>A track that sets both <code>itemRgb on</code> and
     <a href="trackDbHub.html#color">color</a> again takes its item colors from the file's