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  Sat Sep 26 21:56:05 2026 -0700
VCF tracks: new trackDb setting excludeFilterValues, a comma-separated list of FILTER values that are hidden by default; they show up pre-checked in the existing Exclude variants with these FILTER values list, refs #38424

diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/trackDb/changes.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/trackDb/changes.html
index 75ef51ebe3d..90895db7ea9 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>2026-09-26</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>2026-09-18</td>
     <td>all</td>
     <td><a href="trackDbHub.html#html">html</a></td>
     <td>A hub's track description page now has variables substituted into it.
     <code>${db}</code>, <code>${organism}</code>, <code>${Organism}</code>,
     <code>${ORGANISM}</code>, <code>${date}</code> and <code>${downloadsServer}</code> were
     already available on UCSC's own track descriptions and now work in a hub's as well.
     <code>${track}</code> and <code>${parentTrack}</code> are new: they give a track's name
     and the name of its container in the form the Genome Browser uses, so the page of a
     track inside a <a href="trackDbHub.html#compositeTrack">compositeTrack</a> or a
     <a href="trackDbHub.html#superTrack">superTrack</a> can link back to the container's own
     page. A dollar sign followed by anything else is left alone.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>