diff --git a/.nextchanges/cli/5888-ssh-connect-env-interpreter.md b/.nextchanges/cli/5888-ssh-connect-env-interpreter.md
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+experimental `ssh connect`: bare `python`/`pip` in an interactive session now resolve to the environment interpreter (`$DATABRICKS_VIRTUAL_ENV`) instead of the system or cluster-libraries interpreter, so packages installed in the environment are importable without extra setup. The interactive shell is now non-login (`bash -i`) and the server seeds a `~/.bashrc` snippet that re-prepends the environment's bin directory to `PATH` ([#5888](https://github.com/databricks/cli/pull/5888)).
diff --git a/NEXT_CHANGELOG.md b/NEXT_CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-# NEXT CHANGELOG
-
-## Release v1.8.0
-
-### Notable Changes
-
-### CLI
-
-* experimental `ssh connect`: bare `python`/`pip` in an interactive session now resolve to the environment interpreter (`$DATABRICKS_VIRTUAL_ENV`) instead of the system or cluster-libraries interpreter, so packages installed in the environment are importable without extra setup. The interactive shell is now non-login (`bash -i`) and the server seeds a `~/.bashrc` snippet that re-prepends the environment's bin directory to `PATH` ([#5888](https://github.com/databricks/cli/pull/5888)).
-
-### Bundles
-
-### Dependency updates
-
-### API Changes
diff --git a/acceptance/bundle/resource_deps/volume_path_job_ref/test.toml b/acceptance/bundle/resource_deps/volume_path_job_ref/test.toml
index 77681b7380c..b53e5e7fbe8 100644
--- a/acceptance/bundle/resource_deps/volume_path_job_ref/test.toml
+++ b/acceptance/bundle/resource_deps/volume_path_job_ref/test.toml
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ RecordRequests = true
 # Direct-engine only: this scenario embeds a reference to a remote field
 # (jobs.foo.creator_user_name, known only after deploy) into volume_path. The
 # direct engine resolves it at deploy; Terraform cannot export that attribute,
-# so the case is unsupported there (see NEXT_CHANGELOG.md). Direct is the
+# so the case is unsupported there (see CHANGELOG.md). Direct is the
 # default engine, so the motivating use case works out of the box.
 EnvMatrix.DATABRICKS_BUNDLE_ENGINE = ["direct"]