From 53d228f4eb4f685e8ebaeb2a2c56a3903c7be77e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "mergify[bot]" <37929162+mergify[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 18:56:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] docs: VerifyVoteExtension has to be deterministic (backport
 #17957) (#17977)

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 docs/docs/learn/advanced/00-baseapp.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/docs/learn/advanced/00-baseapp.md b/docs/docs/learn/advanced/00-baseapp.md
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--- a/docs/docs/learn/advanced/00-baseapp.md
+++ b/docs/docs/learn/advanced/00-baseapp.md
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/blob/v0.50.0-alpha.0/baseapp/abci_utils.go#
 
 ### VerifyVoteExtension
 
-`VerifyVoteExtension` allows an application to verify that the data returned by `ExtendVote` is valid. This process does NOT have to be deterministic and the data returned can be unique to the validator process.
+`VerifyVoteExtension` allows an application to verify that the data returned by `ExtendVote` is valid. This process MUST be deterministic. Moreover, the value of ResponseVerifyVoteExtension.status MUST exclusively depend on the parameters passed in the call to RequestVerifyVoteExtension, and the last committed Application state.
 
 In the Cosmos-SDK this is implemented as a NoOp: