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@@ -18,17 +18,17 @@ Bugfixes
 
 - Fix a minor bug in the response to `/_matrix/client/r0/voip/turnServer`. Contributed by @lukaslihotzki. ([\#10922](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10922))
 - Fix a bug where empty `yyyy-mm-dd/` directories would be left behind in the media store's `url_cache_thumbnails/` directory. ([\#10924](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10924))
-- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse v1.40.0 where the signature checks for room version 8/9 could be applied to earlier room versions in some situations. ([\#10927](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10927))
-- Fixes a long-standing bug wherin deactivated users still count towards the mau limit. ([\#10947](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10947))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse v1.40.0 where the signature checks for room version 8 and 9 could be applied to earlier room versions in some situations. ([\#10927](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10927))
+- Fixes a long-standing bug wherein deactivated users still count towards the mau limit. ([\#10947](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10947))
 - Fix a long-standing bug which meant that events received over federation were sometimes incorrectly accepted into the room state. ([\#10956](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10956))
-- Fix a long-standing bug where rebuilding the user directory wouldn't exclude support and disabled users. ([\#10960](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10960))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where rebuilding the user directory wouldn't exclude support and deactivated users. ([\#10960](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10960))
 - Fix [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) `/batch_send` endpoint rejecting subsequent batches with unknown batch ID error in existing room versions from the room creator. ([\#10962](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10962))
 - Fix a bug that could leak local users' per-room nicknames and avatars when the user directory is rebuilt. ([\#10981](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10981))
 - Fix a long-standing bug where the remainder of a batch of user directory changes would be silently dropped if the server left a room early in the batch. ([\#10982](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10982))
-- Correct a bugfix introduced in Synapse v1.44.0 that wouldn't catch every error of the connection breaks before a response could be written to it. ([\#10995](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10995))
-- Fix a long-standing bug where local users' per-room nicknames/avatars were visible to anyone who could see you in the user_directory. ([\#11002](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11002))
+- Correct a bugfix introduced in Synapse v1.44.0 that would catch the wrong error if a connection is lost before a response could be written to it. ([\#10995](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10995))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where local users' per-room nicknames/avatars were visible to anyone who could see you in the user directory. ([\#11002](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11002))
 - Fix a long-standing bug where a user's per-room nickname/avatar would overwrite their profile in the user directory when a room was made public. ([\#11003](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11003))
-- Work around a regression, introduced in Synapse 1.39.0, that caused `SynapseError`s raised by the experimental third-party rules module callback `check_event_allowed` to be ignored. ([\#11042](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11042))
+- Work around a regression, introduced in Synapse v1.39.0, that caused `SynapseError`s raised by the experimental third-party rules module callback `check_event_allowed` to be ignored. ([\#11042](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11042))
 
 
 Improved Documentation
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Internal Changes
 - Add further type hints to `synapse.storage.util`. ([\#10892](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10892))
 - Fix type hints to be compatible with an upcoming change to Twisted. ([\#10895](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10895))
 - Update utility code to handle C implementations of frozendict. ([\#10902](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10902))
-- Drop old functionality which maintained database compatibility with Synapse versions before 1.31. ([\#10903](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10903))
+- Drop old functionality which maintained database compatibility with Synapse versions before v1.31. ([\#10903](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10903))
 - Clean-up configuration helper classes for the `ServerConfig` class. ([\#10915](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10915))
 - Use direct references to config flags. ([\#10916](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10916), [\#10959](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10959), [\#10985](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10985))
 - Clean up some of the federation event authentication code for clarity. ([\#10926](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10926), [\#10940](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10940), [\#10986](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10986), [\#10987](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10987), [\#10988](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10988), [\#11010](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11010), [\#11011](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11011))