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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Bug fixes:
 * Fix bug where an invalid event caused server to stop functioning correctly,
   due to parsing and serializing bugs in ujson library.
 
+
 Changes in synapse v0.26.0 (2018-01-05)
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