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 Changes in synapse v0.7.1 (2015-02-19)
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+* Initial alpha implementation of parts of the Application Services API.
+  Including:
+
+  - AS Registration / Unregistration
+  - User Query API
+  - Room Alias Query API
+  - Push transport for receiving events.
+  - User/Alias namespace admin control
+
 * Add cache when fetching events from remote servers to stop repeatedly
   fetching events with bad signatures.
 * Respect the per remote server retry scheme when fetching both events and