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+Chad Walters <chad@powerset.com>
+-TJSONProtocol for C++ and Java
+
+Nitay <nitayj@gmail.com>
+-Support for "make check"
+
+William Morgan <w@adap.tv>
+-Miscellaneous Ruby improvements
+
+Ben Maurer <bmaurer@andrew.cmu.edu>
+-Restructuring the way Autoconf is used
+
+Patrick Collison <patrick@collison.ie>
+-Smalltalk bindings
+
+Dave Simpson <dave@powerset.com>
+-Better support for connection tracking in the C++ server
+-Miscellaneous fixes
+
+Igor Afanasyev <afan@evernote.com>
+-Perl HttpClient and bugfixes
+
+Todd Berman <tberman@imeem.com>
+-MinGW port of the compiler
+-C# bindings
+-MS build task
+
+----------------
+Release 20070917
+----------------
+
+Dave Engberg <engberg@gmail.com>
+-JavaBean/JavaDoc enhancements
+
+Andrew McGeachie <geechorama@gmail.com>
+-Cocoa/Objective-C support
+
+Ben Maurer <bmaurer@andrew.cmu.edu>
+-Python performance enhancements, fastbinary support
+
+Andrew Lutomirski <andy@luto.us>
+-Added optional/required keywords for C++ objects
+-Added comparison operators for C++ structs
+
+Johan Oskarsson <johan@oksarsson.nu>
+-Java findbugs compliance fixes
+
+Paul Saab <ps@powerset.com>
+-IPv6 support for TSocket in C++/Python
+
+Kevin Clark <kevin@powerset.com>
+-Significant overhaul of Ruby code generation and servers
+
+Simon Forman <sforman@gmail.com>
+-TProcessorFactory abstraction for Java servers
+
+Jake Luciani <jakers@gmail.com>
+-Perl code generation, libraries, test code
+
+David Reiss <dreiss@stanford.edu>
+-strings.h include fix for bzero
+-endianness fixes on TBinaryProtocol double serialization
+-improved ntohll,htonll implementation
+
+Dan Li <dto@dev.java.net>
+-Java TestServer and Tutorial Fixes
+
+Kevin Ko <kevin.s.ko@gmail.com>
+-Fix for unnecessary std::string copy construction in Protocol/Exception
+
+Paul Querna <pquerna@apache.org>
+-Autoconf error message fix for libevent detection
+-clock_gettime implementation for OSX
+
+----------------
+Release 20070401
+----------------