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+Release Notes for Thrift 20080411
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+.equals and .hashCode() for Java scturcts (developed by dreiss).
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+Improvments to the C++ TSocketPool (developed by akhil).
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+PHP (de)serialization extension (developed by dweatherford).
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+Add fb303 to contrib (developed by Facebook).
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+TJSONProtocol for C++ and Java (contributed by Chad Walters of Powerset).
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+Support for "make check" and better tests (contributed by Nitay).
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+Smalltalk support (contributed by Patrick Collison).
+
+Dave Simpson <dave@powerset.com>
+Better support for connection tracking in the C++ server (contributed by
+Dave Simpson of Powerset).
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+Perl HttpClient (contributed by Igor Afanasyev of Evernote).
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+C# support (contributed by Todd Berman of imeem).
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+MinGW port of the compiler (contributed by Todd Berman of imeem).
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+Tons of small improvements and bug fixes.
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+
 Release Notes for Thrift 20070917
 
 TBinaryProtocol now includes a protocol version number in messaged.