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+  o Major bugfixes (conflux):
+    - Fix a relay-side crash caused by side effects of the fix for bug
+      40827. Reverts part of that fix that caused the crash and adds
+      additional log messages to help find the root cause. Fixes bug
+      40834; bugfix on 0.4.8.3-rc.