diff --git a/changes/bug17744_redux b/changes/bug17744_redux
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-  o Minor bugfixes (build):
-    - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
-      configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix on
-      0.2.8.2-alpha.
-
diff --git a/changes/bug18133 b/changes/bug18133
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-  o Minor bugfixes (logging):
-    - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is set,
-      do not imply that we should have been able to load it.
-      Fixes bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
diff --git a/changes/bug18286 b/changes/bug18286
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-  o Minor features (build):
-    - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development branch
-      (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes ticket 18286.
-
-
diff --git a/changes/bug18312 b/changes/bug18312
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-  o Documentation:
-    - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
-      MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
-
diff --git a/changes/bug18460 b/changes/bug18460
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-  o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
-    - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-request statistics.
-      Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
-
diff --git a/changes/bug18481 b/changes/bug18481
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-  o Minor bugfixes (client):
-    - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options. This
-      changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of them and
-      they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled anymore. Fixes
-      bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
diff --git a/changes/bug18616 b/changes/bug18616
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-  o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
-    - Decide whether to advertise begindir support the same way we decide
-      whether to advertise our DirPort. These decisions being out of sync
-      led to surprising behavior like advertising begindir support when
-      our hibernation config options made us not advertise a DirPort.
-      Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
-
-  o Minor bugfixes:
-    - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to regenerate
-      their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
-    - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort reachability
-      check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while fixing bug
-      18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
-
diff --git a/changes/bug18673 b/changes/bug18673
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-  o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
-    - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
-      TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on.  Fixes bug 18673;
-      bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
diff --git a/changes/bug18686 b/changes/bug18686
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-  o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
-    - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't
-      need to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already
-      exited. Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
-
diff --git a/changes/bug18710 b/changes/bug18710
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-  o Major bugfixes (DNS proxy):
-    - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
-      received a query with multiple address types, where the first
-      address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
-      Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
-
diff --git a/changes/bug18716 b/changes/bug18716
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-  o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
-    - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
-      shorter than the size of a pointer.
-      Fixes bug 18716; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha
diff --git a/changes/bug18728 b/changes/bug18728
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-  o Minor bugfixes (build):
-    - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
-      signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha and 
-      0.2.6.1-alpha.
diff --git a/changes/bug18729 b/changes/bug18729
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-  o Minor features (logging):
-    - Stop blasting twelve lines per second from periodic_event_dispatch()
-      at loglevel debug. Resolves ticket 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
diff --git a/changes/bug18761 b/changes/bug18761
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-  o Minor feature (logging):
-    - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at PROTOCOL_WARN
-      severity. Closes ticket 18761.
diff --git a/changes/bug18816 b/changes/bug18816
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-  o Minor bugfix (bootstrap):
-    - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for
-      authority certificates.
-      Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
diff --git a/changes/bug18841.1 b/changes/bug18841.1
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-  o Major bugfixes (compilation):
-    - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
-      is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
-      cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail.
-      Fixes one case of bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from
-      "trudokal".
-
diff --git a/changes/bug18920 b/changes/bug18920
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-  o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
-    - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the control
-      specification by returning "551 Could not open cached consensus..."
-      when not caching consensuses.
-      Fixes bug 18920; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
diff --git a/changes/bug18921 b/changes/bug18921
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-  o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges):
-    - Fix directory address selection for IPv6 bridges.
-      Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
-      Patch by "teor".
diff --git a/changes/bug18929 b/changes/bug18929
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-  o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
-    - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for
-      IPv6-only clients and clients with few reachable addresses.
-      Fixes bug 18929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
-      Patch by "teor".
diff --git a/changes/bug18943 b/changes/bug18943
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-  o Major bugfixes (crypto, portability):
-    - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on
-      Big Endian systems, unbreaking the unit tests.  No code calls
-      either algorithm family yet, so this is primarily a build fix.
-      Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
-
diff --git a/changes/bug18977 b/changes/bug18977
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-  o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
-    - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
-      field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows.
-      Fixes bug 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
diff --git a/changes/bug19003 b/changes/bug19003
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-  o Minor bugfixes (small networks):
-    - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by
-      skipping DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits.
-      Fixes bug 19003; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
-      Patch by teor.
diff --git a/changes/bug19008 b/changes/bug19008
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-  o Major bugfixes (testing):
-    - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems
-      where IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on tor-0.2.7.3-rc.
diff --git a/changes/bug19032 b/changes/bug19032
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-  o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
-    - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when the
-      list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes bug 19032;
-      bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
diff --git a/changes/doc17621 b/changes/doc17621
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-  o Documentation:
-    - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the manual
-      page. Closes ticket 17621.
diff --git a/changes/fallbacks-201604 b/changes/fallbacks-201604
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-  o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
-    - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection;
-      restrict fallbacks to one per operator;
-      report fallback directory detail changes when rebuilding list;
-      add new fallback directory mirrors to the whitelist;
-      update fallback directories based on the latest OnionOO data;
-      and any other minor simplifications and fixes.
-      Closes tasks 17158, 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of
-      bug 18812 on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
diff --git a/changes/feature18483 b/changes/feature18483
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-  o Minor features (clients):
-    - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always
-      use an encrypted begindir connection for directory requests.
-      Resolves ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
diff --git a/changes/geoip-april2016 b/changes/geoip-april2016
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-  o Minor features (geoip):
-    - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
-      Country database.
-
diff --git a/changes/geoip-may2016 b/changes/geoip-may2016
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-  o Minor features (geoip):
-    - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
-      Country database.
-