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+4ZEC (1):
+      Correct line swap
+
+Cory Fields (7):
+      release: add _IO_stdin_used to ignored exports
+      release: add check-symbols and check-security make targets
+      release: always link librt for glibc back-compat builds
+      release: add security/symbol checks to gitian
+      depends: allow for CONFIG_SITE to be used rather than stealing prefix
+      gitian: use CONFIG_SITE rather than hijacking the prefix
+      gitian: create debug packages for linux/windows
+
+Daira Hopwood (6):
+      Fix RPC tests to not rely on accounts.
+      Cosmetics in RPC tests.
+      Fix blank lines in DEBIAN/copyright license texts.
+      Move the increment of nWitnessCacheSize to make the later assertions correct.
+      Add another assertion to narrow down where the bug occurs.
+      Add another assertion about the witness cache.
+
+Jack Grigg (25):
+      Update release process to sign release tags
+      WriteWitnessCache: Catch errors and abort transaction
+      Throw an RPC error for all accounts except the default
+      Update tests for account deprecation
+      Deprecated -> Unsupported in RPC error
+      Correct docstring
+      Add unit tests for WriteWitnessCache
+      Document CWalletTx::FindMyNotes
+      Refactor test to clarify expectations
+      Add unit test that fails when calling FindMyNotes on a locked wallet
+      Add RPC test showing correct handling of JS txns from blockchain
+      Break the RPC test by encrypting the mirroring wallet
+      Delay caching of nullifiers when wallet is locked
+      Update comments
+      Only ignore runtime errors caused by failed note decryption
+      Remaining changes from bitcoin/bitcoin#6854
+      [gitian] Don't call "make check-symbols"
+      Fix Makefiles so "make dist" will run
+      Render full version correctly in configure.ac
+      Update libsnark to include determinism fix
+      Address review comments
+      Add more asserts to track down the bug
+      Increment witnesses for new transactions on rescan
+      Add clear error message for upgrading users
+      Set CBlockIndex.hashAnchor correctly in ConnectBlock
+
+Jay Graber (17):
+      Document wallet reindexing for z_importkey description in payment-api.md
+      Rm beta 1 release note about encrypted wallets
+      Note that Coinbase maturity interval does not protect JoinSplits
+      Refer to Zcash wiki in INSTALL
+      Rm bitcoin logo
+      Rm build-unix.md, to keep single copy of build instructions for Zcash on github wiki
+      Rm Bitcoin-specific documentation
+      Add note that document is not updated for Zcash to translation policy
+      Rm doc for disabled REST interface
+      Change alpha to beta testnet, add zcash hidden service
+      Improve documentation on connecting to zcash hidden server
+      Improve documentation on connecting to zcash hidden server
+      Update tor.md
+      Distinguish between connecting to 1 vs multiple tor nodes
+      Revert "Rm Bitcoin-specific documentation"
+      Mv btc release notes to doc/bitcoin-release-notes
+      Reword joinsplit anchor paragraph
+
+Kevin Gallagher (24):
+      Set wget retry options for fetching parameters
+      Increases timeout to 30s, wait before retry to 3s
+      Initial packaging for Debian
+      Moves zcash-fetch-params to /usr/bin
+      Adds newline between source and package definition
+      Adds copyright file back to Debian package
+      Updates Linux gitian descriptor file for Zcash
+      Updates trusty -> jessie in Gitian Linux descriptor
+      Adds distro: debian to gitian-linux.yml
+      Updates Gitian descriptor for Zcash
+      Removes Windows and OSX packaging from EXTRA_DIST
+      Moves V=1 and NO_QT=1 to MAKEOPTS
+      Include contrib/devtools/split-debug.sh from upstream
+      Adds faketime to Gitian build dependencies
+      Inlude crypto/equihash.tcc in list of sources for dist
+      Adds zcash/Zcash.h to LIBZCASH sources
+      Adds zcash/Proof.hpp to LIBZCASH_H
+      Add alertkeys.h to libbitcoin_server_a_SOURCES
+      Adds files in src/zcash/circuit to libzcash_a_SOURCES
+      Adds zcbenchmarks.h to libbitcoin_wallet_a_SOURCES
+      Adds json_test_vectors.h to zcash_gtest_SOURCES
+      Adds additional licenses to Debian copyright file
+      Updates Zcash Core developers -> Zcash developers
+      Adds . to blank lines in Google license
+
+MarcoFalke (3):
+      [gitian] Set reference date to something more recent
+      [gitian] Default reference_datetime to commit author date
+      [gitian] hardcode datetime for depends
+
+Sean Bowe (1):
+      Make 100KB transaction size limit a consensus rule, rather than a standard rule.
+
+Simon (11):
+      Add vjoinsplit to JSON output of RPC call gettransaction
+      Fixes #1478 by ensuring wallet tests have the -datadir environment set appropriately.
+      Fixes #1491 by updating help message for rpc call z_importkey
+      Fix incorrect check of number of parameters for z_getnewaddress.
+      Add tests to verify that all z_* rpc calls return an error if there are too many input parameters.
+      Rename client identifier from Satoshi to MagicBean (closes #1481)
+      Use -debug=zrpc for z_* rpc calls (#1504)
+      Document CWallet::GetFilteredNotes and fix return type which should be void.
+      Fix test so that the encrypted wallet is output to the test_bitcoin -datadir folder.
+      Reorder gtests in zcash-gtest.
+      Return improved error message when trying to spend Coinbase coins (#1373).
+
+Wladimir J. van der Laan (6):
+      devtools: add libraries for bitcoin-qt to symbol check
+      gitian: use trusty for building
+      gitian: make windows build deterministic
+      gitian: Need `ca-certificates` and `python` for LXC builds
+      build: Remove unnecessary executables from gitian release
+      gitian: Add --disable-bench to config flags for windows
+