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+RELEASE NOTES FOR MWCLIENT
+
+This is mwclient 0.6.2. The following are the release notes for this version.
+
+== Changes in version 0.6.2 ==
+Mwclient was released on 2 May 2009.
+* Compatibility fixes for MediaWiki 1.13
+* Download fix for images
+* Full support for editing pages via write api and split of compatibility to
+  another file.
+* Added expandtemplates api call
+* Added and fixed moving via API
+* Raise an ApiDisabledError is the API is disabled
+* Added support for HTTPS
+* Fixed email code
+* Mark edits as bots by default.
+* Added action=parse. Modified patch by Brian Mingus.
+* Improved general HTTP and upload handling.
+
+== Changes in version 0.6.1 and 0.6.0 ==
+Mwclient 0.6.1 was released in February 2008. No release notes were kept for 
+that version. It was the first official release via Sourceforge.