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 History
 
+2020/10/09: Release Candidate 2 for Version 6.9.6
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+2020/10/09: fix #216: build fails on Windows
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 2020/10/07: Release Candidate 1 for Version 6.9.6
 
 2020/09/30: add configure option --enable-binary-compatible-posix-api