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+Fee Policy changes
+------------------
+
+The default fee for low-priority transactions is lowered from 0.0005 BTC 
+(for each 1,000 bytes in the transaction; an average transaction is
+about 500 bytes) to 0.0001 BTC.
+
+Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee
+(0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them
+costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually
+cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth.
+
+Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included
+in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are
+included in a block.
+
+The default fee policy can be overridden using the -mintxfee and -minrelaytxfee
+command-line options, but note that we intend to replace the hard-coded fees
+with code that automatically calculates and suggests appropriate fees in the
+0.9 release and note that if you set a fee policy significantly different from
+the rest of the network your transactions may never confirm.
+
+Bitcoin-Qt changes
+------------------
+
+- New icon and splash screen
+- Improve reporting of synchronization process
+- Remove hardcoded fee recommendations
+- Improve metadata of executable on MacOSX and Windows
+- Move export button to individual tabs instead of toolbar
+- Add "send coins" command to context menu in address book
+- Add "copy txid" command to copy transaction IDs from transaction overview
+- Save & restore window size and position when showing & hiding window
+- New translations: Arabic (ar), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Welsh (cy), Esperanto (eo), Interlingua (la), Latvian (lv) and many improvements to current translations
+
+MacOSX:
+
+- OSX support for click-to-pay (bitcoin:) links
+- Fix GUI disappearing problem on MacOSX (issue #1522)
+
+Linux/Unix:
+
+- Copy addresses to middle-mouse-button clipboard
+
+
+Command-line options
+--------------------
+
+* `-walletnotify` will call a command on receiving transactions that affect the wallet.
+* `-alertnotify` will call a command on receiving an alert from the network.
+* `-par` now takes a negative number, to leave a certain amount of cores free.
+
+JSON-RPC API changes
+--------------------
+
+* `listunspent` now lists account and address infromation.
+* `getinfo` now also returns the time adjustment estimated from your peers.
+* `getpeerinfo` now returns bytessent, bytesrecv and syncnode.
+* `gettxoutsetinfo` returns statistics about the unspent transaction output database.
+* `gettxout` returns information about a specific unspent transaction output.
+
+
+Networking changes
+------------------
+
+* Significant changes to the networking code, reducing latency and memory consumption.
+* Avoid initial block download stalling.
+* Remove IRC seeding support.
+* Performance tweaks.
+* Added testnet DNS seeds.
+
+Wallet compatibility/rescuing
+-----------------------------
+
+* Cases where wallets cannot be opened in another version/installation should be reduced.
+* `-salvagewallet` now works for encrypted wallets.
+