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 LMDB 0.9 Change Log
 
+LMDB 0.9.17 Release Engineering
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 LMDB 0.9.16 Release (2015/08/14)
 	Fix cursor EOF bug (ITS#8190)
 	Fix handling of subDB records (ITS#8181)