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+Overview of changes leading to 0.9.40
+Friday, March 20, 2015
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+
+- Another hb-coretext crasher fix.  Ouch!
+- Happy Norouz!
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 0.9.39
 Wednesday, March 4, 2015
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