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+0.8.6.1 changes
+=============
+
+- Coin Control - experts only GUI selection of inputs before you send a transaction
+
+- Disable Wallet - reduces memory requirements, helpful for miner or relay nodes
+
+- 20x reduction in default mintxfee.
+
+- Up to 50% faster PoW validation, faster sync and reindexing.
+
+- Peers older than protocol version 70002 are disconnected.  0.8.3.7 is the oldest compatible client.
+
+- Internal miner added back to Litecoin.  setgenerate now works, although it is generally a bad idea as it is significantly slower than external CPU miners.
+
+- New RPC commands: getbestblockhash and verifychain
+
+- Improve fairness of the high priority transaction space per block
+
+- OSX block chain database corruption fixes
+  - Update leveldb to 1.13
+  - Use fcntl with `F_FULLSYNC` instead of fsync on OSX
+  - Use native Darwin memory barriers
+  - Replace use of mmap in leveldb for improved reliability (only on OSX)
+
+- Fix nodes forwarding transactions with empty vins and getting banned
+
+- Network code performance and robustness improvements
+
+- Additional debug.log logging for diagnosis of network problems, log timestamps by default
+
+- Fix rare GUI crash on send
+
 0.8.5.1 changes
 ===============