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+Version 3.5.3 (2017-10-05)
+  Friendica Core:
+    Updates to the translations (DE, EN-GB, EN-US, ES, ZH-CN) [translation teams]
+    Updates to the documentation [annando, tobiasd]
+    Code revision and refactoring [annando, rabuzarus, Hypolite]
+    Fix parsing of documentation and addon README files [tobiasd]
+    Fix a problem with MySQLi [annando]
+    Fix a problem with endless scroll [annando]
+    Fix a problem with the display of birthday dates on the profile page [irhen]
+    Fix a problem with the Vagrant config [silke, tobiasd]
+    Fix for a bug in picture upload via the API [annando]
+    Enhancements to the database structure and handling [annando, Alkarex]
+    Enhancements to the exception handling [ddorian1]
+    Enhancements to the OStatus federation (Mastodon and Pleroma) [annando]
+    Enhancements to the Libertree federation [annando]
+    Enhancements to the Diaspora federation (Diaspora and SocialHome) [annando]
+    Enhancements to the invitation procedure [tobiasd]
+    Enhancements to the themes (frio, globally all) [annando, rabuzarus]
+    Enhancements to the community page [annando]
+    Enhancements to the ACL selection dialog [annando]
+    Enhancements to the item expiration [annando]
+    Enhancements to the detection of Hubzilla and red nodes [zotlabs]
+    Enhancements to the background process/worker system [annando]
+    Enhancements to the UI [annando, AndyHee, tobiasd]
+    Enhancements to the handling of unicode smilies [annando]
+    Enhancements to the remote_self functionality [annando]
+    Enhancements to the nginx example config [shaftoe]
+    Enhancements to the detection of edited postings [annando]
+    The logging time stamp is now ISO8601 compatible [annando]
+    Pictures attached to OStatus transmitted postings are now shown [annando]
+    Added item deletion page to the admin panel [tobiasd]
+    Added link to the global directory from the contacts page [rjm6823]
+    Added JSON/JRD support to Webfinger [annando]
+    Added security and privacy related headers [annando]
+    Removed the external pubsubhubbub service support [annando]
+
+  Friendica Addons:
+    Updates to the translations (ES, ZH-CN) [translation teams]
+    Updates to the documentation [tobiasd]
+    Code revision and refactoring [Hypolite]
+    pumpio, twitter bridges adopted to new background mechanism [annando]
+    Leistungsschutzrecht has a new source list, and a whitelist [annando]
+    retriever marked unsupported due to unwanted side-effects [annando]
+    Unicode emoji added [annando]
+    Enhancement to the general content filter [annando]
+    Fixes to buffer, diaspora, libertree, pumpio, gnu social, tumblr, twitter and wppost bridges to redistribute remote_self content [annando]
+    Fixed a bug in securemail settings form [FuzzJunket]
+    external poller addons are deprecated, as this is now a core functionality [annando]
+  
+  Friendica Directory:
+    Fix a problem with the Vagrant config [tobiasd]
+    Fix not working node health page [Hypolite]
+    Fix some old links [Hypolite]
+
+  Closed Issues:
+    1257, 2786, 2864, 2872, 2998, 3013, 3018, 3131, 3180, 3234, 3248,
+    3309, 3313, 3360, 3362, 3391, 3482, 3511, 3512, 3515, 3516, 3529,
+    3531, 3536, 3545, 3552, 3553, 3560, 3571, 3589, 3592, 3599, 3615,
+    3616, 3621, 3624, 3636, 3645, 3661, 3684, 3685, 3691, 3696, 3699, 
+    3700, 3732
+
 Version 3.5.2 (2017-06-06)
   Friendica Core:
     Updates to the translations (DE, EN-GB, EN-US, ES, IT, PT-BR, RU) [translation teams]