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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
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  -- Restructure the sbcast RPC to take advantage of larger buffers available
     in Slurm v1.3 RPCs.
+ -- Fix several memory leaks.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre10
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