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+NFD version 0.7.1
+-----------------
+
+Release date: October 8, 2020
+
+The build requirements have been increased to require Clang >= 4.0, Xcode >= 9.0, and Python 3.
+Meanwhile, it is *recommended* to use GCC >= 7.4.0 and Boost >= 1.65.1.
+This effectively drops official support for Ubuntu 16.04 when using distribution-provided Boost
+packages -- NFD may still work on this platform, but we provide no official support for it.
+Additionally, this release drops support for CentOS 7.
+
+New features
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Allow Ethernet face MTU to adjust to changes in underlying interface MTU (:issue:`3257`)
+
+- Allow face MTU to be overriden via management (:issue:`5056`)
+
+- Deduplicate received link-layer packets when link-layer reliability is enabled (:issue:`5079`)
+
+- Add support for the ``HopLimit`` Interest element (:issue:`4806`)
+
+- Add counter for unsolicited data
+
+Improvements and bug fixes
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Fix PIT entry rejection in ``MulticastStrategy`` upon receiving the same Interest (:issue:`5123`)
+
+- If no face exists when a route is added via nfdc, nfdc will attempt to create it (:issue:`4332`)
+
+- Attach PIT tokens after CS hit (:issue:`5090`)
+
+- ``nfdc cs erase`` will now erase up to the specified count (:issue:`4744`)
+
+- Improve ``LpReliability`` logging (:issue:`5080`)
+
+- Use standard path for Unix stream socket on Linux (:issue:`5039`)
+
+- Adjust timeout sensitivity and avoid ignoring additional probe responses in ASF strategy
+  (:issue:`4983`, :issue:`4193`)
+
+- Bug fixes in config file processing (:issue:`4489`)
+
+- Fix incompatibility with version header in C++20
+
+- Fix integer overflow in PIT ``FaceRecord`` (:issue:`4979`)
+
+- Various improvements to documentation, test suites, and authors list
+
+Removals
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- Delete deprecated uses of default SigningInfo (:issue:`4804`)
+
+- Remove Endpoint IDs from egress APIs (:issue:`4843`, :issue:`4849`, :issue:`4973`)