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+NFD version 0.6.5
+-----------------
+
+Release date: February 4, 2019
+
+Note that this is the last release that encodes to `NDN packet format version 0.2.1
+<https://named-data.net/doc/NDN-packet-spec/0.2.1/>`__. A future release will continue to
+decode v0.2.1 format, but will encode to `v0.3 format
+<https://named-data.net/doc/NDN-packet-spec/0.3/>`__.
+
+New features
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Self-learning forwarding strategy (:issue:`4279`)
+
+- Support IPv6-only WebSocket channels (:issue:`4710`)
+
+- Add satisfied and unsatisfied counters to forwarder status management and tools (:issue:`4720`)
+
+- Report face MTU in faces/list and faces/query datasets (:issue:`4763`)
+
+Improvements and bug fixes
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Stop using the global scheduler in RIB (:issue:`4528`)
+
+- Reimplement auto prefix propagation on top of the readvertise framework (:issue:`3819`)
+
+- Don't set ``SO_BINDTODEVICE`` on Android (:issue:`4761`)
+
+- Set ``EthernetTransport`` UP/DOWN based on netif state (:issue:`3352`)
+
+- Update WebSocket++ to 0.8.1
+
+- Add ``EndpointId`` field in ``NextHop`` record (:issue:`4284`)
+
+- Seed the global PRNG with more entropy
+
+- Use ndn-cxx ``scheduler::ScopedEventId`` (:issue:`4698`)
+
+- Improvements with systemd integration (:issue:`2815`)
+
+Removed
+^^^^^^^
+
+- Remove obsolete upstart files
+
+- Delete deprecated ``ClientControlStrategy`` (:issue:`3783`)