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+ndn-cxx version 0.8.0
+---------------------
+
+Release date: February 15, 2022
+
+Important changes
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Flip default value of ``CanBePrefix`` to **false** (:issue:`4582`). This means that
+  Interests created without explicitly specifying ``CanBePrefix`` option, will be treaded
+  as Interests for exact Data name.
+
+- Change default name component encoding convention to typed (:issue:`5044`)
+
+- Update TLV-TYPE numbers to revision 3 of the `naming conventions`_
+
+.. _naming conventions:
+   https://named-data.net/publications/techreports/ndn-tr-22-3-ndn-memo-naming-conventions/
+
+- Change TLV-TYPE number of ``IncomingFaceId`` field in NDNLP (:issue:`5185`)
+
+- Update ``Interest::ForwardingHint`` format (:issue:`5187`)
+
+Improvements and bug fixes
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Support certificate name, versionless certificate name, and key name options for
+  KeyLocator name in ``ValidatorConfig`` (:issue:`5142`)
+
+- Fix ``ValidatorConfig`` rule processing bug (:issue:`5145`)
+
+- Generalize signature verification to allow ``digest-sha256``, effectively adding
+  support of digest integrity verification in ``ValidatorConfig``
+
+- Enforce ``sig-type`` check in ``ValidatorConfig`` (:issue:`4524`)
+
+- Refactor and cleanup of ``StatusDatasetContext``, including increase of max payload size
+  of each segment produced by ``StatusDatasetContext`` to 8,000 bytes
+
+- Prevent potential dereferencing of past-the-end iterator in ``Block::value()``
+
+- Fail early in ``Block::blockFromValue()``, if TLV length is zero
+
+- Improve error reporting when loading a ``Certificate`` or ``SafeBag`` fails
+
+- Add API to get the keyword name component for Metadata and Prefix Announcements
+
+- Backport C++20 ``std::span`` and convert most APIs to use it
+
+- Introduce ``time::{to,from}IsoExtendedString()`` utility functions
+
+- Add support for OpenSSL 3.0. Note that because of the API changes, HMAC implementation
+  does not currently work when compiled with OpenSSL 3.0, use older version of OpenSSL
+  when needed.
+
+- Various build system and documentation extension and fixes
+
+Deprecations
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- ``Interest::setDefaultCanBePrefix()``
+
+- ``Name::append(Block)`` overload, as it has confusing semantics (:issue:`5186`)
+
+- ``ndnsec`` tool aliases: ``ndnsec-certgen``, ``ndnsec-dump-certificate``,
+  ``ndnsec-install-cert``, ``ndnsec-keygen``, ``ndnsec-ls-identity``
+
+Removals
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- Previously deprecated ``Signature`` class, its subclasses, and deprecated methods from
+  ``Data``, ``KeyChain``, ``SignatureInfo``, and ``SigningInfo``
+
+- Redundant overloads of ``verifySignature()`` and ``verifyDigest()``
+
+- Previously deprecated ``security/v2`` headers
+
+- Previously deprecated ``CommandInterestSigner``
+
+- Unused ``Transport::send()`` overload
+
+- Remove HTTP download feature in ``ndnsec cert-install``, as it does not support HTTPS
+  retrieval.  The recommended way of installing certificates published over HTTP/HTTPS has
+  been changed to use ``curl`` or ``wget`` (:issue:`4506`)