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@@ -20,60 +20,61 @@ Features:
 
 * Add a Dockerfile for synapse (PR #2846) Thanks to @kaiyou!
 
-Changes:
+Changes - General:
 
 * nuke-room-from-db.sh: added postgresql option and help (PR #2337) Thanks to @rubo77!
+* Part user from rooms on account deactivate (PR #3201)
 * Make 'unexpected logging context' into warnings (PR #3007)
-* Open certificate files as bytes (PR #3084) Thanks to @NotAFile!
-* Open config file in non-bytes mode (PR #3085) Thanks to @NotAFile!
-* Make event properties raise AttributeError instead (PR #3102) Thanks to @NotAFile!
-* Use six.moves.urlparse (PR #3108) Thanks to @NotAFile!
-* Use deferred.addTimeout instead of time_bound_deferred (PR #3127)
+* Set Server header in SynapseRequest (PR #3208)
+* Use deferred.addTimeout instead of time_bound_deferred (PR #3127, #3178)
 * remove duplicates from groups tables (PR #3129)
-* Miscellaneous fixes to python_dependencies (PR #3136)
 * Improve exception handling for background processes (PR #3138)
 * Add missing consumeErrors to improve exception handling (PR #3139)
 * Use run_in_background in preference to preserve_fn (PR #3140)
-* Refactor event storage to prepare for changes in state calculations (PR #3141)
 * reraise exceptions more carefully (PR #3142)
 * Remove redundant call to preserve_fn (PR #3143)
 * Trap exceptions thrown within run_in_background (PR #3144)
-* Add py3 tests to tox with folders that work (PR #3145) Thanks to @NotAFile!
-* Don't yield in list comprehensions (PR #3150) Thanks to @NotAFile!
-* Move more xrange to six (PR #3151) Thanks to @NotAFile!
-* make imports local (PR #3152) Thanks to @NotAFile!
-* move httplib import to six (PR #3153) Thanks to @NotAFile!
-* Replace stringIO imports with six (PR #3154) Thanks to @NotAFile!
-* more bytes strings (PR #3155) Thanks to @NotAFile!
-* Construct HMAC as bytes on py3 (PR #3156) Thanks to @NotAFile!
-* run config tests on py3 (PR #3159) Thanks to @NotAFile!
-* add guard for None on purge_history api (PR #3160) Thanks to @krombel!
+
+Changes - Refactors:
+
 * Refactor /context to reuse pagination storage functions (PR #3193)
 * Refactor recent events func to use pagination func (PR #3195)
 * Refactor pagination DB API to return concrete type (PR #3196)
 * Refactor get_recent_events_for_room return type (PR #3198)
 * Refactor sync APIs to reuse pagination API (PR #3199)
 * Remove unused code path from member change DB func (PR #3200)
-* Part user from rooms on account deactivate (PR #3201)
 * Refactor request handling wrappers (PR #3203)
 * transaction_id, destination defined twice (PR #3209) Thanks to @damir-manapov!
+* Refactor event storage to prepare for changes in state calculations (PR #3141)
+
+Changes - Python 3 migration:
+
+* Construct HMAC as bytes on py3 (PR #3156) Thanks to @NotAFile!
+* run config tests on py3 (PR #3159) Thanks to @NotAFile!
+* Open certificate files as bytes (PR #3084) Thanks to @NotAFile!
+* Open config file in non-bytes mode (PR #3085) Thanks to @NotAFile!
+* Make event properties raise AttributeError instead (PR #3102) Thanks to @NotAFile!
+* Use six.moves.urlparse (PR #3108) Thanks to @NotAFile!
+* Add py3 tests to tox with folders that work (PR #3145) Thanks to @NotAFile!
+* Don't yield in list comprehensions (PR #3150) Thanks to @NotAFile!
+* Move more xrange to six (PR #3151) Thanks to @NotAFile!
+* make imports local (PR #3152) Thanks to @NotAFile!
+* move httplib import to six (PR #3153) Thanks to @NotAFile!
+* Replace stringIO imports with six (PR #3154, #3168) Thanks to @NotAFile!
+* more bytes strings (PR #3155) Thanks to @NotAFile!
 
 Bug Fixes:
 
-* synapse fails to start under Twisted >= 18.4 (PR #3135)
-* Fix incorrect reference to StringIO (PR #3168)
+* synapse fails to start under Twisted >= 18.4 (PR #3157)
 * Fix a class of logcontext leaks (PR #3170)
 * Fix a couple of logcontext leaks in unit tests (PR #3172)
 * Fix logcontext leak in media repo (PR #3174)
-* Escape label values in prometheus metrics (PR #3175)
-* fix http request timeout code (PR #3178)
+* Escape label values in prometheus metrics (PR #3175, #3186)
 * Fix 'Unhandled Error' logs with Twisted 18.4 (PR #3182) Thanks to @Half-Shot!
 * Fix logcontext leaks in rate limiter (PR #3183)
-* Fix metrics that have integer value labels (PR #3186)
 * notifications: Convert next_token to string according to the spec (PR #3190) Thanks to @mujx!
 * nuke-room-from-db.sh: fix deletion from search table (PR #3194) Thanks to @rubo77!
-* Set Server header in SynapseRequest (PR #3208)
-
+* add guard for None on purge_history api (PR #3160) Thanks to @krombel!
 
 Changes in synapse v0.28.1 (2018-05-01)
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