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 Changes in synapse 0.5.2 (2014-11-26)
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-Fix major bug that caused rooms to disspear from peoples initial sync.
+Fix major bug that caused rooms to disappear from peoples initial sync.
 
 Changes in synapse 0.5.1 (2014-11-26)
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