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+Version 2.1.0 released XXXX-XX-XX
+
+* Fixed error message when parsing an array with trailing comma with speedups
+  http://code.google.com/p/simplejson/issues/detail?id=46
+* Refactor decoder errors to raise JSONDecodeError instead of ValueError
+  http://code.google.com/p/simplejson/issues/detail?id=45
+* New ordered_pairs_hook feature in decoder which makes it possible to
+  preserve key order. http://bugs.python.org/issue5381
+* Fixed containerless unicode float decoding (same bug as 2.0.4, oops!)
+  http://code.google.com/p/simplejson/issues/detail?id=43
+* Share PosInf definition between encoder and decoder
+* Minor reformatting to make it easier to backport simplejson changes
+  to Python 2.7/3.1 json module
+
+Version 2.0.9 released 2009-02-18
+
+* Adds cyclic GC to the Encoder and Scanner speedups, which could've
+  caused uncollectible cycles in some cases when using custom parser
+  or encoder functions
+
+Version 2.0.8 released 2009-02-15
+
+* Documentation fixes
+* Fixes encoding True and False as keys
+* Fixes checking for True and False by identity for several parameters
+
+Version 2.0.7 released 2009-01-04
+
+* Documentation fixes
+* C extension now always returns unicode strings when the input string is
+  unicode, even for empty strings
+
+Version 2.0.6 released 2008-12-19
+
+* Windows build fixes
+
+Version 2.0.5 released 2008-11-23
+
+* Fixes a segfault in the C extension when using check_circular=False and
+  encoding an invalid document
+
+Version 2.0.4 released 2008-10-24
+
+* Fixes a parsing error in the C extension when the JSON document is (only)
+  a floating point number. It would consume one too few characters in that
+  case, and claim the document invalid.
+
+Version 2.0.3 released 2008-10-11
+
+* Fixes reference leaks in the encoding speedups (sorry about that!)
+* Fixes doctest suite for Python 2.6
+* More optimizations for the decoder
+
+Version 2.0.2 released 2008-10-06
+
+* Fixes MSVC2003 build regression
+* Fixes Python 2.4 compatibility in _speedups.c
+
+Version 2.0.1 released 2008-09-29
+
+* Fixes long encoding regression introduced in 2.0.0
+* Fixes MinGW build regression introduced in 2.0.0
+
+Version 2.0.0 released 2008-09-27
+
+* optimized Python encoding path
+* optimized Python decoding path
+* optimized C encoding path
+* optimized C decoding path
+* switched to sphinx docs (nearly the same as the json module in python 2.6)
+
+Version 1.9.3 released 2008-09-23
+
+* Decoding is significantly faster (for our internal benchmarks)
+* Pretty-printing tool changed from simplejson to simplejson.tool for better
+  Python 2.6 comaptibility
+* Misc. bug fixes
+
+Version 1.9 released 2008-05-03
+
+* Rewrote test suite with unittest and doctest (no more nosetest dependency)
+* Better PEP 7 and PEP 8 source compliance
+* Removed simplejson.jsonfilter demo module
+* simplejson.jsonfilter is no longer included
+
+Version 1.8.1 released 2008-03-24
+
+* Optional C extension for accelerating the decoding of JSON strings
+* Command line interface for pretty-printing JSON (via python -msimplejson)
+* Decoding of integers and floats is now extensible (e.g. to use Decimal) via
+  parse_int, parse_float options.
+* Subversion and issue tracker moved to google code:
+  http://code.google.com/p/simplejson/
+* "/" is no longer escaped, so if you're embedding JSON directly in HTML
+  you'll want to use .replace("/", "\\/") to prevent a close-tag attack.
+
+Version 1.7 released 2007-03-18
+
+* Improves encoding performance with an optional C extension to speed up
+  str/unicode encoding (by 10-150x or so), which yields an overall speed
+  boost of 2x+ (JSON is string-heavy).
+* Support for encoding unicode code points outside the BMP to UTF-16
+  surrogate code pairs (specified by the Strings section of RFC 4627).
+
+Version 1.6 released 2007-03-03
+
+* Improved str support for encoding. Previous versions of simplejson
+  integrated strings directly into the output stream, this version ensures
+  they're of a particular encoding (default is UTF-8) so that the output
+  stream is valid.
+
+Version 1.5 released 2007-01-18
+
+* Better Python 2.5 compatibility
+* Better Windows compatibility
+* indent encoding parameter for pretty printing
+* separators encoding parameter for generating optimally compact JSON
+
+Version 1.3 released 2006-04-01
+
+* The optional object_hook function is called upon decoding of any JSON
+  object literal, and its return value is used instead of the dict that
+  would normally be used. This can be used to efficiently implement
+  features such as JSON-RPC class hinting, or other custom decodings of
+  JSON. See the documentation for more information.
+
+Version 1.1 released 2005-12-31
+
+* Renamed from simple_json to simplejson to comply with PEP 8 module naming
+  guidelines
+* Full set of documentation
+* More tests
+* The encoder and decoder have been extended to understand NaN, Infinity, and
+  -Infinity (but this can be turned off via allow_nan=False for strict JSON
+  compliance)
+* The decoder's scanner has been fixed so that it no longer accepts invalid
+  JSON documents
+* The decoder now reports line and column information as well as character
+  numbers for easier debugging
+* The encoder now has a circular reference checker, which can be optionally
+  disabled with check_circular=False
+* dump, dumps, load, loads now accept an optional cls kwarg to use an
+  alternate JSONEncoder or JSONDecoder class for convenience.
+* The read/write compatibility shim for json-py now have deprecation warnings
+ 
+Version 1.0 released 2005-12-25
+
+ * Initial release
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