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 NOTE: Specific #s below correspond to Trac tickets logged and maintained at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/
 
 1.0.8 (includes 1.0.7.3 and 1.0.7.2)
+- new external/Makefile and git submodules
 - fixed tor control port cookie file path lookup related to #5305 
 - updated strings
 - adding in manual locale selection