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-2017-04-25 Viktor Gal <viktor.gal@shogun-toolbox.org>
+2017-11-28 Viktor Gal <viktor.gal@shogun-toolbox.org>
 
 	* SHOGUN Release version 6.1.0 (libshogun 18.0, data 0.11, parameter 1)
 
+	* This release is dedicated for Heiko's successful PhD defense
+
 	* Add conda-forge packages, to get prebuilt binaries via the cross-platform conda package manager [Dougal Sutherland]
+	* Change interface cmake variables to INTERFACE_*
+	* Move GPL code to gpl submodule [Heiko Strathmann]
 
 	* Features:
 		- Enable using BLAS/LAPACK from Eigen by default [Viktor Gal]
+		- Add iterators to SGVector and SGMatrix [Viktor Gal]
+		- Significantly lower the runtime of KernelPCA (GSoC '17) [Michele Mazzoni]
+		- Refactor FisherLDA and LDA solvers (GSoC '17) [Michele Mazzoni]
+		- Add automated test for trained model serialization (GSoC '17) [Michele Mazzoni]
+		- Enable SWIG director classes by default [Viktor Gal]
+		- Vectorize DotFeatures covariance/mean calculation [Michele Mazzoni]
+		- Support for premature stopping of model training (GSoC '17) [Giovanni De Toni]
+		- Add support for observable variables (GSoC '17) [Giovanni De Toni]
+		- Use TFLogger to serialize observed variables for TensorBoard (GSoC '17) [Giovanni De Toni]
+		- Drop CMath::dot and SGVector::dot and use linalg::dot [Viktor Gal]
+		- Added class probabilities for BaggingMachine (GSoC '17) [Olivier Nguyen]
 	* Bugfixes:
 		- Fix transpose bug in Ruby typemap for matrices [Elias Saalmann]
+		- Fix MKL detection and linking; use mkl_rt when available [Viktor Gal]
+		- Fix Windows static linking [Viktor Gal]
+		- Fix SWIG interface compilation on Windows [qcrist]
+		- Fix CircularBuffer bug that broke parsing of big CSV and LibSVM files #1991 [Viktor Gal]
+		- Fix R interface when using clang to compile the interface [Viktor Gal]
 
 2016-11-05 Viktor Gal <viktor.gal@shogun-toolbox.org>