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+### Changes
+
+* Add a `--checksum` option to the CLI app, minor enhancements in its output
+  ([#135])
+* Various optimizations, run proguard via sbt-proguard ([#129])
+* Drop info attributes more consistently, fixes an incompatibility of the
+  coursier SBT plugin with SBT scala-js 0.6.6 ([#132])
+* Print version in the CLI app help messages ([#130])
+
+[#135]: https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier/pull/135
+[#129]: https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier/pull/129
+[#132]: https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier/pull/132
+[#130]: https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier/pull/130
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+### Changes
+
+* A Java 6 compatible branch was created ([java-6] - as remarked by @fommil,
+  Java 6 is still the official Java version of Scala)
+* Fix a regression in class loader isolation of the `launch` command ([#142])
+* MIMA SBT plugin is added to the `core` and `cache` modules, aiming at backward
+  binary compatibility as of 1.0.0-M8 ([#140])
+* Nicer progress bars in the CLI and SBT plugin output ([#136])
+* Proguarded standalone JAR of the CLI app is now automatically pushed to
+  Sonatype, ([standalone] JAR, [#148]). Should be used as the only dependency of
+  the default launcher in the future.
+
+[java-6]: https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier/tree/topic/java-6
+[#142]: https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier/pull/142
+[#140]: https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier/pull/140
+[#136]: https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier/pull/136
+[#148]: https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier/pull/148
+[standalone]: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/com/github/alexarchambault/coursier-cli_2.11/1.0.0-M8/coursier-cli_2.11-1.0.0-M8-standalone.jar