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 Changes in synapse v0.11.0-r1 (2015-11-17)
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-* Retry more aggressively, but fewer times for federation requests that aren't
-  sending transactions.
+* Retry and fail federation requests more aggressively for requests that block
+  client side requests (PR #384)
 
 Changes in synapse v0.11.0 (2015-11-17)
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