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+__FreeREG | Release Notes__
+  =======================
+  11-01-2019
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+  __New Features__
+  ----------------
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+  * None
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+  __Improvements__
+  ----------------
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+  * Issue 1350 - Transcriber (etc) can contact ExDir, SC, CC, etc via buttons from landing page
+  * Issue 1687 - Keep 'Archive' and set messages to be destroyed after expiry period 
+  * Issue 1157 - Improvement made to make it more obvious how to locate an attachment in the messaging system 
+  * Issue 1726 - Amended text on message to to 'If replying to this message, for security and privacy reasons, please use the message system'
+  * Issue 1351 - Added Tickybox to record that a message sent to an individual has been answered by the individual outside the system
+  * Issue 1096 - Added check for orphan entries
+  * Issue 1747 - Fix deployed for Errbit error - [production][freereg_contents#show_church] NoMethodError: undefined method `county' for nil:NilClass
+  * Issue 1746 - Fix deployed for Errbit error - [production][freereg1_csv_entries#create] Mongoid::Errors::InvalidFind: message:
+  * Issue 1745 - Fix deployed for Errbit error - [production][image_server_images#move] NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
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+  __Fixes__
+  ---------
+
+  * Issue 1740 - Fix deployed for Errbit error - [production][contacts#create] NoMethodError: undefined method `userid' for nil:NilClass
+  * Issue 1743 - Fix deployed for Errbit error - [production][contacts#show] NoMethodError: undefined method `register' for nil:NilClass
+
+
+  __Change Log__
+  ----------------
+
+  Change log listing all commit messages for this release.
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+* Further text improvements for missing record
+* Change text of error message in the light of the use of friendly  urls
+* Do not create a image file name  if one already exists in the group
+* Update new.html.erb
+* Update new.html.erb
+* Update delete_or_archive_old_messages_feedbacks_and_contacts.rb
+* add config
+* Update delete_or_archive_old_messages_feedbacks_and_contacts.rb
+* Preliminary version
+* Final version
+* Update check_image_availability.rb
+* Update check_image_availability.rb
+* initial version
+* Update messages_helper.rb
+* tidy up
+* trap a condition that should never occur
+* Update freereg_contents_controller.rb
+* mailer changes
+* Revert "mailer changes"
+* This reverts commit 72f3eca9f0e60e54938edd60c8bc062be0209d6a.
+* mailer changes
+* Update check_and_delete_orphan_records.rb
+* Update check_and_delete_orphan_records.rb
+* Update check_and_delete_orphan_records.rb
+* Update check_and_delete_orphan_records.rb
+* add sleep option
+* Initial rake task
+* add comments to communications
+* Evaluation version
+* remove a stray blank
+* Update messages_helper.rb
+* Update send_message.html.erb
+* Added extra guard cause
+* missing coordinator trap
+* remove print
+* Improve email
+* Improve attachment visibility
+* Clean up contact/feedback integration
+* Fix feedback integration
+* review version
+* past christmas hold
+* Christmas hold
+* holding
+* phase 1b
+* Phase 1a miised a component
+* phase 1 
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