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 2017-12-14 Viktor Gal <viktor.gal@shogun-toolbox.org>
 
-	* SHOGUN Release version 6.2.0 (libshogun 18.0, data 0.11, parameter 1)
+	* SHOGUN Release version 7.0.0 (libshogun 18.0, data 0.11, parameter 1)
+
+    * First BSD 3-clause license release (see LICENSE file) [Heiko Strathmann,
+      Viktor Gal, Esben Sørig]
+    * Introduced new API based on generic put/get calls, factory methods, and
+      fewer types. Used in examples. Requires Swig>=3.0.12 [Heiko Strathmann,
+      Sergey Lisitsyn, Viktor Gal, Esben Sørig]
+
+    * Features:
+        - Introduce automatic label conversion if inappropriate type is passed
+          [Heiko Strathmann]
+		- Replace many CMath calls with std [Akash Shivram, Yash Sharma, 
+          Shubham Shukla, Albert Sun, Viktor Gal, Heiko Strathmann, Esben Sørig]
+        - Ported equals and clone methods to new tag-based parameter framework
+          [Heiko Strathmann, Sergey Lisitsyn]
+        - Removal of computation engine framework and parallelisation of
+          log-determinant estimators [Shubham Shukla]
+        - Upgrade bundled eigen to 3.3.4 [Vikor Gal]
+        - Efficiency improvements for MahalanobisDistance, LMNN, ridge regression,
+          GMM, and the linalg framework [Wuwei Lin]
+        - Add LDLT decomposition to linalg [Wuwei Lin]
+        - New DotIterator API for more efficient and cleaner algorithm code
+          [Michele Mazzoni]
+        - Numpy>=1.7 is now required [Viktor Gal]
+        - Relicensed libqp and libocas to BSD, thanks to Vojtech Franc [Viktor Gal]
+        - Added a time-series cross-validation splitting strategy [Sahil Chaddha]
+        - Drop obsolute VW codes [Saloni Nigam]
+        - Many new examples [various contributors]
+    * Bugfixes:
+        - Enable Shogun's custom signal handler by default [Giovanni De Toni]
+        - Various fixes for native Windows build [Viktor Gal]
+        - Fix bugs in Ruby NArray typemaps [Heiko Strathmann, Viktor Gal]
+        - Fix/refactor Platt probability scaling for SVMSs [durovo <aryadhruv@gmail.com>]
+        - Bugfix for train-test ratio in statistical testing [Soumyajit De]
+        - Bugfix for custom kernels in MKL [David <dhelekal>]
+        - json build error fix [Andrew Wildman]
+        - Fix segfault in ROC error message [Chinmay Kousik]
+        - Fix potential memory leak in GMM [Marcus Edel]
+    * Known issues:
+        - Ruby examples do not work with new API due to potential swig bug, see
+          https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/issues/4177. Old API
+          functional.
 
 2017-12-05 Viktor Gal <viktor.gal@shogun-toolbox.org>
 
-	* SHOGUN Release version 6.1.3 (libshogun 18.0, data 0.11, parameter 1)
+	* SHOG UN Release version 6.1.3 (libshogun 18.0, data 0.11, parameter 1)
 
 	* Features:
 		- Drop all <math.h> function calls [Viktor Gal]