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+Upcoming...
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+- IMPORTANT:
+  Custom configuration is now specified in local_options.h rather than options.h
+  Available options and defaults can be seen in default_options.h.in
+
+  To migrate your configuration, compare your customised options.h against the
+  upstream options.h from your relevant version. Any customised options should
+  be put in localoptions.h
+
+- "configure --enable-static" should now be used instead of "make STATIC=1"
+
+- Add group14-256 and group16 key exchange options
+
+- Set hardened build flags by default if supported by the compiler.
+  -Wl,-pie
+  -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,relro
+  -fstack-protector-strong
+  -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
+  # spectre v2 mitigation
+  -mfunction-return=thunk
+  -mindirect-branch=thunk
+
+  These can be disabled with configure --disable-harden if needed
+  Spectre patch from Loganaden Velvindron
+
+- Add runtime -T max_auth_tries option from Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
+
+- Add 'dbclient -J &fd' to allow dbclient to connect over an existing socket.
+  See dbclient manpage for a socat example. Patch from Harald Becker
+
+- Add "-c forced_command" option. Patch from Jeremy Kerr
+
+- Support server-chosen TCP forwarding ports, patch from houseofkodai
+
+- Allow choosing outgoing address for dbclient with -b [bind_address][:bind_port]
+  Patch from houseofkodai
+
+- Update bundled libtomcrypt to 1.18.1, libtommath to 1.0.1
+
+- Minimum RSA key length has been increased to 1024 bits
+
+- Set PAM_RHOST which is needed by modules such as pam_abl
+
+- Improvements to DSS public key validation, found by OSS-Fuzz. 
+
+- Don't exit when an authorized_keys file has malformed entries. Found by OSS-Fuzz
+
+- Fix null-pointer crash with malformed ECDSA or DSS keys. Found by OSS-Fuzz
+
+- Numerous code cleanups and small issues fixed by Francois Perrad
+
+- Test for pkt_sched.h rather than SO_PRIORITY which was problematic with some musl
+  platforms. Reported by Oliver Schneider and Andrew Bainbridge
+
+- Fix some platform portability problems, from Ben Gardner
+
+- Add EXEEXT filename suffix for building dropbearmulti, from William Foster
+
+- Support --enable-<option> properly for configure, from Stefan Hauser
+
+- configure have_openpty result can be cached, from Eric Bénard
+
+- handle platforms that return close() < -1 on failure, from Marco Wenzel
+
+- Build and configuration cleanups from Michael Witten
+
+- Fix libtomcrypt/libtommath linking order, from Andre McCurdy
+
+- Fix old Linux platforms that have SYS_clock_gettime but not CLOCK_MONOTONIC
+
+- Update curve25519-donna implementation to current version
+
 2017.75 - 18 May 2017
 
 - Security: Fix double-free in server TCP listener cleanup