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@@ -5,6 +5,22 @@ These release notes can also be consulted at http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en
 
 The latest version of easybuild-easyblocks provides 179 software-specific easyblocks and 30 generic easyblocks.
 
+v3.0.2 (December 21st 2016)
+---------------------------
+
+bugfix release
+- various enhancements, including:
+  - modify DL_POLY_Classic easyblock to support building with Plumed support (REVIEW)   (#829)
+  - make the allinea easyblock search for the templates in the easyconfig paths   (#1025)
+  - skip RPATH sanity check for binary installations   (#1056)
+  - pass CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Boost Bjam   (#1064)
+  - make FortranPythonPackage aware of (pre)buildopts   (#1065)
+  - make pip ignore already installed versions of the package being installed   (#1066)
+  - update sanity check for Mono to support recent versions   (#1069)
+- various bug fixes, including:
+  - don't pass empty string as custom installopts for numpy in test_step   (#1067)
+
+
 v3.0.1 (November 30th 2016)
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