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+* Release 0.12 (06 Feb 2015)
+
+Switch to Versioneer for version-string management (fixing the broken
+`ecdsa.__version__` attribute). Add Curve.openssl_name property. Mention
+secp256k1 in README, test against OpenSSL. Produce "wheel" distributions. Add
+py3.4 and pypy3 compatibility testing. Other minor fixes.
+
 * Release 0.11 (10 Mar 2014)
 
 Add signature-encoding functions "sigencode_{strings,string,der}_canonize"