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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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Subject: PG 18 release notes draft committed
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I have committd the first draft of the PG 18 release notes.  The item
count looks strong:

	release-7.4:  263
	release-8.0:  230
	release-8.1:  174
	release-8.2:  215
	release-8.3:  214
	release-8.4:  314
	release-9.0:  237
	release-9.1:  203
	release-9.2:  238
	release-9.3:  177
	release-9.4:  211
	release-9.5:  193
	release-9.6:  214
	release-10:   189
	release-11:   170
	release-12:   180
	release-13:   178
	release-14:   220
	release-15:   184
	release-16:   206
	release-17:   182
	release-18:   209

I will continue improving it until beta 1, and until the final release. 
I will probably add markup in 1-3 weeks.  Let the feedback begin.  ;-)

You can see the most current HTML-built version here:

	https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-18.html

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