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+v0.8.17-head 2014-xx-xx  The Irssi team <staff@irssi.org>
+	+ Document that SSL connections aren't properly handled during /UPGRADE. See Github PR #39.
+	+ Synchronize scripts with scripts.irssi.org.
+	+ Performance enhancement of the nicklist as well as the window_item_find function. See Github PR #24.
+	+ Disallow unloading of static modules.
+	+ Allow UTF-8 characters in /bind. See Github PR #18.
+	- Fixed various compiler warnings.
+	- Fixed format_get_text Perl API. See Github PR #23.
+	- Fixed gui_printtext_after and term_refresh_*() visibility. See Github PR #22.
+	- Fixed issue where UTF-8 characters was corrupted once for every 32k text. See Github PR #12.
+
 v0.8.16 2014-05-28  The Irssi team <staff@irssi.org>
 	+ Add -noautosendcmd to /SERVER and /CONNECT. Passing this option will
 	  force Irssi to not execute the content of the autosendcmd chatnet-setting