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+Thu Sep 09 2021 Łukasz Plewa <lukasz.plewa@intel.com>
+
+	* Version 1.9.3-rc1
+	This release fixes a missing sfence in non-temporal
+	version of memcpy function
+	(https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/issues/5292),
+	and fixes a number of smaller bugs.
+
+	Detailed list of bug fixes:
+	- common: fix missing sfence in non-temporal memcpy
+	- common: fix mismatched function args
+	- common: fix a mismatch between prototype and body
+	- common: the yearly spellchecker run
+	- common: force no LTO for rpm build
+	- rpmem: Fix RPMEM_RAW_BUFF_SIZE and LANE_ALIGN_SIZE for powerpc64le
+
 Wed Oct 28 2020 Piotr Balcer <piotr.balcer@intel.com>
 
 	* Version 1.9.2
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+1.9.3-rc1