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 4.0.4 -- May, 2020
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+- Add checks to avoid conflicts with a libevent library shipped with LSF.
+- Switch to linking against libevent_core rather than libevent, if present.
+- Add improved support for UCX 1.9 and later.
 - Fix an ABI compatibility issue with the Fortran 2008 bindings.
   Thanks to Alastair McKinstry for reporting.
 - Fix an issue with rpath of /usr/lib64 when building OMPI on