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@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ Trunk (not on release branches yet)
 1.2.7 (might never be released)
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-- Nothing new yet.
+- Fix a deadlock in inter-communicator scatter/gather operations.
+  Thanks to Martin Audet for the bug report.  See ticket #1268.
 
 
 1.2.6