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@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ Trunk (not on release branches yet)
 1.3 (not released yet)
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+- Added "notify debugger on abort" feature. See tickets #1509 and #1510.
+  Thanks to Seppo Sahrakropi for the bug report.
 - Upgraded Open MPI tarballs to use Autoconf 2.63, Automake 1.10.1,
   Libtool 2.2.6a.
 - Added missing MPI::Comm::Call_errhandler() function.  Thanks to Dave