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@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ included in the vX.Y.Z section and be denoted as:
 Trunk (not on release branches yet)
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+- Add missing MPI_Get_address implementation in the Fortran "mpi"
+  module for gfortran.  Thanks to Hugo Gagnon for identifying the issue.
 - Add support for MPI_Dist_graph functionality (MPI 2.2).
 - Do not build the MPI C++ bindings by default.  They must be enabled
   via --enable-mpi-cxx.