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+# Eris-DB changelog
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+## 0.12.0
+
+- Features
+
+
+- Tool changes  
+  - use glide instead of godeps for dependencies
+
+
+- General Codebase
+  - upgrade to Tendermint 0.6.0
+
+
+- Bugfixes
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+- Testing
+
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+- Documentation
+
+## 0.11.4 - _2016-04-29_