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### Contributions
-At this time we are looking for developers to help fix the issues found in the issue tracker. Submit pull requests once you've polished up your patch and we'll review and possibly merge it.
+At this time we are looking for developers to help fix the issues found in the issue tracker.
+Submit pull requests once you've polished up your patch and we'll review and possibly merge it.
+
+Most pull requests will need to include a release note.
+See docs/newsfragments/README.md for documentation of how to do that.
## Distro specific packages
diff --git a/doc/QtCodeStyle.xml b/doc/QtCodeStyle.xml
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diff --git a/doc/newsfragments/README.md b/doc/newsfragments/README.md
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+This is the directory for news snippets used by towncrier: https://github.com/twisted/towncrier
+
+When changing code in a way that's visible to an end user please make a new file in this directory.
+It will be removed and integrated into release notes document upon a release of a new version of
+Barrier.
+
+towncrier has a few standard types of news fragments, signified by the file extension. These are:
+
+.feature: Signifying a new feature.
+.bugfix: Signifying a bug fix.
+.doc: Signifying a documentation improvement.
+.removal: Signifying a deprecation or removal of public API.
diff --git a/doc/newsfragments/build-failure-mipsel-riscv.bugfix b/doc/newsfragments/build-failure-mipsel-riscv.bugfix
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+++ b/doc/newsfragments/build-failure-mipsel-riscv.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix build failure on mips*el and riscv64 architecture.
diff --git a/doc/newsfragments/configuration-reading-non-ascii-windows.bugfix b/doc/newsfragments/configuration-reading-non-ascii-windows.bugfix
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+++ b/doc/newsfragments/configuration-reading-non-ascii-windows.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed reading of configuration on Windows when the paths contain non-ASCII characters (https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/976, https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/974, https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/444).
diff --git a/doc/newsfragments/drop-target--option.feature b/doc/newsfragments/drop-target--option.feature
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+Added `--drop-target` option that improves drag and drop support on Windows when Barrier is being run as a portable app.
diff --git a/doc/newsfragments/gui-hotkey-multiple-actions.bugfix b/doc/newsfragments/gui-hotkey-multiple-actions.bugfix
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+Fixed setup of multiple actions associated with a hotkey.
diff --git a/doc/newsfragments/gui-hotkey-special-keys-handling.bugfix b/doc/newsfragments/gui-hotkey-special-keys-handling.bugfix
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+Fixed setup of hotkeys with special characters such as comma and semicolon (https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/778).
diff --git a/doc/newsfragments/keyboard-backlight-media-keys.feature b/doc/newsfragments/keyboard-backlight-media-keys.feature
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+Added support for keyboard backlight media keys
diff --git a/doc/newsfragments/muhenkan-eisu-toggle-keys.feature b/doc/newsfragments/muhenkan-eisu-toggle-keys.feature
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+Added support for Eisu_toggle and Muhenkan keys
diff --git a/doc/newsfragments/non-ascii-character-transfer.bugfix b/doc/newsfragments/non-ascii-character-transfer.bugfix
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+Fixed transfer of non-ASCII characters coming from a Windows server in certain cases (https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/527).
diff --git a/doc/newsfragments/profile-dir-option.feature b/doc/newsfragments/profile-dir-option.feature
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+Added `--profile-dir` option that allows to select custom profile directory.
diff --git a/doc/newsfragments/regenerate-broken-server-cert.bugfix b/doc/newsfragments/regenerate-broken-server-cert.bugfix
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+Barrier will now regenerate server certificate if it's invalid instead of failing to launch (https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/802)
diff --git a/doc/newsfragments/use-theme-icons.bugfix b/doc/newsfragments/use-theme-icons.bugfix
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+Theme icons are now preferred to icons distributed together with Barrier (https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/471).