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 Release History
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+2.12.1 (2016-11-16)
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+**Bugfixes**
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+- Updated setuptools 'security' extra for the new PyOpenSSL backend in urllib3.
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+**Miscellaneous**
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+- Updated bundled urllib3 to 1.19.1.
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 2.12.0 (2016-11-15)
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