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@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel Stenberg (26 Mar 2010)
+- Ben Greear brought code that makes the rate limiting code for the easy
+  interface a bit smoother as it introduces sub-second sleeps during it and it
+  also takes the buffer sizes into account.
+
 Daniel Stenberg (24 Mar 2010)
 - Bob Richmond: There's an annoying situation where libcurl will read new HTTP
   response data from a socket, then check if it's a timeout if one is set. If
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Curl and libcurl 7.20.1
 This release includes the following changes:
 
  o The 'ares' subtree has been removed from the source repository
+ o smoother rate limiting
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes: