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+### citus v8.1.0 (December 17, 2018) ###
+
+* Turns on ssl by default for new installations of citus
+
+* Restricts SSL Ciphers to TLS1.2 and above
+
+* Adds support for INSERT INTO SELECT..ON CONFLICT/RETURNING via coordinator
+
+* Adds support for round-robin task assignment for queries to reference tables
+
+* Adds support for SQL tasks using worker_execute_sql_task UDF with task-tracker
+
+* Adds support for VALIDATE CONSTRAINT queries
+
+* Adds support for disabling hash aggregate with HLL
+
+* Adds user ID suffix to intermediate files generated by task-tracker
+
+* Only allow transmit from pgsql_job_cache directory
+
+* Disallows GROUPING SET clauses in subqueries
+
+* Removes restriction on user-defined group ID in node addition functions
+
+* Relaxes multi-shard modify locks when enable_deadlock_prevention is disabled
+
+* Improves security in task-tracker protocol
+
+* Improves permission checks in internal DROP TABLE functions
+
+* Improves permission checks in cluster management functions
+
+* Cleans up UDFs and fixes permission checks
+
+* Fixes crashes caused by stack size increase under high memory load
+
+* Fixes a bug that could cause maintenance daemon panic
+
 ### citus v8.0.2 (December 13, 2018) ###
 
 * Fixes a bug that could cause maintenance daemon panic
@@ -144,7 +182,7 @@
 
 * Removes broadcast join logic
 
-* Deprecates `large_table_shard_count` and `master_expire_table_cache()`  
+* Deprecates `large_table_shard_count` and `master_expire_table_cache()`
 
 * Modifies master_update_node to lock write on shards hosted by node over update