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+## 0.8.0 / 2014-09-04
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Stagger scrapes to spread out load.
+* [BUGFIX] Correctly quote HTTP Accept header.
+
 ## 0.7.0 / 2014-08-06
 * [FEATURE] Added new functions: abs(), topk(), bottomk(), drop_common_labels().
 * [FEATURE] Let console templates get graph links from expressions.
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-0.7.0
+0.8.0