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-## 1.5.0 rc2 (February 8, 2019)
+## 1.5.0 (February 14, 2019)
 Features:
 - New emulation mode enabling full UCX functionality (Atomic, Put, Get)
   over TCP and RDMA-CORE interconnects which don't implement full RDMA semantics