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-## Copyright (C) Mellanox Technologies Ltd. 2001-2015.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
-## Copyright (C) UT-Battelle, LLC. 2014-2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
-## Copyright (C) ARM Ltd. 2017-2018.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
+## Copyright (C) Mellanox Technologies Ltd. 2001-2019.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
+## Copyright (C) UT-Battelle, LLC. 2014-2019. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
+## Copyright (C) ARM Ltd. 2017-2019.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
 ##
 ## See file LICENSE for terms.
 ##
 #
 
 ## Current
+
+## 1.7.0-rc1 (October 28, 2019)
 Features:
-- TBD
+- Added support for multiple listening transports
+- Added UCT socket-based connection manager transport
+- Updated API for UCT component management
+- Added API to retrieve the listening port
+- Added UCP active message API
+- Removed deprecated API for querying UCT memory domains
+- Refactored server/client examples
+- Added support for dlopen interception in UCM
+- Added support for PCIe atomics
+- Updated Java API: added support for most of UCP layer operations
+- Updated support for Mellanox DevX API
+- Added multiple UCT/TCP transport performance optimizations
+- Optimized memcpy() for Intel platforms
+
+Bugfixes:
+- Multiple bugfixes in UCP, UCT, UCM libraries
+- Multiple fixes for BSD and Mac OS systems
+- Fixes for Clang compiler
+- Fixes for CUDA IPC
+- Fix CPU optimization configuration options
+
+## 1.6.1 (September 23, 2019)
+Features:
+- Added Bull Atos HCA device IDs
+- Added Azure Pipelines testing
+
+Bugfixes:
+- Multiple static checker fixes
+- Remove pkg.m4 dependency
+- Multiple clang static checker fixes
+- Fix mem type support with generic datatype
 
 ## 1.6.0 (July 17, 2019)
 Features:
@@ -90,7 +122,7 @@ Tested configurations:
 Features:
 - Improved support for installation with latest ROCm
 - Improved support for latest rdma-core
-- Adding support for CUDA IPC for intra-node GPU
+- Added support for CUDA IPC for intra-node GPU
 - Added support for CUDA memory allocation cache for mem-type detection
 - Added support for latest Mellanox devices
 - Added support for Nvidia GPU managed memory