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+ o Add APIs to have libssh2 automatically send keep-alive requests.
+   The APIs are libssh2_keepalive_config, and libssh2_keepalive_send.
+   By Simon Josefsson.
+
 * (February 15 2010) Daniel Stenberg:
 - Added 46 new man pages for public convenience macros. The man pages  are
   just short redirects to the actual underlying function. The were all