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 Synapse 1.59.1 (2022-05-18)
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-This release fixes a long-standing issue which could prevent Synapse's user directory for updating properly.
+This release fixes a long-standing issue which could prevent Synapse's user directory from updating properly.
 
 Bugfixes
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