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@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Changes in synapse v0.11.1 (2015-11-20)
 
 * Add extra options to search API (PR #394)
 * Fix bug where we did not correctly cap federation retry timers. This meant it
-  hours for servers to start talking to ressurected servers, even when they
-  were receiving traffic from them (PR #393)
+  could take several hours for servers to start talking to ressurected servers,
+  even when they were receiving traffic from them (PR #393)
 * Don't advertise login token flow unless CAS is enabled. This caused issues
   where some clients would always use the fallback API if they did not
   recognize all login flows (PR #391)