diff --git a/changelog.d/10269.bugfix b/changelog.d/10269.bugfix
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+Handle inbound events from federation asynchronously.
diff --git a/changelog.d/10269.misc b/changelog.d/10269.misc
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-Add a distributed lock implementation.